How many ways ways are there to skin a rabbit.
I don't have any problems listening or singing songs out of gender & I've never heard any complaints either.
Lylle Lovette does his "If I were the Man That you Wanted" & Nancy Griffin does a nnice job of it singing Woman instead of Man. I greatly enjoy singing "The Shearing's Nae For You" & it's been received well too. No chance of going to the third person or changing gender here. The Johnson Girls along with other women shanty groups are well liked singing shanties that traditionally was a male genre. I guess I'm wondering why anyone would bother to get any of this much thought at all, there's so many ways to get around it, if you feel as if you need to.

Barry