It certainly confuses Tarantulas, although he will not, he refuses to let his bewilderment hurt his beloved's feelings.

"I'm not sure what you mean by that," he says gently. "But then, the female gender was almost entirely forgotten on my homeworld by the time I was born. We reproduce without sexual relations, and as the population turned towards a male super-majority, many of our more...theocratically-inclined leaders began to push the theory that we had no gender at all. That it was a concept that applied only to organics."

He nuzzles her gently with his pedipalps. "Do you wish to be seen as female?"