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Maybe? You can now use any hair style on any gendered inkling or octoling now so that might have something to do with it.
While this is the case (and it includes legwear), this does no change the fact that Inklings and Octolings are still male and female in-game. The illusion of "gender-change" is there but some stuff cannot be modified.
I imagine most Kiwis here haven't tried the new demo yet (or ever will), but while the Nintendo of America devs have turned "gender" options into "style" options yet again, Splatoon characters are defined by their sexial dimorphism and it shows.
This is most obvious in Octolings, as female Octolings' eyemasks have a dash you do not see on males.
It might not be the case for Inklings, as their eyemask is always the same regardless of gender, but even before the demo's release someone was autistic enough to elaborate this eyebrow chart illustrating how males have bigger/sharper eyebrow variants in comparison to their female counterparts regardless of species. There is also their voiceclips, which cannot be hand-picked, so you will also know species and gender that way.
Sadly, they made character animations unisex in Splatoon 3, so all of them are animated more or less the same, but in previous games that was also a way of telling.
TL;DR, Splatoon isn't like Animal Crossing where "style" can prevail over "gender" because the character base didn't have any sexual dimorphism to begin with.
I imagine most Kiwis here haven't tried the new demo yet (or ever will), but while the Nintendo of America devs have turned "gender" options into "style" options yet again, Splatoon characters are defined by their sexial dimorphism and it shows.
This is most obvious in Octolings, as female Octolings' eyemasks have a dash you do not see on males.
It might not be the case for Inklings, as their eyemask is always the same regardless of gender, but even before the demo's release someone was autistic enough to elaborate this eyebrow chart illustrating how males have bigger/sharper eyebrow variants in comparison to their female counterparts regardless of species. There is also their voiceclips, which cannot be hand-picked, so you will also know species and gender that way.
TL;DR, Splatoon isn't like Animal Crossing where "style" can prevail over "gender" because the character base didn't have any sexual dimorphism to begin with.