Thank you for the feedback! The plan for the future is to have a town that the player can take items from, essentially allowing them to start with an already filled inventory.
In the next version I'll let the player spawn with a few basic items to "simulate" that.
Also, I should probably proofread everything again as my plan was to never directly refer to the player as male or female...
Oh! Nah, it wasn't in any dialogue, rather in the promps. Like when hovering the mouse over the status symbol it said something along the line of "you are female". Or like after eating a certain berry after being trapped with Ditto or the tentacles it said "you're male again". I assure you there's no gender/sex indication in the dialogues. Great job being gender neutral/sexless!