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** The third-party setting ''Oathbound'' has aurads, who appear male and reproduce via circle-jerking. (No, really.)
** In ''[[Pathfinder]]'', xills (a [[Captain Ersatz]] of [[Chest Burster|A.E. van Vogt's Ixtl]]) and thriae ([[Women's Mysteries|inscrutable seers]] based off of [[Bee People|bees]]) are all female. The [[Fish People|Deep One-inspired skum]] are all male.
* The Orks in ''[[Warhammer 40000]]'' (and possibly the Orcs in ''[[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]]'') seem to be all male, early [[Retcon|non-canonical]] references to female Orks notwithstanding; however, since Wh40k Orks are actually a type of animate ''fungus'' that reproduce via spores, attempting to assign a gender to them is basically an exercise in futility.
** [[Blood Bowl]] has [http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?catId=cat1290340&prodId=prod1560097 orc cheerleaders], which are female. Then again, [[Blood Bowl]] is essentially an alternate universe.
** According to one supplement, the the Gene-Seed—the stuff that makes [[Space Marines]] grow to nine-foot tall poison-drinking, car-lifting supermen—is [[Artistic License Biology|only compatible with male genetics]].
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* [[Xevoz]] gets hit hard with this one - six races, with two more added later on, and every single member is male, or at least lacking any distinct female traits (one race is [[Energy Beings]] after all). Unless you consider that ony the drones in an insect colony are male, and the two character types under the [[Big Creepy-Crawlies]] race are heavily implied to be soldiers rather than drones.
* While not technically a "race" in the usual sense, [[Eclipse Phase]]'s combat-tailored [[Amazon Brigade|Fury]] biomorphs are almost all female, in order to reduce unnecessary aggression.
* The Lizardmen in ''[[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]]'' are all males; they are born from spawning pools throughout Lustria, and were initially created by the Old Ones. Their war with the Skaven began when the Skaven poisoned one city's spawning pools.
* The Medusas of ''[[GURPS Banestorm]]'' are all female. They mate (carefully) with humans, elves, and orcs' males to produce offspring. The kids are usually medusas, but some are boys with a recessive medusa trait.
** [[Word of God]] says that the world of the Banestorm also has ''Euryales,'' a small all-female reptilian race, whose eggs are fertilized by eating their dead; and ''Sthenos,'' a much bigger all-female reptilian race, produced by a virus that infects human (or orc or elf) women, and spontaneously transforms them if they are violently injured.
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