Lord English gendered the trolls based on stingers because he had a book lying around called “How to Sex Bees”
i’d completely fuckin forgotten about it by the time I made this post but there is actually a joke in Homestuck where Caliborn thinks to ‘sex’ something is to have sex with it hghjghg
…actually this conversation has some genuine relevance to sex in trolls, because the very next thing Caliborn says is this;
which is pretty indicative of Caliborn’s attitude towards gendering his subjects.