No worries. It's definitely non-gendered. Some just don't like that concept though, because it makes them maybe think of it being hermaphroditic, so they assign it a gender. It has none though, to be sure.
“…Judge not what a man has done, but judge what he could have done if he was a different bloke altogether. For art thou a leper? And a leper can changeth his spots…” --Rudy Wade, Misfits (Series 4, Episode 8)