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>Portuguese, brazilian, spanish, latin american, french and italian dubs all refered to Dragonite as a female since her debut
>Dragonite is never treated as a female in japanese, and external material would often treat it as a male.
>When the distribution of Ash's pokémon got announced, Dragonite was shown to be male, but it got changed to female shortly before her distribution began
Dragonite's gender was irrelevant, so I wonder if it was just a last minute change to fit all the dubs that called Dragonite a "she"