User blog comment:OnePieceNation/F*** Togashi and his gender ambiguous characters./@comment-5780397-20150331134110/@comment-25506276-20150331202100

There is no good reason to believe Pitou is "male in the manga". The only argument towards that idea is the databook, but the databook is old and retconned. You might as well argue that Maha is Zeno's father if you rely on that kind of thing,