Sentence:  these embodied female waters are actually present in full flood despite [...] the embrace of the English translation of "Father of Waters" [...]. This is to say that waters that are turbulent and torrential are not always <WSD>transsexualized</WSD> as males via the rhetorical strategies of birth (The Columbiad) or metamorphosis (The Johnstown Flood). They are also at times imaged as female. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  To cause (something such as an anthropomorphized natural phenomenon, like a flood) to have the opposite sex or gender.