What follows is an opinion from a United States Court of Appeals.
Intervenors who participated as parties at the courts of appeals should be counted as either appellants or respondents when it can be determined whose position they supported. For example, if there were two plaintiffs who lost in district court, appealed, and were joined by four intervenors who also asked the court of appeals to reverse the district court, the number of appellants should be coded as six.
When coding the detailed nature of participants, use your personal knowledge about the participants, if you are completely confident of the accuracy of your knowledge, even if the specific information is not in the opinion. For example, if "IBM" is listed as the appellant it could be classified as "clearly national or international in scope" even if the opinion did not indicate the scope of the business. 

Your task concerns the first listed appellant. The nature of this litigant falls into the category "natural person (excludes persons named in their official capacity or who appear because of a role in a private organization)". Your task is to determine the gender of this litigant. Use names to classify the party's sex only if there is little ambiguity (e.g., the sex of "Chris" should be coded as "not ascertained").

Opinion:
UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Geane DOBY, Defendant-Appellant.
Nos. 88-2000, 88-2030.
United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.
Argued Feb. 22, 1989.
Decided April 13, 1989.
Eileen A. Kamerick, Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom, Chicago, Ill., for defendant-appellant.
Gwenn R. Rinkenberger, Asst. U.S. Atty., Hammond, Ind., for plaintiff-appel-lee.
Before WOOD, Jr., and MANION, Circuit Judges, and FAIRCHILD, Senior Circuit Judge.
PER CURIAM.
Geane Doby, along with several others, burned down a house in Gary, Indiana. During the arson, one of Doby’s fellow arsonists was severely burned; he died a short time later.
A grand jury charged Doby with violating 18 U.S.C. § 844(i), which provides:
[wjhoever maliciously damages or destroys ... by means of fire or an explosive, any building ... used in interstate or foreign commerce or in any activity affecting interstate or foreign commerce ... and if death results to any person ... as a direct or proximate result ... shall ... be subject to imprisonment for any term of years, or to the death penalty or life imprisonment as provided in [18 U.S.C. § 34].
Doby eventually pleaded guilty to the arson charge on the condition that he be allowed to contest whether federal jurisdiction existed over the arson.
The house that Doby and his compatriots had burned was a two-unit house. The owner, Mohamed Shaker, had lived in the first story unit with his family, and had rented the second story unit to different tenants. At the time of the arson (committed at Shaker’s behest), the entire home was vacant and in need of rehabilitation work as a result of vandalism that had occurred during a series of burglaries at the house. Although the house was vacant, Shaker had never taken it off the rental market; he intended to repair the damage to the house and rent the upstairs unit.
Doby contended that the house was not a building “used in interstate or foreign commerce or in any activity affecting interstate or foreign commerce” and that the arson therefore did not meet § 844(i)’s federal jurisdictional requirement. The district court, in a succinct, well reasoned opinion, held that a sufficient interstate commerce nexus existed so that the arson did meet § 844(i)’s jurisdictional requirement. United States v. Doby, 684 F.Supp. 558 (N.D.Ind.1988). Doby appeals. Because we agree with the district court’s reasoning, we adopt its opinion as our own. We add only that because of the district court’s reasoning, we need not reach the government’s contention that the arson fell within § 841(i) because the home received natural gas from an out-of-state source.
Affirmed.

Question: This question concerns the first listed appellant. The nature of this litigant falls into the category "natural person (excludes persons named in their official capacity or who appear because of a role in a private organization)". What is the gender of this litigant?Use names to classify the party's sex only if there is little ambiguity.

Choices:
not ascertained
male - indication in opinion (e.g., use of masculine pronoun)
male - assumed because of name
female - indication in opinion of gender
female - assumed because of name

Answer: 2