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:
TAYLOR v. ATLANTIC MARITIME CO. et al.
No. 119, Docket 21498.
United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit.
Motion Submitted March 20, 1950.
Decided April 6, 1950.
Vernon S. Jones, for the movant.
Before L. HAND, Chief Judge, and SWAN and CLARK, Circuit Judges.
PER CURIAM.
The order of February 9, 1950, entered by the clerk of this court, which reversed the judgment of the district court, 86 F.Supp 496, and remanded the action for further proceedings in accordance with our opinion, 179 F.2d 597, was inadvertent and premature; and an order must go, vacating that order and reinstating the appeal in this court to await the substitution under Rule 9 of the proper successor. Considering the difficulties which the attorney for the plaintiff has already experienced in communicating with the parties in interest, we will allow until June 10, 1950, for such a substitution. If no substitution has taken place on or before that day, the clerk will enter an order dismissing the appeal, and the judgment of the district court will stand; if a substitution has been made, the clerk will enter an order, as before, reversing the judgment of dismissal of the district court and remanding the cause for further proceedings in accordance with our opinion of January 23, 1950.
We will not certify the question to the Supreme Court. We have not for many years certified questions except in cases where the point was involved in another appeal, already pending in that court. In view of the frequency with which we are asked to exercise this power, it may not be amiss to advise the bar that we can see no reason for imposing an appeal upon the Supreme Court, which it does not choose to take of its own motion, except in cases when no petition for certiorari is available to the aggrieved party. It is not for us to decide what matters are of enough importance to require decision by that court; the control of its docket should rest exclusively in its own hands.

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