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. Eddie Lee ROBINSON, Samuel Holt, Jr., and Jerome James Powell, Defendants-Appellants.
Nos. 19541, 19542 and 19543.
United States Court of Appeals Sixth Circuit.
Jan. 8, 1970.
David B. Rosenthal (court appointed), Detroit, Mich., for defendant-appellant Robinson.
Charles E. Fonville (court appointed), Detroit, Mich., for defendant-appellant Holt.
Cornelius Pitts (court appointed), Detroit, Mich., for defendant-appellant Powell.
Philo, Maki, Moore, Pitts, Ravitz, Glotta, Cockrel & Robb, by Cornelius Pitts, Otis & Rosenthal, by David B. Rosenthal, Detroit, Mich., on the brief for defendants-appellants.
Ralph B. Guy, Jr., Chief Asst. U. S. Atty., Dearborn, Mich., for plaintiff-ap-pellee; James H. Brickley, U. S. Atty., on the brief.
Before PHILLIPS, Chief Judge, PECK, Circuit Judge, and WEINMAN, District Judge.
Honorable Carl A. Weinman, Chief Judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, Western Division, sitting by designation.
PER CURIAM.
Defendants-appellants, who were at the time involved inmates of a Michigan penal institution, were indicted and convicted of the crime of sodomy and of assault to commit sodomy. The charge was made under a Michigan statute, and the sole issue on appeal is the claimed unconstitutionality of the Michigan statute, which claim is based on the fact that no distinction is made between acts forced upon the participants and those engaged in by consenting adults.
In the present cases the defendants’ defense was based upon their contentions that they were in other parts of the prison at the time of the alleged assaultive sodomy and did not participate in any way. In spite of this defense appellants allege a constitutional deprivation on the basis that had they been charged under a statute differentiating between forced and consensual acts they might have proceeded differently, from the point of view of defense strategy. We conclude, however, that on the basis of the record before us that the consensual defense would not have been available to any of the appellants, and we accordingly do not here reach the constitutional question, and specifically refrain from expressing any opinion with reference thereto.
The judgments of conviction of the District Court are 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