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 ex rel. BUCHALTER v. WARDEN OF SING SING PRISON.
No. 319.
Circuit Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.
March 2, 1944.
Writ of Certiorari Denied March 4, 1944.
See 64 S.Ct. 633.
Before L. HAND, SWAN, and AUGUSTUS N. HAND, Circuit Judges.
J. Bertram Wegman, of New York City, for appellant.
James B. M. McNally, U.S. Atty., and Richard J. Burke and Peter J. Donoghue, Asst. U.S. Attys., all of New York City, for appellee.
L. HAND, Circuit Judge.
The relator appeals from an order of the district court refusing to issue a writ of habeas corpus to review his detention under the sentence of a state court of electrocution for murder. He had been convicted in a federal court of a federal crime, and was in custody in execution of its sentence. Being indicted for murder in the state court, the Attorney General of the United States brought him, still in the Attorney General’s custody, to the state court for trial. He was convicted, the Court of Appeals of New York has affirmed the conviction, 289 N.Y. 181, 45 N.E.2d 225, and the Supreme Court has in turn affirmed its judgment, 319 U.S. 427, 63 S.Ct. 1129. He has continuously protested against the legality of the Attorney General’s order bringing him to the state court, and he now protests against the surrender of his custody to the state authorities for execution of the sentence of the state court. These are the grounds of his application 'for the writ whose issuance the district court refused.
The Supreme Court decided in Ponzi v. Fessenden, 258 U.S. 254, 42 S.Ct. 309, 66 L.Ed. 607, 22 A.L.R. 879, that the Attorney General by virtue of his office could bring a convict—still in his custody— for trial for another crime in a state court; but it also said that upon conviction in the state court, the execution of its sentence would follow completed execution of the sentence of the federal court. In the case at bar, the Attorney General has gone further, and after conviction has surrendered custody of the prisoner to the state authorities for execution; and unless the sentence of the state court is commuted, he will be electrocuted, and will never serve the remainder of his federal sentence, which has not been commuted, as was the case in Chapman v. Scott, 2 Cir., 10 F.2d 690. Obviously, he has actually the greatest possible interest in serving the remainder of his federal sentence, and the only question is whether that is an interest which the law recognizes: i.e., whether it is a “right.” It is not; imprisonment is punishment exacted by the state; it gives the convict no asylum, temporary or permanent, against his prosecution or punishment for other crimes. If it was unlawful for the Attorney General to surrender custody of the prisoner, and to make impossible any further execution of the federal sentence, it was not a wrong for him, for that sentence was imposed only in the interest of the United States, not in any degree whatever as a benefit to the relator. He has been deprived of nothing to which he was entitled; if the United States has been so deprived, he may not vicariously assert its rights.'
Only on one theory could he complain. If his sentence should be so far commuted that he not only escaped electrocution, but was released from state custody, and if the federal authorities then should seek to imprison him for the remainder of his federal sentence, conceivably he might be able to argue that the separation of that sentence into parts so far changed it, as to make the remaining imprisonment illegal. We do not suggest that this would be a valid argument; we only say that if it were, the time to raise it would not come until the federal authorties sought once more to imprison him.
Order 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: 1