User blog comment:Grand Admiral Harmon/Island Thunder: Robert the Bruce vs Minamoto No Yoshitune/@comment-3189283-20160906170955/@comment-17814994-20160909134651

You don't have to worry about that. The naginata is a unisex weapon, and there are accounts that male samurais used them too since the  to the Period. Yoshitsune's second in command, Benkei, was said to have favored the naginata in battle.