I've done it in certain of my families where the birth order and gender are 'set'. Playing a family from a series I wrote, for one. Having a gender out-of-place sort of bugs me, you know? While it was easier to influence the gender prior to birth, (which we currently don't have), I've found using the cheat to change the gender just fine, so far. All I've chosen to do, for the most part, is click on the medical gender icon. Mostly, the genetics make the females have their father's hair color and the males, the mother's. But, if that's not what you want (because when you generate them in regular CAS, you get variations) you are free to change that out, too. If I know a family is to have a certain 'order' of birth/gender, I'll go ahead and name the child accordingly. I just had a family who had a set of twin boys as their 'second' child. I'd given them their identical twin sons in CAS, already. The second child (and all subsequent children are supposed to be singletons). I named the first one the intended girl's name and was surprised there was a twin. I chose to age 'her' up after only a couple of days as an infant, leaving her twin a baby, since he was already the correct gender in the order of things.
