Is it bad that I'm now reminded of the werewolves of the Twilight series? All of them are male, except for Leah Clearwater who is regularly trashed by the other characters and the narrative and is declared "not female" because becoming a werewolf has made her infertile. Whereas the male werewolves can procreate with human women as easily as they please. So, yes, the men can run around as werewolves for eternity and produce children, but women can't. And the one female werewolf of the series is denounced as a freak. It's not a good sign when the double standards of this book are reminding me of the double standards of Twilight.