I don't care what gender the author is as long as the story hooks me in.
Maybe some readers don't try female fantasy authors is that there might associate them with books like Paranormal romance
I can't tell you how many people assume I'm writing YA, Paranormal Romance, or Urban Fantasy if they find out I'm female. It's annoying. I'm thinking about querying under a male name because of it.
I've actually had someone tell me I shouldn't write in the genre I write in because it's not "womanly"--despite the fact that all five of my current point-of view characters are female. I don't get it. Someone online has also said to me, "Women write YA, men write lit". ¯\_(?)_/¯
I just tell them, "If you don't like it, don't read it."
Thumbs up to you
@ThiefofHope. People shouldn't be assigned gender roles, or any other forms of roles/ discriminations, as long as you can do the job and carry it out properly. I'm not a woman, but I'm also tired of stereotypes and the discrimination in our current society. As long as one can do a job perfectly, who cares if they are male, female, of this religion, that ethnicity, LGBTQ or whatever? If you are better than the person next to you, you wholly deserved what you had right now. People should be free to do whatever is in their skills and passions, and our society should start caring less about whichever hole we crawled out off.
Alright, rant over.

Now as long as that you didn't need to directly depend on those who discriminate/ judges you, feel free to go ahead and tell them, "Sod off!" (pardon for the vulgarity, some people deserved it)