Why do people want Link to be a girl?

[Torillian]

illdill1987 said:

Torillian said:

I don't believe Gannon is in every game is he?  and Zelda isn't as she wasn't in the most recent title to my knowledge (Legend of Zelda Triforce Heroes).  Seems like the developers are willing to change quite a bit and make it work within the mythos they've created, this would just be another small change.  Just take "young boy" and change it to "hero" and bam. 

good example with triforce heroes... Do a spin off game like that with a female character. I dont play the spin off games anyway. Every main game is the same hero being reborn, reincarnated... If you were a male in a past life you are not reborn female thats not how reincarnation works.

I'm going to need a reference for that last statement.  Since one can be reincarnated as a completely different species in some religions I doubt that gender is an uncrossable barrier.