The decision was made quietly about three years later when my random political comics were being removed. Apparently someone must've been going through my gallery looking for "problematic" material to censor, and furries being functionally illiterate almost everything was still left untouched.
And remember this strip from the start of the series?
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Yes, this lioness is the "boyfriend" the hyena was referring to.
Some will complain I'm "misgendering" her; after all, she insists on male pronouns, has broad shoulders and muscular arms, a rather masculine face, a mane, not much breast tissue, etc. and is called a "cuntboy". Here's the thing though: In the Doylist sense, I am her creator and I know what her real sex is better than she does, if she denies it.
The lioness was designed as a stark contrast to my own fursona, decidedly male, intersex male with some feminine features and a conscious, cultivated personality of effeminate behavior. They are meant to exemplify extremes of being one sex while having "tells" and "signals" indicating the other sex quite strongly.
Dickgirls are a fantasy sex that exist only in porn. The term used to mean 99~% female characters who had a huge, huge penis-like clitoris fused with their urethra but not their vagina, and were able to issue some sort of semen-like discharge from it during orgasm despite not having testicles or (presumably) a prostate. Nowadays it seems to mean "Biological male with a superficially feminine build in terms of breasts, hips, face, and so on"
Cuntboys on the other hand are literally just females where all secondary and tertiary characteristics are masculine. The actual biological, anatomical essence of the difference is pure female. There's no shame in being a butch woman and very little shame in being an effete man.
This particular example of the latter has been gaslit her entire life to believe those secondary traits make her male, in spite of having a fully functional vagina, uterus, ovaries, etc. I seek to undo this as best I can with emotional support and facts-based reasoning, but this is undercut a little even in-universe by the fact that I'm very much attracted to tomboys and was suffering from pornsickness.
No amount of testosterone will turn a woman male. No amount of estrogen or surgical mangling of his crotch into a crude, vaguely-vaginal-looking open wound will turn a man female. It's okay to be more or less masculine or feminine than the norm for your sex. It's okay to like things that are normally preferred by the other sex. It's also okay to like things that are stereotypical of your sex, literally nothing wrong at all.
And the more boldly and openly I can speak on these things, the more my own dysphoria weakens as I embrace the masculine parts of myself that have been long suppressed.
And here's another little layer of irony for you: I usually draw anthro lionesses with manes anyway because those can be styled like human hair, of which women usually have more and longer. I generally do this even when using an artstyle where other species don't get "headfur" - the lions are just a hair more anthro in these cases.