"Females" has become a thing around incels, them using it and others not liking their use of it. I think you're just spending too much time online or online in the wrong places.
Except that Im drawing from real world experiences
The chavs on the estate I used to hang with.
"Gangsters"
The old boy tilers that come to my tile shop.
TV intetviews with eye witnesses of whatever...
I mean I could go on.
Neither, it doesn't fit the context of the point I made.
David Attenborough uses Female a lot when describing animals ont telly.
He does not describe his daughter, wife, or sisters as 'The females'
I do wonder why the choice was made for Females and not Women though, gravitas?
Maybe that does fit my point.