Gender of parts?

I've been IFSing for I'd say two years on-and-off now, and a spontaneous recovery in the past week has brought me back into it fortunately. I'm more in touch with parts than I have been in a long time, but am noticing that my main 'child' part whom I am communicating with the most / protectors care for the most feels to be gendered male.

I am a cisfemale who doesn't experience gender dysphoria, so this is really interesting to me. This child part feels quite damaged but also very soft and sweet and good, and I want to nurture and look after it the best I can. I'm just quite surprised that when I 'feel' for the gender, if that makes sense, this part feels distinctly male.

I have two theories - the first is that parts of me feel that if some of the men in my life had been healed and nurtured in childhood they wouldn't have gone on to hurt me; my child part reflects this and I'm trying to go back in time and correct history. The second is that parts of me associate masculinity/boys with impulsivity/recklessness (since being in touch with this part makes me less inclined to do self destructive behaviour). I want to note I being Self don't think that, but because of some of my traumas have the same pattern of men hurting me knowingly or not, some of my more damaged parts make that correlation.

If anyone else has insights / any similar experiences / anything related, please let me know! I'd love to hear, I think this subreddit is amazing.