Not Always Telling The Truth

In an earlier post FabianFred indicated a bodhisattva is never born a female.

If this is correct then women can never become bodhisattva & therefore also can never be a Buddha.

I wonder if there is any statement to that effect by the Buddha in the suttas? The number of former buddhas differs in different parts of the Canon, but I believe they were all male. However, that isn't the same as saying there could never be a female bodhisattva (in the Theravadin sense).

As for Mahayana, Tara is a female bodhisattva.