I just heard someone claim that info a month ago in the "new castlevania" topic...I didn't frequent this site much in the months before pork, as you call it, came out.
All I know is that, on g-faqs people assumed PoR was a man and "she" personally corrected them, saying that she is a woman...why would a guy do that? To try and hide their identity? Maybe that's why--but then there is no more chance, either way, of PoR being a man or woman.