In which Ash gets their winter coat and comes out as a NB lesbian

They have the NB flag in their ref, and I do think they are NB, but canonically, they never come to realize it. Partly because they never got their winter coat, a mark in a arctic fox's life where their appearance is changed forever.

I also cannot ignore the implication of finding one's culture, that has been destroyed and taken away from them since birth and finding their gender at the same time as something irrelevant in this case;