Does the English words have specific a gender??

I know that might be a silly and weird question, but I just realized that some concepts of portuguese and english are completely opposed to each other. One of then is that, apparently your words don't have a specific gender (like male or female) which confuses me sometimes.

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WelshLovely · 46-50, F

No, English words don't have genders. In Spanish for example you would have el and la, in English we just have "the" which is neutral as are the words following it.

Arthur14 · 26-30, M

@WelshLovely I not gonna lie to you, sometimes this blow my mind. I catch myself using a ''female pronoun'' to describe a bird for example, because I always knew that a bird is a female word.