Sword making, particularly in the 21st century, seems hardly like a past time indicative of "gender nonconformity" LOL. Using one's metal working skills to make phallic weapons, especially in this day and age, strikes me as very male and masculinist in the most traditional of ways. And not the good ways, either, but in the throwback ways that associate males with violence, war and bloodthirstiness. The iron smiths and other metal workers I've known in the current century and the prior one have tended to focus on making things like furniture, fencing, gates, latticework, trellises, sculpture, fountains, grates, various forms architecture, parts for transportation vehicles (bike frames, car chassis, axels) and horse shoes. Swords not so much.