I haven’t read IT specifically, but I’ve read a lot of SK, and lot of stories in his shared universe(s) (not sure how many people have connected IT to Dark Tower, but wouldn’t surprise me), but knowing him I’d imagine IT isn’t male or female. It just is. Or, at the very least, it’s not something that really falls into human concepts of gender.
There is another similar creature in one of the late Dark Tower books but it feeds on laughter instead of fear. Does not seem nearly as powerful as Pennywise though, so maybe only tangentially related.
I haven’t read IT specifically, but I’ve read a lot of SK, and lot of stories in his shared universe(s) (not sure how many people have connected IT to Dark Tower, but wouldn’t surprise me), but knowing him I’d imagine IT isn’t male or female. It just is. Or, at the very least, it’s not something that really falls into human concepts of gender.
Given IT is one of its kind (afaik), it’s reproducing asexually, therefore no sex, but egg laying implies female sex (afaik).
There is another similar creature in one of the late Dark Tower books but it feeds on laughter instead of fear. Does not seem nearly as powerful as Pennywise though, so maybe only tangentially related.