Re: Pathfinder?
Ha! That's the first time I've been called a bumpkin. Still, appropriate for premodern settings, especially if you have Randomly Scottish Dwarves, which seems to be a thing now.
See, that feels far too "animal" to me as well, like you wouldn't say "There's a male at the bar asking to see you" or "she's a nice female," it sounds like you're going to try and breed them like guinea pigs. Plus a whole load of assumptions/meta reveals when it comes to races that aren't particularly sexually dimorphic (or don't have reproductive capacity, but might have picked a gender, like constructs).
I do tend to have elves refer to humans like that, though, just to show how species-centric referring to your race with people terminology and others with generic animal terminology is. I don't mind practicing ways to get out of that kind of jam, though. Referring to folk by profession/perception and then slipping a pronoun in generally works for description (e.g. "the stranger pulled her hatbrim a little lower, leaning on the bar to wait), and if any situation comes up where gender matters more than species in a mixed group there's always catchall generics, e.g. "guys, these are your baths, ladies, down the hall..."