Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-75.47.98.242-20161010052747/@comment-4010415-20161010065923

It's not that "so many" of the previous Maidens have been female. It's that literally ALL OF THEM have been female. Qrow saying "Unless they're a dude or some old hag. Then, the power goes to someone random" literally means what he said: If the last person in the Maiden's thoughts is male or an old woman, the powers choose a random young female. So, it doesn't matter what the situation was. If Jaune was in his mother's last thoughts, the powers would have gone to a random young female anywhere in Remnant.

The only way I can see Jaune having Maiden powers is if he was actually born with female genitalia and had a sex change somewhere along the way.

Because I'm pretty sure the powers are literal about the whole "females only" thing (and thus, Tumblr would scream "Transphobia!!!!").

By the way, Jaune has mentioned his mother before, in volume 1. He said his mom told him strangers are just friends you haven't met yet. Also, he said to Pyrrha that he told his parents (Parents, plural, mom and dad) that he was going to Beacon. So, yeah, Jaune's mother is not dead.

Maiden powers have nothing to do with Aura, and not knowing what Aura is wouldn't have any influence on how much he has.

Monty didn't come up with the idea for the Maidens until after they finished making volume 2, so Ozpin's silence in volume 1 does not mean "He has Maiden powers, Glynda, but I'm not going to tell you that."