User blog comment:Commdor/Vote for ME3's Female Shepard/@comment-84037-20110725013111/@comment-899316-20110725025825

Yeah, but BioWare doesn't. There is no canon Shepard, because Shepard is supposed to be different for each gamer. No canon Shepard has ever been established by the devs, and there probably never will be a canon Shepard.