Uhh...?

You don't know about Shiek and Zelda? Oh boy... See, Ocarina of Time has our dear princess hiding herself as an (apparent) male ninja going by Shiek. And it's like a plot point, not something which you can kinda skim over. Draw your own conclusions as to what objections can be made there.

I know that exists, but not the relevance to the itch rules? Also, there are other sheiks, too.

Oh, just that if one was really intent on certain targets, Nintendo has a LOT of options. It's weird once you start looking with an eye of crazy people intent on bending the rules to do whatever they want.