Ranma's woman sort seems to be like a catgirl in some fanservicey formal art. She isn't going to know if she was a human female or a feminine panther prior to the alteration. It is finally unveiled that she was a human woman. She's also a Lipstick Lesbian (in reality, one particular difficulty disclosed that the males and females of her species have a deep instinctive aversion to every other except through mating year).