1. How long can you go without eating meat?
Probably indefinitely.
2. Would you ever consider becoming vegetarian?
IRL? It's mostly just a problem of access and education. Vegan/Vegetarian diets can be waaay more tasty than meat-based ones if you know what you're doing and have the energy to do...
I do sincerely wish that authors would tag 'Male Protagonist' more often. Some do, but of a lot of stories that have them don't bother, so if I filter it out, large portions of my results are still stories with male protagonists. That's annoying to me. Also while I understand the distinction...
I would just have to drop it. In fact there was a story I quite liked on here that went that route just a few weeks ago, but now it might as well just not exist anymore. I don't like webnovel, and I'm certainly not going to jump through their silly little hoops to unlock their premium content...
I think just Lycan would be fine. I've seen Luperan used, and wolf-kin. I would avoid Lycanthrope, because that implies that the character has lycanthropy, which is the name of the infection that turns people into werewolves.
I wonder what the actual gender bender genre is supposed to be, yeah? To me, having read a fair amount of gender bender and also being trans myself, I think it's something different from a character simply being trans or going through gender transition. I think that the gender bender genre is...
I think there's an important distinction to be drawn between the different genres of yuri and lesbian romance, even if they get muddled on this site. Yuri in anime and Japanese novels is fundamentally intended for a male audience - it's written and directed to appeal to heterosexual male tastes...