Did we have a gender before we were born?

There's [another post that talks about something similar](https://islam.stackexchange.com/questions/37685/does-a-soul-have-a-gender) but I could not get the answer to whether we were males and females before we were assigned bodies and sent into this world. We do see references to us being husbands and wives in Paradise, so that means that the gender from this world will somehow continue in the afterlife, but my question is more about the life *before* this life.