Really?  Then why has the official church defined a major qualification for its priests by sexual orientation.  Men---yes.  Women---no.  

Jesus had disciples belonging to both genders.  The term 'apostle' was a relatively infrequent term used.  Mark, the earliest canonical Gospel, and John, the latest, never use the phrases 'The Twelve Apostles.'  Rather, they use 'the Twelve' absolutely, without further qualification or specification.  Mark, used the word 'apostolos' only once in his Gospel [6:30], when it referred to the Twelve when they returned from a temporary mission.  After that, the term disappears from the gospel.  Apparently, the word 'apostle' [in Aramaic---selihin = messenger or envoy], was used in an 'ad hoc' sense when the Twelve were sent out on a mission.  

Jesus gathered around himself a group of committed disciples, larger than twelve, and both men and women were sent out on preaching missions.