Good to hear that the significance of revelation written in human language, using gender pronouns, is open to discussion.  See CCC 239, 370, 2779 to get started.

The eternal Word preexisted the creation as a divine person, not as a human male.

The Incarnate Word is a divine person made human, "flesh," "body-soul," not just a male animal; else, women have not been redeemed, and should not be baptized.

What matters is *body-soul,* not sex (TOB 8:1ff);  unless, after 1563  years of uninterrupted tradition, Trent missed something essential in formulating the dogma on the sacramental priesthood of the New Law.

Melchizedek (Gn 14, Ps 110, Hebrews) did not have father or mother (7:1), was *eternal* and therefore preexisted the creation of sexual bodies (Gn 1-2), so it is a *symbol* that prefigures God the Son made flesh, but is not mentioned by either Trent or the 1994 Catechism, so apparently is not *essential* to understand the sacramental priesthood.

Good dialogue, let's keep going...