This comes up pretty regularly here. I think we've pretty much discovered that this is completely personal preference and the number who like same sex therapists versus different sex therapists is about the same from what I've gathered.

I am a 50 year old woman and I have always preferred a male therapist. I've worked long-term with 3 male therapists over the years.

I am much more comfortable talking to a male therapist. I like their directness, their strength of presence, the way they respect my experience without pitying my experience.

I tried several female therapists, and every last one of them was to touchy-feely for me. They wanted to tell me their own histories I guess as a way of empathizing, but it came off as very invalidating because they seemed to be making my experience all about them. They seemed to pity me and treat me as fragile rather than honoring my strength.

We all need different things in our therapy, so we will have different preferences and perceptions of the therapists we work with.