Hi all, I do not have much to add, besides I am running a MgT2 Traveller game right now and made my own sector, To track everything I have set up a legendkeeper to share information with my players. There is also a ton of GM stuff in there but it is hidden and invisble. I thought this might be fun or inspiration for others too. edit I have no idea why the Link says "Attention required Cloudflare", link works fine.
Yes, when prepare NPC I always have dice determine gender/species/culture/etc to avoid my own biases. On the spot I atleast try to determine gender randomly.