Eeeeeeeehhh its complicated. Gender and sex are different, but are sometimes used interchangeably. Male and female isn't strictly AGAB in all circumstances. The sex field on all my documents says female, despite the circumstances of my birth. Many trans women self describe as female, while others don't.

Transphobes often say female as an attempt to be exclusionary of trans people. Misogynists often say females, because calling half the population women implies we are people. Generally its a bad sign when someone says "female" as a noun.

But female as an adjective is pretty normal. A male model or a female engineer is a perfectly normal and fine way to describe people.