Le professeur m'a pointé du doigt, et m'a demandé de la suivre.

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#1
English Translation

The teacher pointed his finger at me and asked me to come with him.

A female teacher would be professeure or professeuse.

#2

Still on the topic of gender:

  • There is a gender mismatch between the English sentence and the French translation:

Since the teacher is a he, the French translation should be:
Le professeur m’a pointé du doigt, et m’a demandé de le suivre.

  • The English sentence tells us nothing about the gender of the speaker, but the past participle in the French sentence, m’a pointé, implies that the speaker is male.
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#3

There is a mismatch inside the french

[Le professeur] implies male.

{La} suivre implies female.

#4

Seeing this post pop up again has made me remember something. As you might be aware, there is a bit of a discussion in France about how (and if - although that seems a bit more settled) profession names should be made femenine (example of an article here, or here, the wikipedia article zbout it ). One of the arguments was, that the masculine generic included women, and, therefore, there was no need to use any femenine marking. One example on the topic that comes to mind was politicans, or rather ministers, being referred as “madame le ministre” (contraposed to “monsieur le ministre”).
So, although it could be a gender missmatch within the french sentence, it could actually just be that the translator was following this rule. Which would make it maybe a little outdated, bit not necesserily wrong.