Gender change at LTO

WITHOUT going through the costly and risky surgical procedure, a long-time friend who has three grown-up children got one of the biggest shocks in her life a few weeks ago when she became a male, courtesy of an incompetent employee of the Land Transportation Office (LTO).

My friend has breached the golden age as a female. While some men wear long hair like hers, and moves as demure as she does, how can her name Maria Cristina be mistaken for a man?