I'd of named my Character Blaise and it'd still be a female mithra. I'd call it RickyBobby and make it a female Mithra. For every person who tries to match their name to the sex of the race they chose on an MMO, theres 1000 people who name it their favorite thing or the name they've used on every MMO before it.

I Personally didn't look at races and go "Imma be Hume Male cause it fits my name he best", I wanted to play THF, so I Picked Mithra as it was the best race for the job back then. I named it Karbuncle cause at the time, Carby was my favorite Avatar from FF8 and I was a FF nerd, I was also like 12, so, yah, creativity wasn't completely on my pallet yet.

Either way, If i could change my name, i wouldn't, I don't think many people would no matter how silly their name is, because its their identity. Plus, IDK If you've seen some Server-hop LS Bank drama from back in the day? No amount of Name/Server changing is erasing your identity, your a** is still getting found by someone. Theres one dude who's created new characters even and is still tracked for the sh*t he pulled.

IDK why someone would be crazy for 'Changing gender' in an MMO as a joke... Or why It'd be a bad thing? I mean, seriously, what harm does it bring to you if your friend went from a Galka to a Mithra, are you going to have funny feelings in your special place cause it has majestic pixel boobs now instead of manly Galka boobs?

Regardless, I see what your fear is, but everything you're afraid of already happens in FFXI, and depending on the price, no ones going to rip off some random dude and pay to change their race/name, effectively erasing their identity, when they could probably just buy the gil for cheaper (If they're ripping people off for gil they've likely considered doing that anyway). Even if they did go through with this identity change, and they were part of a LS, each of the LS members would have to be okay with the rip off or someone will out them... or their friends, so forth, unless they were dropping that too.

The chances are miniscule at this point, and they could just add a 1 month timer on it like Server hopping. limiting the amount of frequent name changes and so forth. Or they could just as easily make it a "One time Deal", like Item restoration.

P.S if this comes off as a bit rude, sorry, I make jokes, sometimes at others expense, Don't mean too, just happens. You're an allright guy Daems just saying you're fear of what this could bring is wholly irrational.