It makes sense to change your name if you planned on changing your gender. I mean it won't look right if you were a female cat name Tiffany and switched over to a male cat and your name is still Tiffany. That's just weird. But IF ONLY the people who changes their characters gender are the only ones allowed to change their name, that isn't really quite fair to the other players that didn't want to change genders, now is it?