Celebrim
Legend
I might be wrong, but I don't think biological sex ability caps were a thing in any edition.
Let's not derail the thread with this little bit of explosive controversy. In 1e AD&D fighters could have exceptional strength. The only gender restrictions the game has ever had was the maximum exceptional strength of starting fighter class character was limited by race and gender. Thus, female gnome fighters maximum strength was lower than male half-orcs fighters (but actually higher than all non-fighter half-orcs), and so forth. In practice, if you weren't cheating this probably never came up in your game, since fighter exceptional strength that was high enough to break the cap (and force you to play a male character) was exceptionally rare to begin with.
I personally don't think D&D is a system that is doing genre emulation that needs gender roles or realistic gender dimorphism hard coded into it. But I also really don't think it's something worth debating, because it always gets angry.