Well, a table can play how they want. So long as it doesn't come up, no one should care.
However, I'd note that if someone wanted to play a Red Sonja character, and rolled a natural 18, it would seem ... odd to have her required to limit herself. Racial limits on abilities are slightly different; one can argue that they are required for game balance reasons (I'm not saying that this is correct, or not correct, and Gygax was notoriously human-centric) - but the gender limitations doesn't have a meaningful in-game "balance," (in other words, there are no corresponding advantages to playing a female character, or disadvantages to playing a male character). To the extent that it is justified by realism, well, dragons can fly, armor re-sizes itself, and everyone (with one exception!) ignores the weapon v. AC tables.
Anyway, given my decades of playing 1e, and given Gygax's occasional less-than-enlightened comments on gender (he was a product of his times), I think that this a rule best consigned to the dustbin of history. YMMV.
