Was Anne Rice born male?

https://bellnight.wordpress.com/2013/01/31/anne-rice-wait-a-second-thats-not-her-real-name/

>Here are some interesting facts that you may not have known about Anne Rice: Her name isn’t originally Anne Rice. Her name at Birth was Howard Allen Frances O’Brien. This is what Anne Rice had to say about her name – “Well, my birth name is Howard Allen because apparently my mother thought it was a good idea to name me Howard. My father’s name was Howard, she wanted to name me after Howard, and she thought it was a very interesting thing to do. She was a bit of a Bohemian, a bit of mad woman, a bit of a genius, and a great deal of a great teacher. And she had the idea that naming a woman Howard was going to give that woman an unusual advantage in the world.”