Item Function Is Invalid

[IntoRain]

Do an output of the $gender variable to see what it's in there (if you do echo $gender it will appear at the top left of the screen, or make your variable $note equal to $gender). If $gender actually is "f" then the mistake is at the expression, if $gender is not "f" you know you are fetching gender in a wrong way. Sorry, I don't really know the syntax, but this is a simple way of searching where the mistake is

[Hwona]

Um, the gender might be "female" instead of "f"

Ok, I've tried swapping "f" with "female", but it's still not working... maybe I should try flipping the if and else?