This was a difficult bug to solve. Apparently some plugins don't like to be loaded into a scene with the person atom off. I had to disable the plugins on the male person, and set a one-time relay to enable them when the "switch gender" button is pressed so that they do not break the scene on scene load.
An alternative would have been to have both genders on simultaneously, but that eats FPS. I'm glad I could solve this issue for you all.