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Snakes all have their own personality as far as these things go. I have a pair of grey banded kings, but no cal kings. Most colubrid behavior is pretty similar anyway though.
Are these snakes housed separately? If not, the female might be stressed being with the male, causing her to try to escape. Have you double checked temps, etc? I'd basically try to look for a reason for her to not want to be in her tank. Otherwise, if you can't find any problems, she may just be more active.
As for sexing - it can be done at any age, just with different techniques. For young animals, it's best to "pop" them to determine sex. For older animals with full muscle control, you can't really pop them without hurting them, so you must probe instead. To pop, you put your index finger on their back, just before the cloaca (towards head, not tail). Put your thumb on the underside of the tail, just past the cloaca. Gently push up from the tail to the cloaca, and if it's a male the hemipenis will "pop" out. To probe, you need to get ahold of a set of ball tipped sexing probes. Lube with KY jelly and insert from the cloaca, just off center, and down to the tail. If it bottoms out a few scales in, it's a female. If it goes deeper, it's a male. That said, you shouldn't try either technique until someone demonstrates it for you first. You don't want to hurt your snake!
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