I'd agree if it wasn't that A) There's a button dedicated to it in the sidebar, and B) it comes up frequently in the update bulletins.
March 2nd: #6 Mattilde Feuillas overtook #7 Rebecca Chaneski, once again changing hands of the Women's title. Mattilde's 0.6 AF cut puts her 0.25 points behind #5 Douglas D, who was recently active in January, so he may defend his position. Mattilde reported 5 new times, three of which were new top-10s: eighth place on Sherbet 3lap, eighth in Jungle 3lap, and eighth in Castle 3lap. Her best time of the week was 6th place in Bowser's lap, a two-spot nudge. She now has 27/32 top-10 times and says that she will target Cruiser, Desert and Yoshi Circuit next week to try and get the five remaining ones. Meanwhile Rebecca reported three improvements. The coolest was a 1'26"9 Mario Circuit, fast enough for fifth place and a small win over Mattilde. She also improved both Wario Colosseum scores, grabbing sixth spot on the lap. Both girls are separated by 0.4 points, so the title is still up for grabs.
February 22nd: #6 Rebecca Chaneski is holding on the the Women's title, doing just enough to stay ahead of #7 Mattilde F. Rebecca's 0.2pt AF cut was a result of two new top-10 times on Colosseum that she didn't have before. Her 1'57"01 missed the a sub by only a little. Mattilde reported 5 PRs to make up for a lost week of no submissions where Rebecca got away. She improved both Sherbet times, both Jungle times, and raced a sixth place lap on Mushroom City. Her comparatively larger 0.5pt AF cut was not enough to pass Rebecca, but it was enough to come up close behind. Both girls passed former champion #8 Richard K.
February 16th: #7 Rebecca Chaneski slightly extended her lead on #8 Mattilde by improving her Peach Beach course time from 8th to 4th place. The gap between the two top women increased from 0.22 to 0.47. Rebecca is right on the heels of former champion #6 Richard K and will most likely surpass him on the next update.
February 8th: #7 Rebecca Chaneski and #8 Mattilde Feuillas continued battling for the women's title. Rebecca's 0.2 AF cut was enough to stay ahead, albeit not enough to catch up to #6 Richard K. Meanwhile, Mattilde's 0.5 AF cut was more than enough to pass #9 Andreas R and nearly catch up to Rebecca. Both girls are not only close to each other but also close to Richard, so could gain a spot without swapping the title. Rebecca reported two improvements, both on Yoshi Circuit; she is the eighth player to get the sub on Yoshi Circuit with a 1'39"99 and made good progress on the lap to get her 27th top-10 time. Rebecca's Yoshi lap was 0"001 faster than Mattilde's, so Mattile lost one of her top-10 spots. However, she made up for it on Luigi lap with a 24"1 lap, a move from 11th to 3rd place to score that win against David. Mattilde also improved Bridge to sixth and City lap to eighth.
As you can see, the fact that they are battling for the Women's Title is brought up constantly, a title that is essentially meaningless as I don't think an actual woman has held it in an awfully long time.
That's what pushed me over the edge from being suspicious to concerned enough to post this. It's an open secret at this point that Speedrunners have disproportionately high numbers of trans, but can we really let kids who go on the internet to talk about video games get sucked into this. The tendrils seem to be overtaking everything.
Kinda makes the whole "women's leauge" thing stupid and pointless, doesn't it.
I'm not against anyone playing video games, but it is a bit disconcerting when there's a link on the leaderboard page that spits out a whole list of them.
Well, according to what WhitePhoenix found, the name was Dustin in grade 10 (2014), so that gives us a fairly narrow range.