Impossible to prove one way or the other at this point, but I think there's a lot of percentage in assuming that this is Haku cooking up a bunch of heat about a woman player so he can do a big reveal and go "oh this really good player you thought was woman was actually a man the whole time, checkmate feminists I WAS RIGHT :smug:."
Obviously that's an incredibly stupid idea, and if its true he executed it very poorly, but that seems thematically consistent with everything else we know about him lmao
To go that far too try and prove a point..... I'm just shaking my head at the damage it's done. I hope Blizzard comes in and bans whoever is involved from competitions.
It's typically against women but sexism is defined by any and all sexes.