I would not attribute it to sexism without additional information. It does look suspicious. I think all the competitors are being cheated by a poor administration. It is really a shame because we need more competitions and learning experiences like this for our young people.

Hopefully we get more information in a follow up story. The group sponsoring the event needs new leadership and they need to fully explain what happened.

What do you base that on?

and watching my accomplishments attributed to men. Being denied entry into certain fields because they are "for men." Just being affected by the general misogyny that pervades all societies.

What makes you think it's not? She had the highest score and was replaced by a male in third place.

The numbers were incorrectly entered onto the scoresheet and it ended up leading to a tabulation error.

That seems many times more likely than a deliberate conspiracy to falsify scores in order to put a boy in the first place position instead of a girl.

Specifically because she was a girl?

The judges allowed her to keep her medal, but gave her place to someone else, who just happens to be male.

I am trying to understand what you are claiming here.

So you think this claim that the scores weren't entered correctly is a made up cover story to hide the fact that these officials wanted to replace the female winner of the contest with a male one?

Male judges would never do that, that would be so unfair.

If you have never been the subject of racism, sexism, rape, misogyny, it probably seems so outside your sphere of reality that it seems natural that the first girl to win a competition like that was fairly bumped. Of course, you are most likely correct. The 3rd place boy was really the winner.

I just would like for you to explain what you think happened here.

to someone else.

And the people in charge of the competition did not want a girl to be the winner?

conclusions. Tell me what you think.