This section provides context and methodology details for the data presented:
- **Data Scope:** This table focuses exclusively on instances where a Male athlete received an honor or award meant for a female athlete. All major and minor awards are included, from "player of the match" awards to league MVP. Honors such as "team captain" are also included.
- **Link Verification:** The provided links are to external sources. These sources include announcements directly from the event webpages, sites that collect athletic results from teams (such as MaxPreps.com), news stories, and social media posts from team and athlete accounts. Archived links (Ar.) are provided in the case that the original links are removed or websites are no longer functional. Not all pages were able to be archived. When possible, archived links can most often be found in the second (2) link.
- **Athlete Verification:** Athletes have been verified as male through the use of public sources: news articles, personal declarations from the athletes, name changes, past photos, and other public records including job history, school records, and family records. In the case of males with DSDs, athletes are included if they have previously failed a sex/gender test.
- **Athlete Identification:** "DSD" refers to male athletes with a disorder of sexual development. These athletes are male but may have been mistaken for female at birth due to underdeveloped male genitalia. "Trans-identified" refers to male athletes who have had healthy male development but deny that they are men and boys and claim to be something else, typically "women" or "nonbinary". "Other" refers to males who do not belong in either of the former categories but participate on female teams due to rule exceptions.
- **Sorting:** The table is sorted by **Date (newest first)** by default. Many awards were not given a certain date, but the year or season in which they were awarded.
Other Notes:
- Totals here represent male youth athletes who have participated in high school, middle school, and independant club athletics in the "girls" division in the United States.
- "State" as referenced here refers to the location of the athlete's club or school that has allowed the male to particpate on the girls' team. Individual competitions may have taken place in a different state than the team location, for example South Eugene has participated in competitions outside of Oregon. To view competition locations, see the verifying link or the individual sport page.
- Many awards for named athletes are not available. The totals here do not represent every award the athletes may have received.
- Many high school and youth athletes remain unnamed and as such are not represented in the results here.
- "Junior" classification includes club and youth sports done outside of school.