This section provides context and methodology details for the data presented:
- **Data Scope:** This table focuses exclusively on instances where a Male athlete received money from a prize, scholarship, sponsorship or other monetary reward originally intended for female athletes.
- **Link Verification:** The provided links are to external sources. These sources include official results directly from the event webpages, sites that aggregrate athletic results from various organizations (such as MileSplit.com), news stories, and social media posts from team and athlete accounts. Archived links (Ar.) are provided in the case that these results 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.
- *Totals calculated on 10/20/2025*
Other Notes:
- "Prize Money" may include scholarships, sponsorships, and/or salaries paid due to participation in women's sport.
- Prize money amounts may be taken from the event information pages. In the case this is shown in the verification link, verification links for the competition results can be found on the "Total Results" page. In cases where a contest has not specified prize money awarded to specific places, information from previous or future years from the same competition will be used.
- All currency values converted to US Dollars ($) for totals.
- Due to the fluctuating value of the US Dollar, amounts may differ if converted at different dates.
- 1st (of 1) and 1st of 2 Males not counted in "women robbed" total.
- Due to the difficulty of obtaining information on scholarship amounts, professional salaries, and prize money in several sports and for many events, the total amount displayed here is a severe underestimate of the total amount stolen from female athletes by males in women's sports.
- *Place* - knocked out of the competition directly by another male athlete.
- The Taiwanese government paid Yu-Ting Lin 900,000 NT (29,408 USD) for his finish at the 2023 IBA World Boxing Championships where he would have won a silver medal if he had not been disqualified. It is not known if this money would have gone to another Taiwanese female athlete in a separate event, so it has not been included in the Totals.
Abbreviations:
- ISO alpha-3 country codes used for country abbreviations
- n/a - not available
- AUD - Australian dollar
- CAD - Canadian dollar
- CHF - Swiss franc
- CLP - Chilean peso
- COP - Colombian peso
- DKK - Danish krone
- EUR - euro
- MAD - Moroccan dirham
- MXN - Mexican peso
- NT - New Taiwanese dollar
- NZD/NZ - New Zealand dollar
- SEK - Swedish krona
- RP - Indonesian rupiah
- UGX - Ugandan shilling
- USD - United States dollar