The only woman I can distinctly remember at an AGDQ event sat there knitting while a man did the speedrun. I'm not making that up.
The thing is speedrunning is an incredibly niche part of gaming, and gaming in general is already a heavily male-dominated hobby (despite that dumbass research from way back that lumped women who play Angry Birds at the bus stop into the gamer category to fluff the numbers) so you'd expect an actual female speedrunner to be rare as hen's teeth.
It's absolutely the new trendy thing for 99.9% of these retards, the problem is this time they have actual legal/social power behind them, and unlike a shitty dye job a lot of what they're pushing on kids can't be reversed.
Can you imagine how fucking insufferable emos or goths would have been if they could have got people arrested/fired for laughing at their haircuts or the bullshit fake names they made up on LiveJournal?