That YC is advertising itself as 'female founder friendly' and to fund a bunch of - presumably, too little data - guys to copy the product of a female applicant that got rejected would be a strong move in the wrong direction.
But: since the OP doesn't supply any information at all all you can do is speculate about whether or not that is what happened.
Exactly this. Sorry for not being clear enough.
No problem, I totally get why you didn't want to make your post more specific. It makes good sense at this point.