No matter how many people tell you something is true, it doesn't make it true.
Leadership is one of those things that, when you earn, you're taught along the way that it's a burden and a responsibility because at the end of the day, the buck stops with you. Most women in today's society have been handed leadership without ever being taught this simple rule and thus, view it as something that they're deserving of because they're a woman. This leads to them hating smarter people in the room and elevating people that they like instead of people that do the job well. It leads to tyrannical behavior because they're constantly in fear that people will realize just how unqualified they are because they never earned their position.
Seems pretty clear that if you're fighting the auditing of something, which should give the exact same results, you're probably guilty.