Many of them were male, for instance: an automatic disqualification.

Failure to attend the audition results in an automatic disqualification from the admissions process.

Finishing the race without a transponder leads to automatic disqualification.

Even then, a history of litigation against a prior landlord usually triggers automatic disqualification.

However students may not skip the exams, as that would mean automatic disqualification.

A chef cutting themselves was treated as an automatic disqualification.

Should such help be necessary in an emergency, it means automatic disqualification.

And is a lack of familiarity with the Beatles' catalog grounds for automatic disqualification?

In swimming, any swimmer who starts before the starting signal is given an automatic disqualification.

A black coat remains an automatic disqualification, though a small white marking in the chest area only is permitted.