I've gotten it to work, even on females, but only in specific circumstances. Like I often practice F3/F24 CBF4 run cancel 113 DB1 with the ai stand blocking, and this works 80% of the time for me, even on females. I thought it was related to stance, but I've had it succeed and fail in both matching and opposing stances. I have no idea whats going on here, but consistency would be nice.
A lot of times I just do 113 cBF4 instead. If it's blocked it's plus, and if it hits I don't get a very good combo, but they get pushed towards the corner and I can run cancel into a normal string or use mimic if it's not on cooldown.