I'm more impressed she's 19 years old. We truly have a new generation of some awesome people.

She is transfem though, which is not that rare in hacker community.

Does it matter? You said that like she's not a woman

The common view is that women on average accomplish less (in areas which are publicized) because they are, from the moment of their birth, held back by society, or at least not encouraged to excel in any visible fields of endeavor. Logically, I would assume that this applies less to trans women, depending on their age at transition, and also whether they “pass” or not. Therefore, accomplishments by trans women should maybe not be seen as being as inspiring as should similar accomplishments made by people who were treated as women from birth.

(Similarly, I would therefore logically assume that accomplishments by trans men are treated as less inspiring than they maybe ought to be, since, compared to non-trans men, trans men accomplished things despite having lived through more years of society treating them as women.)

Of course, this focus on men/women/trans is diverting us all from the topic at hand, which is cool Minecraft stuff.

If you don't pass you are universally treated as a freak, and if you transition late you have usually wasted your time dissociating. At the same time regardless if you pass or not, you have to deal with transphobia (if you are not stealth) and with people with good intentions who are uninformed and try to discourage you and make you repress and waste your life. Being treated as a male is not something that a trans female will benefit from, even if male upbringing is commonly associated with privilege.

OK, yeah, that makes sense. I guess that it shouldn’t really be surprising that there are a lot of hidden factors to these things than can be immediately intuited by the outside observer, therefore making logic and reasoning less than useful.

You would need to have quite a sexist perspective on how women and men differ to believe the author is a woman.

What perspective is that?

Looking through your comment history, I'm sure you are very well aware.

Another one of those riding the fine line between genius and insanity.