how the hell is a discussion about people biases in regards to someone's perceived gender when they are pretty much the same person with the same expertise not OBVIOUSLY connected to rationality? Tenuous my ass.

Re: "women are treated better" I don't know if you're straw manning the person you're talking about but different genders are treated differently in different contexts. It's pretty interesting to see what kind of effects people see when they transition in different areas of life, and I don't think that really counts as "gender politics".