Right after my younger sibling had FtM surgery, that's some great timing 😅
I can attest that having a (seemingly) trans sibling doesn't make me any more qualified than you to comment on the existence of legitimate transgenders (it's impossible to know directly on an individual basis).
Several European countries seem to be handling the matter pretty well, pulling back on routine medical treatment but without going as far as banning it outright and provoking political recoil (with the possible exception of the UK).
Us male Aspies do seem considerably more likely to make it (in attaining real accomplishments and good attitudes) than our sisters; if that's because women are naturally more conformist, I'm not really qualified to answer either (not that my observations have done much to convince me otherwise).
What I've also realized about conformity, is that its seeming "safety" is ever-diminishing in the present world; and even this thinning veneer is only accessible to naturally-conformist (i.e. neurotypical) personalities, as if you fail to conform, you're no longer safe (indeed, quite the opposite). Unfortunately the Aspergirls tend to get stuck in limbo, where they just keep failing to conform instead of paving their own roads; one I encountered on DeviantArt was so warped that she blocked me while admitting I was "nice" (which was more than she could say of herself), even while tolerating a bizarre jerk who isn't the least bit polite to non-normies. Don't get me wrong, she is highly intelligent and an amazing artist (even if her recent work has lost its previous creative flair); but she still can't paint over her maladjustments, and if I had a time machine I'd go back and DDoS DeviantArt to avert the drama. (I promptly deactivated my DeviantArt account.)
I read somewhere that France does give false accusations the same penalty as the crime. (Not that I'm a big fan of France overall; for all their snobbiness, they don't necessarily do it well.)
I think it's time I open up about my hobbies; the DeviantArt NPCs weren't having that, but I'm sure you wouldn't mind. I'm second-in-command on Hardware Insights (https://www.hardwareinsights.com), which reviewed a wide variety of computer PSUs and cases, among other small things. Around mid-2017 we ran out of steam and our HTTPS certificate expired in 2021, but you have my blessing to bypass it.
I can't say great things about US electrical standards (versus their European and Australian counterparts), but in any case I find electrical stuff safer to deal with (given basic competence) than people (NPCs especially). It's also become a decent place (suitably objective and apolitical) to start chipping away at false expertise: The cobbers at Australia's "Choice" magazine (for example) can't even properly review something as simple as a portable heater. Too easy for me, though: https://www.hardwareinsights.com/kambrook-kfh660-and-kfh600/ (with a competitor coming as soon as I take its photos) Ideally I'd have additional equipment (noise meter etc.) but calling the difference "night-and-day" would already be an understatement. In this thread I post smaller, partial reviews of various products (also including a few heaters, but mainly other electrical items): http://www.hardwareinsights.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=2160
An update now – I can very much confirm that police don't work as the SOLE agents of law enforcement; certainly in Australia they've utterly lost the plot, and just meddle based on the vaguest of vague suspicions, instead of showing any regard for due process (last time I was at the beach, some other boys were being massive perverts and I can only guess they indeed perved on the girls, whose accusations were subsequently misattributed to me). Not that the issued "penalty" that time even mattered – it was only a 24-hour ban from the beach and I was too sunburned to go back then anyway. (Besides, just as a hobby I can do far more to enforce safety standards than they could ever dream of, so they're only hurting their strongest potential ally.) But that's the last time I go to the beach until we see meaningful reform – the pool is much safer and has fewer hazards.
To quote the (translated) lyrics of Mitsudomoe's S2 ending song Backpacking (extended version): "Every single time they long too much for days gone by and it ends like you'd expect, right?" (Having a competent and effective police force; teenage girls being skinny and underdeveloped enough to visually distinguish from legal adults; semiconductors being automatically longer-lasting than vacuum tubes, even…)
It and especially Paranormaling are far stronger efforts from Nomico than her "top hit" Bad Apple!! (And in a supreme twist of fate considering their superficially-pervy appearance, watching/reading Mitsudomoe and The Dangers in My Heart might have finally helped me to stay OUT of jail, by priming me for the meddling police and relentlessly-perverted boys… The girls of Mitsudomoe are shaped just like any other normal, healthy girls nowadays; no need to fetishize them as "pudgy lolis" like weeaboos do. Anna Yamada's figure in The Dangers in My Heart – at least in the manga where her proportions are more‑balanced – is no exaggeration either.)
Right after my younger sibling had FtM surgery, that's some great timing 😅
I can attest that having a (seemingly) trans sibling doesn't make me any more qualified than you to comment on the existence of legitimate transgenders (it's impossible to know directly on an individual basis).
Several European countries seem to be handling the matter pretty well, pulling back on routine medical treatment but without going as far as banning it outright and provoking political recoil (with the possible exception of the UK).
Us male Aspies do seem considerably more likely to make it (in attaining real accomplishments and good attitudes) than our sisters; if that's because women are naturally more conformist, I'm not really qualified to answer either (not that my observations have done much to convince me otherwise).
What I've also realized about conformity, is that its seeming "safety" is ever-diminishing in the present world; and even this thinning veneer is only accessible to naturally-conformist (i.e. neurotypical) personalities, as if you fail to conform, you're no longer safe (indeed, quite the opposite). Unfortunately the Aspergirls tend to get stuck in limbo, where they just keep failing to conform instead of paving their own roads; one I encountered on DeviantArt was so warped that she blocked me while admitting I was "nice" (which was more than she could say of herself), even while tolerating a bizarre jerk who isn't the least bit polite to non-normies. Don't get me wrong, she is highly intelligent and an amazing artist (even if her recent work has lost its previous creative flair); but she still can't paint over her maladjustments, and if I had a time machine I'd go back and DDoS DeviantArt to avert the drama. (I promptly deactivated my DeviantArt account.)
I read somewhere that France does give false accusations the same penalty as the crime. (Not that I'm a big fan of France overall; for all their snobbiness, they don't necessarily do it well.)
I think it's time I open up about my hobbies; the DeviantArt NPCs weren't having that, but I'm sure you wouldn't mind. I'm second-in-command on Hardware Insights (https://www.hardwareinsights.com), which reviewed a wide variety of computer PSUs and cases, among other small things. Around mid-2017 we ran out of steam and our HTTPS certificate expired in 2021, but you have my blessing to bypass it.
I can't say great things about US electrical standards (versus their European and Australian counterparts), but in any case I find electrical stuff safer to deal with (given basic competence) than people (NPCs especially). It's also become a decent place (suitably objective and apolitical) to start chipping away at false expertise: The cobbers at Australia's "Choice" magazine (for example) can't even properly review something as simple as a portable heater. Too easy for me, though: https://www.hardwareinsights.com/kambrook-kfh660-and-kfh600/ (with a competitor coming as soon as I take its photos) Ideally I'd have additional equipment (noise meter etc.) but calling the difference "night-and-day" would already be an understatement. In this thread I post smaller, partial reviews of various products (also including a few heaters, but mainly other electrical items): http://www.hardwareinsights.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=2160
Interesting...
An update now – I can very much confirm that police don't work as the SOLE agents of law enforcement; certainly in Australia they've utterly lost the plot, and just meddle based on the vaguest of vague suspicions, instead of showing any regard for due process (last time I was at the beach, some other boys were being massive perverts and I can only guess they indeed perved on the girls, whose accusations were subsequently misattributed to me). Not that the issued "penalty" that time even mattered – it was only a 24-hour ban from the beach and I was too sunburned to go back then anyway. (Besides, just as a hobby I can do far more to enforce safety standards than they could ever dream of, so they're only hurting their strongest potential ally.) But that's the last time I go to the beach until we see meaningful reform – the pool is much safer and has fewer hazards.
To quote the (translated) lyrics of Mitsudomoe's S2 ending song Backpacking (extended version): "Every single time they long too much for days gone by and it ends like you'd expect, right?" (Having a competent and effective police force; teenage girls being skinny and underdeveloped enough to visually distinguish from legal adults; semiconductors being automatically longer-lasting than vacuum tubes, even…)
It and especially Paranormaling are far stronger efforts from Nomico than her "top hit" Bad Apple!! (And in a supreme twist of fate considering their superficially-pervy appearance, watching/reading Mitsudomoe and The Dangers in My Heart might have finally helped me to stay OUT of jail, by priming me for the meddling police and relentlessly-perverted boys… The girls of Mitsudomoe are shaped just like any other normal, healthy girls nowadays; no need to fetishize them as "pudgy lolis" like weeaboos do. Anna Yamada's figure in The Dangers in My Heart – at least in the manga where her proportions are more‑balanced – is no exaggeration either.)