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Surprisingly a full 2.6% of Stack Overflow visitors identify as non male/female, of which a 0.5% transgender. Both numbers much higher than those for the genera
by randomname2 10y ago
Surprisingly a full 2.6% of Stack Overflow visitors identify as non male/female, of which a 0.5% transgender. Both numbers much higher than those for the general population.
It would be interesting to see more information about this, looking forward to the follow-up article: "We will publish additional analysis related to respondents’ gender identities in the coming weeks."
- pluma 10y agoBased on my experience both in developer communities and outside of them, I don't find that surprising. While it is evidently true that there are disproportionately more men in tech, it also seems to be true that there are more queer/trans/non-conforming people in tech. Also I wouldn't be surprised if the numbers are actually higher: assuming the choices are exclusive, the way they are worded it's not clear how transgender is intended to be represented in the results. Not everyone who is transgender sees their "trans" status as a distinct gender identity (i.e. the emphasis in "trans-woman" or "trans-man" doesn't have to fall on the "trans" aspect). I think a clearer distinction would have been a separate question "my gender identity matches the gender I was assigned at birth" (instead of distinguishing between male, female and "trans") but that might have overcomplicated things.
- k__ 10y agoYes, most female developers I know are trans women.
- kbart 10y agoThat doesn't necessarily correlates to real life identities. I never post personal information if given choice not to, that includes as many "other" as there is.