There's also a cultural issue driving this that starts with programming gender and biases into kids at or before birth. It is driven, in part, by common confusi

There's also a cultural issue driving this that starts with programming gender and biases into kids at or before birth. It is driven, in part, by common confusions between gender, biological sex, and genitals. My partner and I didn't know what our child's genitalia was until 20+ minutes after birth. We witnessed so much unconscious (and conscious!) gendering from people throughout pregnancy and labor we decided to not share what's between our kid's legs with people. They only just turned one, so we're not sure about how this will affect them. We're doing a considerable amount of work to counter cultural programming in the hopes of raising an empowered person in such a traumatizing and disempowering world. We're planning on homeschooling them in order to focus on learning how to learn what they choose in an environment without bonds to capitalism to limit the impact of that hot mess of programming, too. This is a collective issue and will generate pipeline issues until we collectively get our cultural programming shit together. I think we need to collectively focus on modeling culture through the lenses of category theory and computer science, ie. maths of relationships and programming.