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"Sophie Wilson - Designed the ARM instruction set" This is disingenuous. Sophie Wilson was Roger Wilson and unquestionably a man in the early eighties when tha

• concordDance 6y ago
  Yeah, if you're looking for a list of women doing important things in computer science to inspire young girls, you really really don't want MtF people there, it gives the opposite impression.
  • dragonwriter 6y ago
    > Yeah, if you're looking for a list of women doing important things in computer science to inspire young girls, you really really don't want MtF people there, it gives the opposite impression. You seem to assume both that young girls can't be young trans girls, which is not true [0], and further that young cisgender girls can't be inspired by adult transgender women, which is, at least, not obviously correct. [0] https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/01/young-trans-children-know-who-they-are/580366/ https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/01/young-tr...
    • concordDance 6y ago
      I was thinking about cis girls. They're the ones who need inspiration. If anything transwomen are overrepresented in tech.
• dragonwriter 6y ago
  > Sophie Wilson was Roger Wilson and unquestionably a man in the early eighties when that work was done. That someone had not yet gone public with a transgender identity does not support this description.