Usually comments where I do disclose I'm trans (it's also on my profile, but nobody checks) end up in the slightly positive upvote range. Right now, for instan

Usually comments where I do disclose I'm trans (it's also on my profile, but nobody checks) end up in the slightly positive upvote range. Right now, for instance, it is at +2. I've noticed that sometimes it even depends on the specific time of day I post, I've had comments that weren't incendinary at all sent to [dead] pretty fast a few times. It does make HN pretty atypically balanced for an online community, though of course the low bar anti intellectual engagement (there's a [dead] "cuck" comment here, for instance) always exists, followed by people who are too tethered to their own experience to consider others situation and reflexively disapprove of everything that looks "social justice".