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I think we must give great weight to the fact there are prominent and proud trans techies -- it tells you that in tech you can be successful. In what other fiel
by angry_octet 4y ago
I think we must give great weight to the fact there are prominent and proud trans techies -- it tells you that in tech you can be successful. In what other fields would you be as accepted?
There's also the need to be part of a community online, a community which is not physically accessible in most places, so the level of social media engagement is higher, and maybe that leads to tech and tech-adjacent work.
- randomsearch 4y agoI feel like that acceptance (and I’ve worked at a few places that have just been amazingly supportive and accommodating, long before it was widely discussed) is somehow vaguely related to the way us nerds don’t care about formal dress. “You do you” is the nerd individualistic way, and that seems to apply to a wide range of things, including lifestyle choices, fashion, being trans, and many other axes. So long as you can do the work, who cares how you choose to present? It’s a neat thing about nerdland.
- Spivak 4y agoWell the running joke is that if you’re a trans woman your options are IT or sex work.
- libraryofbabel 4y ago“Tech worker, sex worker, Starbucks barista — which of the three official trans girl professions are you?” (Starbucks has famously good trans healthcare.)
- Spivak 4y agoDang it! How could I forget Starbucks? One of my friends legit quit her well paying tech job to work for Starbucks for like a year and a half because it saved her money