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For me the number has been closer to 80% (my interestes/categories have been, foss, software dev, high tech specialization / academic work). This is not surpri

by nake89 7mo ago

For me the number has been closer to 80% (my interestes/categories have been, foss, software dev, high tech specialization / academic work). This is not surprising because I remember looking at the stats, females accounted for 2% of open source developers. And it was 7% female software devs (non-oss included, work etc). These stats are a few years old. I wonder if we can still find stats about cis-women in FOSS. Have the stats increased? Or is it too much of political hot potato to gather such stats? How many males are naturally fascinated with computers? I know I was. Therefore it makes sense that if we see a female name, it is not just possible but likely that, that person is trans. Nowadays when I see a female name, I don't make the same happy assumptions I used to. That said, I welcome anybody interested in computers with open arms.

JuniperMesos 7mo ago
This came up in the recent Rust community survey too, a slightly higher percentage of people identifying as trans than identifying as women: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/03/02/2025-State-Of-Rust-Survey-results/ https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/03/02/2025-State-Of-Rust-Sur.... In some of my circles it's a runing joke that Rust, along with Haskell and some other adjacent FP languages, are favored by trans women; and also when I think about the women I know personally who write Rust code in some kind of professional or hobbyist capacity, I think literally all of them are trans. There's a quote from the ctrlcreep short story Knowing One's Place (https://ctrlcreep.substack.com/p/knowing-ones-place https://ctrlcreep.substack.com/p/knowing-ones-place) that has stuck in my mind since I first read it: > The doctors are sympathetic, and I think some of them even understand—regardless, they can offer no solace beyond the chemical. They are too kind to resent, but my envy is palpable. One, a trans woman, is especially gentle; perhaps because her own frustrations mirror mine, our cognitive distance sabotaging her authenticity.

by nake89 7mo ago

JuniperMesos 7mo ago

This came up in the recent Rust community survey too, a slightly higher percentage of people identifying as trans than identifying as women: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/03/02/2025-State-Of-Rust-Survey-results/ https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/03/02/2025-State-Of-Rust-Sur.... In some of my circles it's a runing joke that Rust, along with Haskell and some other adjacent FP languages, are favored by trans women; and also when I think about the women I know personally who write Rust code in some kind of professional or hobbyist capacity, I think literally all of them are trans. There's a quote from the ctrlcreep short story Knowing One's Place (https://ctrlcreep.substack.com/p/knowing-ones-place https://ctrlcreep.substack.com/p/knowing-ones-place) that has stuck in my mind since I first read it: > The doctors are sympathetic, and I think some of them even understand—regardless, they can offer no solace beyond the chemical. They are too kind to resent, but my envy is palpable. One, a trans woman, is especially gentle; perhaps because her own frustrations mirror mine, our cognitive distance sabotaging her authenticity.