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[-] Vub@lemmy.world 39 points 9 months ago

I don't get it, can someone explain?

[-] oce@jlai.lu 100 points 9 months ago

There seems to be an over representation of visible trans women among independent open source programers.

[-] Metz@lemmy.world 30 points 9 months ago

I have not seen a single piece of reliable evidence to show that this is true. There may be a louder minority in that specific area, but so far nothing indicates it is an actual overrepresentation.

[-] AspieEgg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 9 months ago

While I doubt there are like scientific papers on it or anything, the reverse correlation seems to be pretty strong. I know a lot of trans women who work in tech (IT support, programming, electronics, etc). There are also plenty of memes in trans communities about how we all work in tech, especially programming. If you search for “programming socks” or “Unix socks” you’ll get stripped thigh highs for instance.

Now whether trans people are more likely to work in tech, or if people in tech jobs are more accepting of trans people or something else, it certainly seems like trans people have a slight affinity for tech jobs.

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