Comment on Men Overran a Job Fair for Women in Tech
cricket97@lemmy.world 8 months agoThe conference should have been for females, not women. Transgender women are over represented in tech and the real numerical discrepancy is with the number of females in tech.
LPThinker@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Since I am not a woman, transgender or otherwise, I won’t comment on the differences or similarities of their experiences. That said, excluding transgender women from a woman-oriented space does not seem helpful or thoughtful to me, just transphobic.
Also, distinguishing between women and females is not something I’m familiar with and don’t feel good about it. It’s certainly self-evident that afab women and transgender women have on average different lives experiences especially during their formative years in which an interest in tech and CS is likely to be either cultivated or discouraged. Nonetheless, given the significant prejudice against transgender people, I imagine few women would begrudge them participation in this community.