People congregate where they feel safe. Sometimes that looks like the nerdy introverted kid living life on the internet when their immediate community doesn’t understand them, and the roles they’re expected to play don’t work for them. Turns out a lot of nerdy introverted kids who felt misunderstood by their families were trans, which isn’t too surprising.
What’s interesting to me is that most trans-people in tech are AMAB, and I think that reflects computers being seen as an ok “masculine” hobby (in lieu of sports or cars, etc.) . I often wonder where all the AFAB transpeeps end up instead, I know they’re somewhere!
People congregate where they feel safe. Sometimes that looks like the nerdy introverted kid living life on the internet when their immediate community doesn’t understand them, and the roles they’re expected to play don’t work for them. Turns out a lot of nerdy introverted kids who felt misunderstood by their families were trans, which isn’t too surprising.
What’s interesting to me is that most trans-people in tech are AMAB, and I think that reflects computers being seen as an ok “masculine” hobby (in lieu of sports or cars, etc.) . I often wonder where all the AFAB transpeeps end up instead, I know they’re somewhere!