The Grace Hopper Celebration is meant to unite women in tech. This year droves of men came looking for jobs.

  • JasSmith
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    -12 years ago

    It’s not clear from your comment. Are you also accusing the trans women at this conference of lying about their gender?

    • @TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world
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      62 years ago

      I am accusing the cisgender men at the conference of lying about their gender and I am accusing people in this thread of playing coy about the fact that is trivial for someone who 100% sees themselves as a man to tick F rather than M on a form if that will get them an advantage. Especially if they think being transgender happens on a whim.

      If they are transphobic, they even get to discredit actual trans people while they take advantage of an opportunity that wasn’t intended for them. It wouldn’t be the first time transphobic people pretend to be trans just to cause problems.

      You did read my comment, I hope. Do you truly believe there are more transgender women and non-binary people than cisgender women in tech, to the point they would outnumber them?

      • Otome-chan
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        22 years ago

        How do you distinguish between the people who genuinely identify as nonbinary and those who are dishonestly doing it?

      • @cricket97@lemmy.world
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        -42 years ago

        What if they’re not transphobic but rather just taking advantage of the less competitive playing field cough cough

        • @TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world
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          12 years ago

          Drop the cough and dogwhistles. This is not about trans people and whatever wildly overblown fearmongering you are itching to bring up.

          This is about men being smartasses.

          • Otome-chan
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            22 years ago

            If they’re amab and self identifying as nonbinary, they’d be transgender by definition.

          • @cricket97@lemmy.world
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            -42 years ago

            It’s actually about how there is no ability for biological women to police their own spaces anymore.