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In 1968, at 30 years old, Lynn Conway transitioned. In doing so she lost her wife, her children, and her job at IBM. She continued on, living authentically as her true self and continued her career as an electral engineer. In 1978 she became an associate professor at MIT and taught a course in VLSI (very large scale integration) that became the basis of the Mead-Conway VLSI Design Methodology, changing how we design integrated circuits. In 1985 she became a professor of electrical engineering at the University of Michigan, and later the associate dean of engineering.

32 years after transitioning, Conway came out publicly as a transgender woman. Since than she has been a advocate for transgender people in the tech sector. In 2020 IBM formally apologized for firing Conway for being trans, over 50 years after the fact. Just a bit of #transHistory I learned today.

Brooke 🏳️‍⚧️

@ItzyG Take that IBM! You lost out on an amazing engineer!

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I'm transgender and in tech :o. But I have to hide who I am.

I used to work at a place that ranked top50 LGBT places in the US and was openly gay there. I dont feel that comfortable where I work. Staritng to feel like it is right-leaning 🤔

@psiie @ItzyG I hope things will get better at your current (and/or new) workplace! 🤗

@grinningcat @ItzyG

Not much has changed in the 2 months since posting this. I did come out to one coworder (the only other girl on the team) and shes cool with it. She has her own hardships shes dealing with so it was a bonding moment ^_^

I decided I will tell my team one by one once I start doing voice lessons. Which my intake appt. is soon. B/c at some point I'm going to go into the office and look/sound different. haha.

(It's mostly WFH atm)

@psiie @grinningcat @ItzyG part of the problem is that tech is so hostile to women in general, both cis and trans. And we all know corporations that put up a good front but really aren’t behind closed doors.

@psiie What do you do? There are a lot of tech people on fedi who know the good companies and I've seen a good number of hiring/seeking posts.