Interesting article, both on Ada Lovelace and Lynn Conway.
I studied ADA for a year at Paisley Tech, and the historic origins of the name and how she was the first programmer were mentioned in the course.
Not read the links yet (will try and do so tonight after work), but the I'm wondering, do trans women have to try much harder to be "girly" and hence accepted as female, and does pursuing interests in subjects / areas that are traditionally seen as "male" result in trans women who do so getting "you're not really female, look, your interests are all boystuff" accusations?
I'm thinking of how it's sometimes said that a female programmer or engineer has to be not just as good as her male peers, but at least twice as good as them, in order to be taken seriously in the workplace (aka the gender gap), and wondering if there's a similar "trans gap"?
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on 2009-03-24 01:36 pm (UTC)I studied ADA for a year at Paisley Tech, and the historic origins of the name and how she was the first programmer were mentioned in the course.
Not read the links yet (will try and do so tonight after work), but the I'm wondering, do trans women have to try much harder to be "girly" and hence accepted as female, and does pursuing interests in subjects / areas that are traditionally seen as "male" result in trans women who do so getting "you're not really female, look, your interests are all boystuff" accusations?
I'm thinking of how it's sometimes said that a female programmer or engineer has to be not just as good as her male peers, but at least twice as good as them, in order to be taken seriously in the workplace (aka the gender gap), and wondering if there's a similar "trans gap"?