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I’m an Ex-Google Woman Tech Leader and I’m Sick of Our Approach to Diversity

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unit91 ◴[14 Aug 17 18:19 UTC] No.15011053[source]▶
Can anyone provide insight as to how transgendered people count in the "women in tech" discussion? As I see it, there's now a quadrant of biological (fe)males and psychological (fe)males. Would a woman in tech mean only biologically and psychologically female, or also biologically female, also psychologically female, depends on who's counting?

I ask only because I see this already hyper-sensitive topic very soon becoming nearly impossible to discuss without somebody taking offense due to the combined effects of the biological and psychological gender sensitivities.

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1. jasonwatkinspdx ◴[14 Aug 17 19:03 UTC] No.15011585[source]▶
So to start with, don't conflate sex with gender.

Next, I'll make it really easy for you: women are women, and you can just count them as one group. That doesn't mean we should erase away the specific challenges and bigotry trans women face, but we also shouldn't be forcing them into a separate "quadrant" of women.

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2. unit91 ◴[14 Aug 17 19:50 UTC] No.15012173[source]▶
Wait...this didn't make it easy at all. When you said "women are women" were you speaking in terms of gender or sex? After that you said "trans women", so I take it you mean gender only? If so, does that mean a biological female who identifies as a male does not count as a woman in tech?
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3. jasonwatkinspdx ◴[14 Aug 17 20:24 UTC] No.15012515[source]▶
Gender.

A trans man is a man.