The first programmer was a woman (Ada Lovelace), the person who laid the foundation for all modern computing was gay (Alan Turing), and the person who revolutionized modern chip design was trans (Lynn Conway). Computer science history is filled with queerness and diversity.
How dare you forget Sophie Wilson, inventor of the ARM chip (which exists in literally every phone pretty much since… 1997?) 😆
She also partakes in Europython (though not sure if she joined this year, but she was there last year, even though I missed both xD), for the Python nerds.
Oh wow I didn’t know she was trans, that’s super cool
My closest friend in grade school (circa 2010) is trans. Was it really that unusual to personally know trans people until recently?
I think a lot of the people currently freaking out about it have been, either individually or collectively, throwing red flags their entire life that say, “I am dangerous to anyone who does not conform to cis-hetero-normative culture,” and trans people have wisely avoided them where possible and stayed in the closet where not.
One of my close friends’ parents don’t know they’re trans because they know for a fact how badly they would react. They’re conservatives and they’re transphobic. It’s stopping my friend from transitioning.
Now trans people are in the news and those same transphobic people are wondering where they’ve all come from and they’re reacting in exactly the hostile way that the trans people who avoided them had predicted.
Nope, that’s the point.
some might say yes
Are They the ones with the sick sideburns playing with a homemade synth in that video from the 70s?
If you mean this video, then yes!
She was ahead of her time
Electronic music pioneer and fuckin LEGEND Wendy Carlos, thank you very much.
It makes me feel icky to type it out… The terms “tranny” and “transvestite” were very common nomenclature in the 90s. In conversation, movies, television. Trans people were often a punchline. And absolutely existed.
Transvestite, I believe, is also a term applied to intersex persons as well, as far as I know… At least historically.
The condition of being intersex, as far as I’m aware, is a well known condition dating back really far.
Those people truly have no gender (and/or they’re both genders? IDK), so “trans” doesn’t really apply to them IMO.
People used to use hermaphrodite as a slur not that long ago for intersex people, as well.
intersex people are exactly that - somewhere outside of the binary of the two sexes. Thanks to them we see the clearest example of how gender is simply assigned to a child at birth. Majority of intersex children are forced into one of the binary sexes and then forcefully assigned a gender to match so they can be “normal”.
and it honestly comes down to the individual if they see themselves as trans or not, some might see what their parents did to be a forced transition, some might want to detransition from that, some might not
5 years ago…
5 years ago was 2019, that statement is equally funny as it is horrifying
If you live under a stone, that might be your first time hearing that trans people exist.
Nah, it was around the time trans people became heavily politicized and their weekly outrage sources told them to be mad about it
Wait…I exist?
holy shit me too
What is our purpose?
lead the revolution
Five years ago a friend celebrated the 12th anniversary of her vaginoplasty…
She also saved Panos the wonder child ! (YouTube)
Thank you, if you hadn’t posted it, I would have. I was literally just watching this again for the umpteenth time yesterday. One of my favorite videos of all time.
Yeah I saw some videos of her trying to dress up as a man in some presentation video about an electronic instrument and it just felt so out of place. She’s definitely a woman.
This seems nuts but it’s true. She had privately transitioned but hadn’t yet come out in 1970, and had to make some public appearances wearing awkward fake sideburns (and maybe a short-haired wig?) to pose as a man. More info here on Pink News.
wasn’t germany famously fucking around with some shit relevant to this before the whole “hitler arc”
sociology and psychology and one of the more fascinating concepts.
The fact that people try to argue that trans people simply did not exist prior to a few years ago is amusing to me.
I’m a passing, sorta stealth, trans man. I always find it funny when someone claims trans people didn’t exist five or ten years ago, because I stated medically transitioning in 2012.
even i don’t make the cut :( began transition in 2018 and though it feels like it was a week ago it happened 6 years ago, apparently
Check out her album Sonic Seasonings sometime. Really amazing atmospheric stuff!
I saw this a while back on TikTok and had to dig up my memory of this. Around 2014 I was reading an article about the person who did some of the VFX for Tron: Legacy. I bookmarked it. At some point the link was dead. Turns out they came out as trans. I don’t know if her site redesign/domain name has anything to do with that but it seeing this post always reminds me of that. https://jtnimoy.cc/item.php%3Fhandle=14881671-tron-legacy.html
Every year, millions of trans folks are detransitioned against their will by the 5 year hard limit.
How long until chuds will claim historical records of trans people are falsified?
Already have seen this. I have seen arguments pointing out what the Nazis did to trans people, the first clinic for trans people, and the research materials on it, get met with replies that it’s revisionist, fraudulent, jewish, propaganda.
Worth noting: a lot of the material from that German trans clinic in the 1920s-30s was destroyed by the doctors themselves. Y’know. To protect their patients from the god-damned Nazis.
JK Rowling did that not too long ago. (She didn’t call it Jewish, but absolutely called it lies and propaganda that trans people and trans researchers were early targets for the Nazis and victims of the Holocaust.)
I don’t say this to obsess over the Harry Potter author, but to point out that you don’t have to go cherry picking to find this shit. She’s a prominent person using her platform to spread bigotry and misinformation.
oh yeah, i know about her, she is putting that stuff into the mainstream. Worst part is, she is likely so touchy about this because of her own gender identity issues that she has ignored rather than resolve.
Yeah. I know that calling bigots secretly closeted is problematic, but IIRC she has outright said that, if she were a young person today, she would question her gender identity.
Oh, I am not just saying this because she is anti-trans, I am saying this because she has been speaking about her issues gender for like 20, nearly 20, years now. The more that she came out with, the more hard line anti-trans she showed herself to be. This is probably made all the worse from her trauma from rape. But hey, I am not her psychologist.
Totally understood, and I apologize for implying you might have. It was not my attention. I just meant that, even though it’s something I avoid jumping to conclude, it does happen, and there’s reason to believe it’s the case with Rowling. She’s got issues. It doesn’t absolve her of anything, but there’s a little pity in my condemnation.
Yeah, I didn’t take that comment as accusatory, just figured I would make my position clear. There is a body of evidence that shows that the more intense someone’s homophobia is, the more likely they are to be sexually aroused by homoerotic stuff. However, this does not mean homophobes are likely to be closeted queers. The vast majority of these bigots are not, in fact, homosexuals. However, every public homophobe gets a lot of reactions suggesting they are, often even from gay people. Not great.
I’ve known about this woman for years and been a Tron fan since I wore out the VHS when I was six, and I never realized they were connected.
Those are some epic credits
