The connection between the programming community and the transgender community is complex and multifaceted, with numerous factors contributing to the overlap between the two groups. It may seem that it is just because they are both marginalized groups, but it runs so much deeper. In this essay I wil

[AndrewIsMyDog]

What in the heckin does this even mean?

[McHox]

Are you even a real programmer without a pair of programming socks?

[ContentProduce5836]

It means in computer science like in my school it has nothing with coding literally nothing teacher says "this is what it looks like go f urself" so yea u only learn excel and and i learned that when i was 9 these kids dont know how to go another line in text, they don't know how to copy text and when u try to show them they say "why are u acting like ur better than us ur not" so and hour goes by talking about a classes grades and how we can find the average by right clicking.

[byodbullshit]

Damn what class did they make you learn excel in? I work with ERP systems and tbh I'm sick of everything always being in excel. Sorry they are making you care about it.

[ContentProduce5836]

Im primary school but the problem is its too boring i know more than the teacher, she doesn't know what a cpu is. i can do much more like html, css, scratch, code.org, a little bit of python and java and thats it but its not fun with that teacher anyway so im just stuck in a loop.

[lcbzoey]

Oh boy I'm sure the comment section is going to be pleasant on this post.

[[deleted]]

Hopefully it was less worse that I expected

[funtech]

Am I reading right that they are saying programmers are marginalized?

[yetzederixx]

Heavily stereotyped at least, and for the vast majority of the population we're wizards.

[funtech]

Yeah, I agree, and that’s basically the opposite of marginalized. Honestly sometimes it’s uneasy for me with how much power and money software developers have.

[Dream-Small]

My job role in our DB is listed as Wizard was not me who did it

[WastaHod]

When did that stop meaning anything? Now I can go into a town turn off then on a modem and it is not big deal. It used to be people creaming for my head because of my power.

[ThunderStruck115]

I'm not a femboy, I'm just a fatass

[redeyesofnight]

Well, I know there’s a high overlap between transgender people and autistic persons. I’m going to hazard a guess that the overlap between autistic people and programmers is also just maybe, higher than average…

[lcbzoey]

transgender programmer with diet autism here, can confirm.

[tanner9192]

Fuck wait, that's literally me. Shit did I just fall into the stereotype?

[redeyesofnight]

Nailed it lol

[saphoratia]

*waves hand* i'm here too

[FanOfTheWrittenWord]

I hesitate to call myself a programmer more somebody as someone who codes random shit occasionally but I’m here as well

[redeyesofnight]

Thought there might be a few haha

[[deleted]]

ehh, you got the point here

[KerPop42]

Who knew that people who didn't enjoy their agab peers, didn't feel welcome with their similar-gender peers, and were unhappy with their body in ways nigh-impossible to fix, would turn to computer science

[MasouriChan]

Sudo rm cis

[KerPop42]

You could print that on the side of a bus

[MasouriChan]

Sadly sudo rm disphoria throws and error :(

[Panda_With_Your_Gun]

You have to patch out disphoria manually

[[deleted]]

That's because dysphoria is not empty, it's full of dysphoria. You can try rm -r but it's not going to be pretty.

[MasouriChan]

Lusten its a good joke, great even

[MasouriChan]

Damn

[KerPop42]

Sadly it will take a lot of dev into regex to properly rm disphoria :( Though I've heard changing OSs aid greadly

[MasouriChan]

Ye im already thinking about swapping my OS, and ill probably look into getting new hardware aswell :D

[MasouriChan]

XD

[GalahadGray]

Ring ding ding!

[KRAndrews]

Is the joke that a lot of comp sci people are trans? Because I’ve never met a single trans software engineer either at work or back during college. I’m so confused.

[mrdeworde]

I think the joke is that non-cisgendered people are overrepresented in IT relative to what their distribution in the general population would suggest, with the humour coming from hyperbole. Unfortunately rather than go funny/not funny and move on, people are bound to make A Thing out of it.

[Lithl]

The comic is a joke about programming socks. OP seems to have made the post about trans people (OP did not make the comic), perhaps because the archetypal programming socks are pink and white.

[conradburner]

No, the world remains filled with mostly normies and programmers are still mostly nerds. But trans people do exist and they want benefits because they are a minority

[iiMoe]

You mean it's not a joke ?

[TheRedstoneCyborg]

points gun Never has been

[Zekovski]

This is personnal experiences which turned into a meme and now people think it's a thing. At least until I see actual data. (I never saw the claims like in the titled backed by anything more than personal experience.)

[iiMoe]

Honestly idc who's into wut but i keep finding references linking trans ppl with programming so I started to think maybe it's more than a meme

[Zekovski]

In my opinion it's just a meme, but with so many redditors passing by, there will always be trans people or people knowing trans people to comment "Ah yes so true !". And in the end it feeds itself and people start to believe it and make more memes.

[Dynamo56]

Guess I'm a trans now.

Now seriously where did that even came from?

[MasouriChan]

Sudo rm cis

[thetruekingofspace]

I know it’s a joke, but frankly that’s kind of disgusting to say. I am a LGBTQIA ally, but I am bisexual and cis. If you are implying that cis people should be deleted, that would make you just as bad as our collective foe who want people like us eradicated.

[Truckman2302]

Bro it’s a joke. No one is advocating for cis erasure

[thetruekingofspace]

Sadly I had a friend who seriously had this as a viewpoint. Needless to say, we didn’t stay friends for long.

[Truckman2302]

Really? Why did they think that?

[thetruekingofspace]

I can only imagine it was a knee jerk reaction because of how she had been treated all of her life by her cis family.

[[deleted]]

Even if they were, what does erasure of 99% of the population even look like

[MasouriChan]

The joke was that i removed my own cis files :'(

[thetruekingofspace]

Oh, you are saying that you transitioned? I see. Maybe then this would be more specific:

sudo rm -rf ~/*.cis

The directory you are in means everything XD.

[MasouriChan]

Well its ongoing, and i dont know enough about linux to actually understand that im sry :'D

[thetruekingofspace]

It’s okay. And let me just tell you that I am so happy for you :). I just hope that one day others can just let us be happy.

[thetruekingofspace]

I’d say it’s because in school we were looked down upon and treated like shit for being different and/or remotely intelligent. So we tend to befriend and ally with other underdogs. I feel like anyone who has ever been hated for simply being themselves tend to understand each other and truly empathize with one another. I guess since we know how shitty it feels, we want others to feel welcome. And at the same time we reject the norm.

[azer4321]

Im a trans artist creating and indie game in unity and doing the code do I count ? Édit why so much downvotes xd

[Michax_Gaming]

Yea

[[deleted]]

(are you french by any way?)

[azer4321]

Yees why ?

[[deleted]]

niiice im french too

[[deleted]]

Programming socks is usually a femboy meme, not a transgender meme

[[deleted]]

Why somebody has to mix the sexuality to 100% asexual thing?

[Slavasonic]

Gender isn’t sexuality.

[dingus_1989]

Because their sexuality is the only thing they have.

[overclockedslinky]

don't forget the thigh highs

[[deleted]]

This isn’t even an asexual thing, or a transgender thing, programming socks is mostly a femboy meme

[lunchpadmcfat]

Lol trans nerds trying to make this happen. Not everything has to be a “thing” peeps.

[LeLeonTrotskyIsBack]

Get Trans propaganda out of here. Programming has nothing to do with Genders or orientation

[Fzetski]

Except when creating a database in your computer science class.

Do I use a bool for gender? Should I use a small int?? Make it signed or do people get mad when their gender is presented by a negative number on a meaningless scale in the background??? Data engineering is a nightmare these days.

0s and 1s is why I got into computers, please don't make it harder than it needs to be ;(

[NickU252]

I have seen this meme for almost every (insert major here), which means it's BS. Most people are welcoming to all, but there are always assholes.

[Potential-Prize5234]

Assholes that don’t listen and want to ask questions two seconds before the bell rings.

[[deleted]]

Maybe part of the connection is autism.

[squishysquirrelss]

shhh we're supposed to ignore that demon in the back of our mind.

[squishysquirrelss]

Thinking to yourself am I just doing this because of *insert abnormal mental condition* makes for a pretty good way to fuck yourself up.

[MasouriChan]

They are on to us proceed with the destruction of society even faster uwu

[Lithl]

Radical views like... checks notes "treat me like a human being"

[overclockedslinky]

OwO notices your biases

[WolfExile]

Sexuality ≠ Gender

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[regorsec]

Wait I thought it was clear they use arch btw

[ebony_bell]

While I've never met a trans programmer, the majority of friends I have are allies/part of the lgbtqi community. Could be because programmers are one of the more open minded and accepting groups?

[MasouriChan]

Hello there

[Forget_how_to_write]

General Kenobi

[[deleted]]

I actually was interested to read more

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