Transgender Today – Karen Topham

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/storywall/transgender-today/stories/karen-topham

by wglb • 11 years ago

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tribeofone• 11 years ago

what does this have to do with Hacking News?

Fastidious• 11 years ago

I guess it is something someone might find interesting, or worth of reading. HN is not only about hacking. If you are not interested (I am not, for example), simply pass.

dang• 11 years ago

The first paragraph of https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html answers your question.

zxcvcxz• 11 years ago

I knew in an instant that any hope my 12-year-old mind had of the transition it had longed for since it could comprehend the difference between the sexes was hopeless, and that I would never be able to talk to my mother about the most important thing in my universe.

First of all, this was when the person was 12 (the 60's), not today. Secondly the LGBTQ community speaks of being tolerant of all cultures, you have to take into account that the authors mother was probably raised that way from birth and that perhaps given sometime her mind could be changed.

I'm not really sure what this particular article has to do with anything related to what's discussed on this message board. To me it seems like outside of the LGBTQ community its self, the technology sector is the most accepting of their culture. It's extremely rare that I ever see people who actually don't like/accept LGBTQ in any community.

The technology sector is clearly not anti-LGBTQ or anti-women or anti-black. So why then do words like "racist" and "misogynist" get thrown around constantly? To me it seems like there is a small group of people attempting to control the narrative of conversations and arguments by making up arbitrary rules about how your culture is wrong (and therefore racist) and should assimilate to their culture, which requires extreme devotion to their rules (which actually don't exist).

rabbyte• 11 years ago

I've been working in technology for almost 30 years. I've seen racists, misogynists, homophobes, transphobes; bigots of every shape, size, and color. To think of any community as wholly privileged and safe from ignorance is arrogance. Even people within the LGBTQ community have hateful or degrading points of view. You are not separate from this, we're all part of this, and right now your using your voice to say there's no problem. Your experiences are not the experiences of others.

Transgender Today – Karen Topham

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