As the con was winding down, someone flagged me down in the hall. Her teenage daughter had recently transitioned, they'd uprooted their lives in the Southeast to get her to a safe part of the country. After seeing me, and other trans women, visible and confident in a professional setting, she feels like she has a place in tech or in infosec.
Everything has been worth it just to hear that.
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@memnus it’s wonderful if there’s a framework in place. But to get the framework someone has to be the first, and it looks like that’s going to be my task, at least for my institution...