Female to Male, A Different Trans Perspective
summary
Transitioning from female to male in the mid‑thirties while leaving a corporate engineering job to start a business produces concrete problems: loss of the women‑in‑tech network that enabled scholarships and hiring, repeated misgendering during networking, and painful gatekeeping from women’s groups. A survey of about 600 tech workers shows 6% of respondents identify as trans men. The timeline includes top surgery then HRT, and the ask is for intentional, funded community spaces that actually welcome all trans people.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:56Quitting corporate job
- 4:00Accepting trans identity
- 6:47Networking as trans man
- 8:35Losing women in tech
- 11:00Fear of never being read as male
- 13:08Starting hormone replacement therapy
- 14:10Trans men in tech
- 16:19Key takeaways
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