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The Grace Hopper Celebration is meant to unite women in tech. This year droves of men came looking for jobs.

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[–] huginn@feddit.it 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"an increase in participation of self-identifying males”

These aren't guys who claim transgenderism or non-binary identity, these are men.

Gender is what an individual feels like: and it's a consistent feeling regardless of their circumstances.

Nobody in good faith argued that your gender changes at the drop of a hat or whenever convenient. The transgender people I know have experienced significant suffering for decades due to a mismatch in feeling vs societal impositions.

White isn't being a bigot: you are with your terf talking points. Fuck off.

[–] JasSmith@kbin.social 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

These aren’t guys who claim transgenderism or non-binary identity, these are men.

They didn't poll anyone already at the conference. There were no genital checks at the door. This is Cullen White making a prima facie observation of people who present as men and claiming they "lied about their gender identity when signing up."

It sounds like both you and White feel entitled to dictate to others their gender.

[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

But how did they know the people lying about their identity were actually lying? That's what I was left wondering. Hopefully it's not just based on what the organizers assumed because that'd be (while admittedly funny) quite contrary to what I assume they want to advocate for.

I read the article but didn't see it clarified. Dunno if they clarified in the video