You’re assuming that every trans person feels able to live publicly according to their identity. Clearly in some places that isn’t the case. Perhaps the tech industry is particularly accepting.

Also, I am not an expert on this, but I question whether “agenda” is appropriate. That seems to describe a concerted political movement. I think you are really just observing trans people.

You have a gender pronoun. You likely expect people to refer to you as "he" or "she." You likely extend that preference elsewhere, to honorifics like "Mr." or titles like "Chairwoman."

I've met more trans people than I've met Ukrainians. That doesn't stop me from supporting Ukraine.

Only about 20% of people in IT/programming are women. This alone means you should hear about 4 trans women for every trans man in this field.

To show how that works out, with ~0.5% of the adult population trans that means about 80% * 0.5% = 0.4% of the population is a transwoman, so if you see a woman in IT there's a 2% chance she's a transwoman.

On the other hand, 20% * 0.5% = 0.1% of the population is a transman, so if you see a man in IT there's a 0.125% chance it's a transman.

As an extreme case, if no assigned-female-at-birth people go into IT, then 100% of all women in IT will be trans.

I think 0.5% is an inflated figure, but that aside, if I count the number of openly trans people in different IT-centric communities (like discord servers etc), this figure goes up by a lot (like 20%-30% or even higher). Which is _much_ higher than the global figure, regardless of if 0.5% is accurate or not. This makes me believe there's either a social component to it, or that there's a correlation between being a very diligent programmer, and having this kind of dysphoria.

It makes me curious as to what connections really are here.

Clearly not asked in good faith. Downvote, flag, and move on.

I'm sorry? It was absolutely asked in good faith. I understand that I generally don't share the popular consensus that exists in IT about it, but me being of a different opinion initially does not imply that it's asked in bad faith.

I think we can do better than this.

Admitting that I'm straight, old, and have never paid close attention to the (ever-changing) ideology/politics of GLBTQ... - I suspect this is very similar to the prevalence of gays in IT, back in the second half of the 1900's. If you are uncomfortable, or unable, wrt/"fitting in" socially in groups of young, straight males (often noted for their excess of machismo, and pressure to conform) then "retreating behind a keyboard" can look like a great option. IT & programming seem (and fairly often are) meritocratic - in the "management don't much care who you are, if you can make the computers work right" sense. And at least since the late '60's, there's been something of an "oddball personalities" reputation to IT/programming. That's made it easier to mostly fit in there...while still being more yourself, maybe staying in the closet, and maybe sitting on the fence as you try to figure out who you are.

EDIT: Agree with tene80i's comment about "trans agenda". Every (n < 5) trans person I actually know has a big, angry chip on their shoulder - about people assuming that they are somehow associated with whatever the currently-trending assertions of the most-vocal 0.01% might be.

(And, yes, I get that "trans agenda" often refers to an ugly "Elders of Zion" caricature, constructed by nasty right-wingers.)

Sure, but opposite to simply being homosexual, which can be entirely invisible if not brought up, being trans often involves changing your physical attributes with surgery and hormonal treatment, at which point it becomes quite obvious to spot if someone is trans.