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by perkele1989 on Monday March 17, 2025 @07:49AM
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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.
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.