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.