• Metz@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Yes, multiple. I’m also in multiple FOSS user and developer groups.

    But there is no need to believe me. You can ask Github. https://opensourcesurvey.org/2017/

    Along other dimensions, representation is stronger: 1% of respondents identify as transgender (including 9% of women in open source), and 7% identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, asexual, or another minority sexual orientation.

    The proportion of the general population is 0.5 to 0.7%. So yes, it is very slightly higher, but not in the way that all the memes have been trying to portray it lately.

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      9 months ago

      I would say programmer circles tend to be progressive as well, so some over-representation makes sense. I mean, where do we expect trans women to want to work?

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        It’s probably more of where one can be expected to be open about not being ‘normative’

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      9 months ago

      It seems to have become fashionable to over-hype it among younger more casual Linux users. Hence things like “Linux/Unix socks”.

      It’s quite heavily pushed in Discord servers where you’ll be asked to choose whether you’re a “catboy” or “femboy”.

      It’s quite irritating. Some of those ‘femboys’ can be quite homophobic funnily enough which is infuriating.