Technology

Trans people are everywhere and it seems like a lot of us are in engineering, science, and computers. Case in point…

Meet Apple's New, Inspiring Transgender Programmer
The Advocate
By Cleis Abeni
November 29 2015

When she became a senior software engineer at Apple this year, Brielle Harrison reached her most important milestone yet. She is one of a small number of transgender programmers who are continually breaking the glass ceiling in America’s technology industry.

The Advocate spoke with Harrison about her pioneering career at some of the most well-known companies in the field: Facebook, Netflix, Google, and SmugMug. For the first time ever, Harrison publicly shared key details of her diversity work at Facebook and her continuing efforts at Apple, which she called “the best company yet to work for” and a great proving ground for a new generation of affirming practices for trans technologists.
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Harrison’s contributions stand out among her peers. As an in-demand engineer who continues to work on key teams within the industry in Silicon Valley, she is uniquely primed to address internal issues of inclusion. Now, more than ever before, Harrison is helping to rethink how nondiscrimination policies are implemented, creating new strategies for welcoming and retaining trans talent, and developing best practices that affirm the unique experiences of trans users. Here are the ways that Harrison is making a difference.

Is it because we try to bury our dysphoria in our work? Or is it we want to hide in a male world? There have even been some who say it is because of our dual nature that we use both sides of our brain.

Whatever it is there is a noticeable number of trans people in masculine creative fields.