But the only ones I could find were on anti-trans legislation or violence against us… so I guess this article will have to do.
One of the problems that we as a community have to deal with is our passed lives, correcting the name or gender on old articles or on databases.
Scientific-journal publishers announce trans-inclusive name-change policies
Physic World
By Juanita Bawagan
19 May 2021
Several major scientific-journal publishers have launched policies that allow scientists to easily change their name on previous publications – a move that transgender researchers have been campaigning to introduce for years. In March Elsevier introduced a name-change policy that covers its more than 2500 journals, while similar initiatives were recently announced by IOP Publishing, which publishes Physics World, as well as the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Chemical Society, the Royal Society of Chemistry, PLOS and Wiley. The American Physical Society (APS), meanwhile, is expected to release its own policy soon.
For transgender scientists who change their name, their old name can be personally painful and can also reveal them as being transgender. Previously, scientists had therefore faced a decision between two bad choices – leaving older research off their publication record or risking discrimination. According to the APS LGBT+ Climate in Physics survey, published in 2016, transgender and non-binary physicists reported the highest levels of exclusionary behaviour, adverse climate and unsupportive policies. In the UK, meanwhile, almost a third of LGBT+ physical scientists have considered leaving their jobs because of discrimination and toxic workplace climates.
Many of our old records are on microfilm. As the name implies it is photographic film, an actual image of the document. It is actually 16mm black and white movie film that takes a black and white picture on the document that is being archived and its location is listed on a ledger, unless you cut and splice the film there is not way to change the document.
When I applied to UConn School of Social Work my transcripts from 1974 were all on microfilm so there was no way to change them to reflect my true gender and name.
“We wanted to ensure that authors could change their name on already published research without a cumbersome process,” notes Kim Eggleton, integrity and inclusion manager at IOP Publishing. “A more inclusive and equitable publishing environment is important to us, so we’re pleased to have made another step in the right direction.”
Back around the turn of the century I was surfing the web looking website on the old computers that I had used, when I was looking at websites on the IBM 360 I came across and article about the IBM 360 and something call “dynamic instruction scheduling” and how all the modern day microprocessor are based on the discovery and it gave the name of it inventor. About a month later I went back to reread the article and it had a woman’s name instead of a man’s name… Hmm?
Doing research on the web I came across this article, “Engineering Identity” about Lynn Conway one of our pioneers and because of her all of our computers run on programs and processes that she developed.
EDN had this so say about her…
The IEEE Computer Society's Computer Pioneer Award for 2009 has been given to University of Michigan professor Lynn Conway who helped revolutionize Very Large System Integration design.
Conway innovated scalable MOS design rules and highly simplified methods for silicon chip design, co-authoring the Mead-Conway book and pioneering the new form of university course that taught these methods — thereby launching a worldwide revolution in VLSI system design in the late-1970s.
In 2009 she was the IEEE Computer Society’s Computer Pioneer Award on their announcing the award they said…
In a remarkable form of career closure, Conway’s VLSI design revolution enabled her multi-issue DIS innovation from the 1960’s to finally “come to life” in the 1990’s — in the Intel Pentium microprocessors and their contemporaries — greatly enhancing the power of modern PC’s.
Conway has received many awards and honors for these contributions, including election as Fellow of the IEEE, Pender Award of the Moore School of the University of Pennsylvania, Wetherill Medal of the Franklin Institute, Secretary of Defense Meritorious Achievement Award, Society of Women Engineers National Achievement Award, Presidential Appointment to the USAFA Board of Visitors, an honorary Doctorate from Trinity College, election to the Electronic Design Hall of Fame, and election as a Member of the National Academy of Engineering.
If they hadn’t changed her name in the article I would never have found out about one of the most amazing trans person.
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