Did you know the x-ray you had because of that cough was made possible by a trans man? Did you know that the computer or smartphone that you are reading this on was made in part by a trans woman. Did you know that the music you listen to on satellite radio was made possible by a trans woman?
When you look at the trans trail blazers it is amazing at the number of trans people made major inventions and businesses. Dr. Alan Hart was a trans man who went on to make medical advances,
Then here in Connecticut…Trailblazing Transgender Doctor Saved Countless Lives
After transitioning in 1917, Alan L. Hart helped alter medical history
Scientific America
By Leo DeLuca
June 10, 2021[…]
Hart, since childhood, had secretly identified as male and been attracted to women. Though she covertly dated several women throughout college, she largely kept her feelings hidden. Then one day, plagued by a phobia that was unrelated to her gender identity or sexual orientation, she sought help from her University of Oregon Medical School professor and doctor J. Allen Gilbert. Suspecting Hart was hiding a deeper secret, Gilbert encouraged her to confide in him. After two weeks of deliberation, Hart returned to the doctor and revealed her entire life story.
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“After treatment ... proved itself unavailing, she came with the request that I help her prepare definitely and permanently for the role of the male in conformity with her real nature all these years...,” Gilbert continued. “Hysterectomy was performed, her hair was cut, a complete male outfit was secured and ... she made her exit as a female and started as a male with a new hold on life and ambitions worthy of her high degree of intellectuality.”
Hart worked with TB patients in Washington State and Idaho before moving to Connecticut, where he earned a master’s in public health from Yale University in 1948 at age 57. He continued his TB work in Connecticut. “Hart worked for the department of public health,” Fishman says. “TB is a public health problem. He was able to combine his interest in radiology with his interest in public health. I imagine his work helped create other programs across the country.”
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Hart worked with TB patients in Washington State and Idaho before moving to Connecticut, where he earned a master’s in public health from Yale University in 1948 at age 57. He continued his TB work in Connecticut. “Hart worked for the department of public health,” Fishman says. “TB is a public health problem. He was able to combine his interest in radiology with his interest in public health. I imagine his work helped create other programs across the country.”
I found an article about this guy who discovered what is called “Dynamic Instruction Scheduling (DIS) but then work got in the way of my surfing. Several months later I resumed my surfing and I couldn’t find the article about “him” instead the article referred to a “Lynn” WAIT A MINUTE! Could she be trans?
Back then you could spot someone from IBM a mile away! They were cut from the same cookie cutter. Buzz top hair cut. Blue sport coat. Thin blue ties with a white shirt. And what really set them off was the pocket protector. Well you can imagine when she told them that she was going to transition.IBM Apologizes For Firing Computer Pioneer For Being Transgender...52 Years Later
Forbes
By Jeremy Alicandri
November 18, 2020You’ve likely never heard of 82-year-old computer scientist Lynn Conway, but her discoveries power your smartphones and computers. Her research led to successful startups in Silicon Valley, supported national defense, and powered the internet.
Long before becoming a highly respected professor at the University of Michigan, Conway was a young researcher with IBM IBM +0.6%. It was there, on August 29, 1968, that IBM’s CEO fired her for reasons that are illegal today. Nearly 52 years later, in an act that defines its present-day culture, IBM apologized and sought forgiveness.
On January 2, 1938, Lynn Conway’s life began in Mount Vernon, NY. With a reported IQ of 155, Conway was an exceptional and inquisitive child who loved math and science during her teens. She went on to study physics at MIT and earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering at Columbia University’s Engineering School.
In 1964, Conway joined IBM Research, where she made major innovations in computer design, ensuring a promising career in the international conglomerate (IBM was the 7th largest corporation in the world at the time). Recently married and with two young daughters, she lived a seemingly perfect life. But Conway faced a profound existential challenge: she had been born as a boy.
Despite cultural clichés at that time, both her immediate family and IBM’s divisional management were accepting and supportive. However, when IBM’s Corporate Medical Director learned of her plans in 1968, he alerted CEO Thomas J. Watson, Jr., who fired Conway to avoid the public embarrassment of employing a transwoman.
The termination turned Conway’s life upside down. The loss of income and looming inability to support her family shattered their plans for a quiet divorce with visitation rights. To worsen matters, California’s Social Services threatened her with a restraining order if she ever attempted to see her children.
She went on to…
In 1977, while leading PARC research into enhanced methods for computer chip design, Conway began co-authoring a book on the methods with Carver Mead, a professor at Caltech. On sabbatical from PARC as a visiting professor at MIT, she created and taught an experimental course on Very Large Scale Integrated (VLSI) chip design based on the draft of her textbook with Mead.
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As awareness spread, so did recognition. Conway received the prestigious James Clerk Maxwell Medal of the IEEE and the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2015 and was awarded honorary doctorates from Illinois Institute of Technology (2014), University of Victoria (2016), and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (2018), where she also gave the Winter 2018 Commencement Address.
If you want to learn more about her you can read about her on her website and other trans success stories here.
Lastly I found out about the next trans person at Trans Week (Formerly know as Fantasia Fair) in Provincetown MA in 2017. There Pioneer Award was given to her.
These last three posts I hope has opened your eye to the highs and lows of the trans community as the attacks by the far-right continues to spread their lies and animosity against us. We are not the single dimension that the Republicans tries to portray us. We are everywhere and leading the way in the arts and sciences.Martine Rothblatt: She founded SiriusXM, a religion and a biotech. For starters.
The Washington Post
By Neely Tucker
December 12, 2014Let's be clear: Martine Rothblatt is just plain more of a lawyer than anybody else in this town.
The 60-year-old grandmother and CEO of United Therapeutics, the Silver Spring-based biotech she founded to help save her younger daughter's life, banked $38 million last year. It made her the nation's highest-paid female executive. It also made her the nation's highest-paid transgendered person, as she had sex reassignment surgery in 1994.
In a lab on Spring Street, Rothblatt's newest project appears lifted from science fiction: disembodied but breathing human lungs, hissing away in dome-shaped incubators, part of a clinical trial attempting to mend donated but not-quite-accepted-for-transplant lungs so that they can actually be placed in living human beings.
On a Virginia farm, she's also raising genetically altered pigs, in the hope that someday their lungs (and other organs) will be modified for use in human transplant, creating a nearly inexhaustible supply of organ donors.
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In the late 1980s, Rothblatt conceived of and created a crazy company devoted to the idea of worldwide satellite radio. Today that’s Sirius XM. It’s in your car’s dashboard, next to the satellite navigation device ... and she was president of Geostar, the first company to market that, too. Her college thesis became the first private satellite phone company.
“She has to my knowledge a perfect track record in making [her] visions real,” Kurzweil writes in an e-mail.
Rothblatt dropped out of the satellite orbit because her and Bina’s daughter was diagnosed at 5 with what is now called pulmonary arterial hypertension, an incurable lung disease. It progressively narrows the lung’s arteries to the point of death. By 12, Jenesis would faint all the time, her life seeping away in intensive care units.
So Rothblatt sold out of Sirius, set to studying biology — the last such course she had taken was in 10th grade — and formed U.T.
One of the books that I like is by Susan Stryker “Transgender History”
We Can Never Forget!
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The future is ours is we are willing to fight for it. We have to vote, and get others to go out and vote.
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