Thank you for the inspiration as I continue my gender transition. I appreciate your struggles and dedication to living a life that was "for you" and not for anyone else. RIP.
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Lynn Conway has died
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#53Why does the Wiki page say "citation needed" for calling her a "computer scientist, electrical engineer"?
If you were looking at the same revision I saw, the "citation needed" was on the word "was", and on mouseover said "Please add credible news of death".
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#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is in keeping with their gender identity guidelines. > Former, pre-transition names may only be included if the person was notable while using the name; outside of the main biographical article, such names should only appear once, in a footnote or parentheses.
> if the person was notable while using the name ACS was a notable project and her involvement in it, pre-transition, was notable.
A notable project where her work was confidential.
Her deadname did not have achievements publicly associated with it in the way wikipedia requires.
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#55She spoke at my commencement a few years back. Her story is an interesting one
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That as a child seeing a parent struggle deeply has a very strong impact on their wellbeing?
This is obviously true, but it is unclear had they not undergone transition the children would have come better.
For the children it has probably not been worse than a bad divorce that unfortunately happens way more often. And to pursue the analogy, it is often hard to tell what is best for them, keep an unhappy marriage until they leave the house, or cut it short as soon as possible to leave more time to re-create stability afterwards.
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