Katherine Cummings is known for her great work with Sydney Australia's Gender Centre.

  In Katherine Cummings biography, " Katherine's Diary " the suggestion was made that you can't throw a tennis ball into a group of engineers without hitting a cross-dresser.

The big question is - IS THIS TRUE ?

   Kindest regards, Kirsten. ( Engineer ). xx

My understanding is that one man in twenty crossdresses. Not sure what the number of
women crossdressing is.

Hugs, Devlyn

I would have thought from what I have heard anecdotally that it is more likely to be someone working somewhere in IT...have not heard the engineers thing but I think there are a fair few of them here...Roll call!!    how many engineers do we have  ...quite a few I think 

Take care

Liz

Quote from: LizK on November 26, 2018, 01:39:23 AM
I would have thought from what I have heard anecdotally that it is more likely to be someone working somewhere in IT...have not heard the engineers thing but I think there are a fair few of them here...Roll call!!  [emoji23]  how many engineers do we have  ...quite a few I think 

Take care

Liz

I firmly believe if you toss a tennis ball into a room full of IT professionals you will hit 10 cross-dressers & 5 transsexuals.

Kindest regards, Kirsten.

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Quote from: Kirsteneklund7 on November 26, 2018, 12:27:37 AM
Katherine Cummings is known for her great work with Sydney Australia's Gender Centre.

  In Katherine Cummings biography, " Katherine's Diary " the suggestion was made that you can't throw a tennis ball into a group of engineers without hitting a cross-dresser.

The big question is - IS THIS TRUE ?

   Kindest regards, Kirsten. ( Engineer ). xx

Well...I went into the wrong career field.

Quote from: GingerVicki on November 26, 2018, 02:07:49 AM
Well...I went into the wrong career field.

I hid in plain sight, I was a nurse...

Quote from: GingerVicki on November 26, 2018, 02:07:49 AM
Well...I went into the wrong career field.

What field did you go into GingerVicki?

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Must say there seems to be a few vehicle mechanics on here (myself included)

Quote from: Kirsteneklund7 on November 26, 2018, 02:04:54 AM
I firmly believe if you toss a tennis ball into a room full of IT professionals you will hit 10 cross-dressers & 5 transsexuals.

Leave transsexual IT professionals alone. 

Give me some credit though, having no college degree or great occupational ambitions, I worked in the pink collar sector from the time I got my first job as a secretary/receptionist at 19 and did that kind of stuff until I was 40 and found a way out of working in offices. Who even knew I had a knack for IT stuff?

"pink collar sector". 

Quote from: Lisa_K on November 26, 2018, 03:42:34 AM
Leave transsexual IT professionals alone. 

Give me some credit though, having no college degree or great occupational ambitions, I worked in the pink collar sector from the time I got my first job as a secretary/receptionist at 19 and did that kind of stuff until I was 40 and found a way out of working in offices. Who even knew I had a knack for IT stuff?

I also firmly believe transsexuals have a knack for creative thought and therefore computer troubleshooting and programing. I also wonder if there is an element of being a bit different ie Geek factor !

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Quote from: Kirsteneklund7 on November 26, 2018, 02:04:54 AM
I firmly believe if you toss a tennis ball into a room full of IT professionals you will hit 10 cross-dressers & 5 transsexuals.

Kindest regards, Kirsten.

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I'm in IT.....maybe that's just another sign I never paid attention to all these years [emoji1787][emoji23][emoji28]

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Quote from: davina61 on November 26, 2018, 03:36:41 AM
Must say there seems to be a few vehicle mechanics on here (myself included)

I would love to have access to a transwoman mechanic in the Northern Territory where I live. I think I will just have to carry on with repairs & maintenance myself - en femme of course !

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Worked in IT almost my whole career

Retired engineer here! Someone I used to work with transitioned years ago. So that's 2 here.

I was in IT for most of my career.  I think the field appeals to people struggling to find themselves.  Computers don't judge.  Back in the days before Microsoft Windows, they didn't bully, either. 

I'm still techsup and planning to learn coding though I believe it mostly because it doesn't connected with my gender identity.

I plead guilty to both charges, your honor.

Although I retired from a 25 year engineering career, I was pretty much our outfit's IT lead.

It's really my own fault. During my second interview, I stupidly admitted that I had spent more than a few years babysitting Big Blue mainframes and still had a reasonably fluent knowledge of Fortran and Cobol.

Oops. When will I learn to keep my trap shut?

Susan

 I worked as an electronics engineer designing microwave amplifiers and oscillators prior to my transition.  Post transition none of the companies I used to design stuff for would hire me. I literally had one of the owners of one place tell me if it were up to them they would hire me, but his partners thought having a trans employee would be too disruptive.
I Had to sell my house at a loss and move to where nobody knows my past, I now work as a technician in the same field as I do not have a degree in engineering, just years of knowledge and experience.  Upside I am much happier now just being myself without the baggage of my past. 

Try that with actors and artists, I think almost all of the former are at it. They can always say it's work-related.