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by peteforde 4634 days ago
I didn't mention sexism or imply gender prejudice, because I don't believe that's what happened here.

I ran this by a female developer for sanity checking, and I like what she came back with: "Transgendered people don't make up 50% of the population. Women do. Female software developers make up 18% of the industry, so if you're not getting 18% women interested in working for/with you, you have a communication problem."

For the record, I have no idea how many of the people on their roster identify as transgendered, and neither do you.

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Edit: This is my complete misreading of the situation. I genuinely apologize.