Lesley Carhart Aug 4, 2024
I’m honestly shaken at the number of infosec people, particularly women, who are endorsing and spouting Russian transphobic misinformation about Olympic athletes with added hateful TERF rhetoric. In public, right in front of queer and trans peers. Some I used to consider friends. We all see all of it. It’s absolute hell for trans community members. We need to be calling this crap out for what it is.
Show threadSkarlet
@hacks4pancakes this is something I have dealt with a lot especially in some of the defcon groups and at conventions and I find that no one really cares when I bring it up it just falls on def ears cause I'm not an influencer in our field or anything.
Aug 4, 2024 at 3:42amWeb
Show threadLesley Carhart Aug 4, 2024
@Skarlet I think that makes me responsible to 😥
Show threadSkarletAug 4, 2024
@hacks4pancakes speaking as a trans person myself, I think talking about transphobia in our industry is exhausting and for those at the beginning or midpoint in our cyber journey it can become a hindrance to working because then we become a "complainer" or viewed as difficult or any number of stereotypes imposed on women and minority group to make excuses to not hire or work with us.