Never seen so much transgender representation in the same place before I joined Lemmy and the Arch Linux community. There has to be some correlation/causation stuff with all this and I'm very confused on what it could be.
If this is true, wouldn't psychology or sociology fields have tons of transgender people too? After all, they spend a lot of time thinking about the inner workings of other people, they probably think about themselves as well.
When I was in college it wasn't a meme/trend so it is new in the past decade or so which I find fascinating. My best guess is programming communities are mostly men so trans women and folks questioning (eggs, etc) might just seem more common? idk.
Sorry, I should've said AMAB, not men. As in some people realize they're trans but maybe comp sci attracts AMAB people for some reason. Honestly I'm just grasping at straws and have no idea tbh.
I thought the meme was there were a lot of trans men, not necessarily trans folk in general. I may have misunderstood it. If that's the case I have no hypothesis lol.
Maybe the constant dread and pain in our head makes us seek refuge in the digital world, where we can easylly be and express ourselfs how/who we truly are