> Upon completing her transition in 1968, Conway took a new name and identity, and restarted her career in what she called "stealth-mode". (From https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Conway)
She managed to have groundbreaking impact in two disconnected careers after restarting from scratch!
If you've never experienced the sort of depersonalization and disconnection from our embodied selves that many of us trans people have, you have no clue how difficult it can be to do anything at all.
"A US study showed that [trans] individuals have lower socioeconomic status despite of having higher education level" https://www.researchgate.net/publication/339204814_Transgend...
"Three out of 10 transgender adults lost their jobs recently or live with someone who did. [Compared to] One out of 10 cisgender men" https://publicintegrity.org/inside-publici/newsletters/watch...
"58% could not get academic transcripts with the correct name or sex designation" https://www.ourspectrum.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Workp...
"Transgender workers report unemployment at twice the rate of the population as a whole (14% vs. 7% at the time the workers were surveyed)." "More than four in 10 transgender people (44%) who are currently working are underemployed." "Transgender workers are nearly four times more likely than the population as a whole to have a household income of under $10,000 (15% vs. 4% at the time the workers were surveyed)." https://www.thetaskforce.org/transgender-workers-at-greater-...
"nearly 30 percent of transgender people in the United States are not in the workforce and are twice as likely as the cisgender population to be unemployed." https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/coronavirus-leadi...
"Transphobia rife among UK employers as 1 in 3 won't hire a transgender person" https://www.crosslandsolicitors.com/site/hr-hub/transgender-...
"Almost half of transgender people are unemployed, a survey by the Think-tank for Action on Social Change has found. Among the 51 per cent cent who had jobs, many settled for dismal salaries, the group’s research showed." https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/half-of-transgender-peopl...
"The unemployment rate for transgender and gender nonconforming respondents in Ontario has been estimated to be 20%, more than double the provincial average." https://www.hrpa.ca/hr-insights/the-hrpa-celebrates-gender-e....
"Trans Pulse Canada found that 24 percent of trans people have an annual income under $15,000, while 24 percent have an income between $15,000 and $30,000. With a poverty line of individual income at $25,920, almost half of trans people live either below the poverty line, or very close to it." https://xtramagazine.com/health/trans-health-canada-health-i...
"Employment: over one in three trans respondents felt discriminated against because of being trans when looking for a job (37 %), and a quarter (27 %) reported discrimination at work." https://fra.europa.eu/sites/default/files/fra-2015-being-tra...
"Controlling for these and other observed characteristics, transgender individuals have significantly lower employment rates" https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0019793920902776