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If you would like to be treated like everyone else, why make an effort to start a group that separates you?

I would not have any problem working with (or for) someone who is transgender.

And if by treated like everyone else, you mean we want to be treated like men that are expected to behave like men or face fear of being fired, or like women that are expected to be nice about it when they get objectified, because that's how everyone else is treated, then no, we don't want an unethical system to accept us. We want everyone to be treated ethically, and fixing things for the nth, most fringe case, fixes things for the less fringe, n-1,n-2,n-3... cases.

It doesn`t seperate us, it plugs us in to the wider sphere of mentors and investors that YC would be plugging me into if they accept me. Transpeople have atypical issues, and would feel more comfortable with other transpeople being the initial point of contact for something as personally challenging as launching a startup. Some have intermediate psychological or logistical barriers to participation cispeople cannot identify with. Think of it like prep school for YC, that operates at 1/10 the scale, solely online, and creates entrepreneurs through active recruiting and entrepreneurial tutoring, rather than waiting for already existing entrepreneurs to apply; a 25% charity, 75% seed venture capital firm and trans-social good movement, and YC loves a movement.

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