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An Open Letter to the Executive Who Quietly Cut the Coverage

To the executive who did it in a spreadsheet, There was no podium and no speech. Just a line item where the trans healthcare benefit used to be, relabeled something tidy like “plan optimization,” approved in a meeting that took four minutes. The people it covered found out the way people always find out about […]

Being Trans in Tech

Tech likes to think of itself as a meritocracy, judging the commit and not the committer. In my experience it judges both, and the second judgment is just quieter. I have watched a room take an idea seriously only after a man repeated it, and I have learned to read the temperature of a stand-up […]