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I went to my transgender support group yesterday. There weren't many of us there. We usually get more attendees.

But it swung around to employment, and who does what for a job. All of us were in our thirties or younger except for the facilitator who is in her late sixties.

Employent basically went --
IT/computers - 3(including me)
Manufacturing Line Worker - 1(But wants to do graphic arts and or drafting and has done it but not professionally)
Social Work - 1

Then I thought back over all the members of the trans community I know. I realized that there is quite a bit of the technical/logical careers represented in the employment of those I know who are transgender. None of the other ones have any form of Autism I know about although a few have other conditions, both mental and physical.

Digital/Electronic Musician - 1
Health/Medical - 2
Pilot - 1
Engineer - 2
Graphic artist - 1
Mechanic - 1
Manufacturing Line Worker - 1(2)
IT - 4(now a total of 7)
Logistics - 3

There are a number of students, two political activists, and several who are on various disability.

I'm not saying this is representative of the whole T community, but the very small slice I interact with, seems to have the technical career fields over represented. Am I alone in having this happen with the T community in my area, or is this a thing elsewhere?

I have a FTM friend and he's a sewing machine person. I would say seamstress, but that applies to females xD I don't quite think 'tailor' is the male word, but I'm going with tailor anyway

My other FTM friend is into video game design.

One MTF friend is animation

Another MTF friend, she's at uni studying computer science/artificial intelligence.

One androygnous friend who may as well be FTM as we all know they'd rather be a man, they did psychology, and are fully qualified and stuffs.

I don't want to stereotype transgender, but I guess they do have quite technical, or complicated fields. One of those things I guess, it must be because they're all so cool

Perhaps it's an artifact from people in those fields being able to express themselves with less problems? Someone in a more "masculine" field might have a harder problem coming out... also, technical fields are usually higher paying, so they can afford it more?

I really think that it's related to brain layout. The job pattern seems closer to birth gender than to new gender, even if transitioned before joining the workforce.

This is entirely anecdotal, although; knowing for sure would require something empirical.

I'm a low-level computer programmer, so I fit the pattern of having a male-dominated job as an MTF transgender person. "Low-level" in this context refers to the type of code I write--interacting close to hardware--not being low in a corporate hierarchy or inexperienced.