Lynn Conway #TransformTheFuture @INWED1919 #INWED19

Lynn Conway is a Professor Emerita, member of the National Academy of Engineering and principal author of the Mead-Conway text who is known for her activism as well as the invention of generalized dynamic instruction handling.

From Lynn Conway:

My initial goal for this website was to illuminate and normalize the issues of gender identity and the processes of gender transition. This project began in the year 2000, as I struggled to “come out” about my past to my research colleagues. I wanted to tell in my own words the story of my gender transition from male to female three decades earlier, in 1968, and then of being outed by circumstances 31 years later, in 1999, while living quietly and successfully in ‘stealth mode’.

Since beginning work on this website, I’ve come into contact with ever growing numbers of people concerned with gender issues. I’ve interacted via e-mail and in personal meetings with large numbers of people who are transitioning or who have transitioned. Given the still-remaining social invisibility, ignorance and superstitions about gender conditions, I’ve felt a strong need to provide whatever information, encouragement and hope that I can to help others who are struggling with these issues.

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