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Aside from the game community, where developers tend to be a bit more public, you might have some issue simply from the fact most developers are kind of reserved with posting who they actually are.
I wouldn't be surprised if tonnes of software you use has trans folk in the dev pipeline maintaining it, but you'd never know cuz their github pfp is just a picture of an anime waifu with a link to their contact info and thats about it.
Considering how many lgbtq+ folks tend to post on dev focused discord channels (the main c# channel literally has a perma rainbow on it), and on their discord profile they will be more open about who they are, it stands to reason tonnes of projects probably have lgbtq+ folks involved.
Like I'm pretty sure if I open the chat history of any of my mainstream dev discords right now and flip through the m9st recent 20 posters in the main chats, I'd find someone openly trans in their profile within 30 secs lol
I've never seen any sort of aggregate repo of "Here's projects you can support!" Anywhere though.
On one hand, that sounds like a cool idea in a perfect world.
On the other, a part of me worries about how much certain people could abuse that and weaponize it though :c
Like I could, unfortunately, 100% see a threat actor leverage it as "Here's a whole target list of projects/maintainers to try and harass/doxx, script kiddies!"
Which sucks.
arch linux discord also has a perma rainbow logo, as well as a dedicated lgbtq channel and like probably 50% of us in there are trans
Alright. I'll cave and buy my socks and setup Arch.
Welcome to the fold, sister 🐧🧦⚧️
Ah that's fair. I do follow some trans game developers but their stuff is streamed/closed-ish source. Good point about the script kiddy threats.