Without knowing her, Lynn Conway has affected my life as far back as Christmas 1985. My parents bought me my very first personal computer at the tender age of 15. Within less than two years I outgrew the capabilities of that Commodore 64. I learned programming from the manuals that came with that computer. And out in the wilderness of South America at that time, those manuals were the only resource available to me. So I had to learn by myself on my own.

But it was around the year 2000 that I found Lynn's website (after she came out of stealth). Over the next 10 or so years her TS success pages have been a huge inspiration for me. To see airline pilots, medical doctors and NASA scientists on that list was a huge boon. Around the end of the shuttle era I recognized one of the TS successes on a press photo from NASA. I even found some other technological tools through the bios of some of those TS successes.

Another benefit, for me, was the fact that only about on third of the listed people worked in show business. And of those only half did some kind of sex work. Thus clearly debunking the prejudice that all TS are prostitutes!!

Just a few weeks back, I ran across an interview with Lynn Conway that she granted for the launch of a comic book that she wrote regarding the history of computers chips. Unfortunately I can not post a link, because the YouTube/Google two factor authentication refuses to play nice with the spotty cell-phone service here in Germany.