In this episode I unpack Menier, Zarch, and Sexton’s (2021) publication titled “Broadening gender in computing for transgender and nonbinary learners,” which is a position paper problematizes the current lack of trans and nonbinary individuals in discourse around gender in CS education.

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00:00 Intro00:24 Abstract

01:24 My single sentence summary

02:15 Paper introduction

05:02 Transgender and nonbinary identities

07:36 Transgender and nonbinary population in the United States

08:26 Campus and in the workplace

09:38 Current gender broadening participation in computing efforts

10:59 The importance of broadening gender in computing

13:57 Lingering questions and thoughts

14:03 In what ways might your CS class or discourse be unintentionally gendered or reinforce a gender binary?

14:43 Why is it we only discuss some gender imbalances and not others?

15:39 Outro