The ultimate approach is to take advantage of the fact that they already control the food and water supply of their employees, and simply dose them with plastics until they achieve the desired gender balance.

(via rationalists-out-of-context)

Putting the humor aside – this does create awkward questions for the trans discourse.  I mean, in a hypothetical world where Google has achieved rough gender parity, but 90% of the women are trans women, would that actually be taken as resolving the problem that people are complaining about?

(Yes, I understand that not enough people are trans for this to be more than a hypothetical.  Least convenient possible parallel universe…)

As long as the intentional dosing plan was secret, or merely crackpot rumors, yeah, if anything that would be more satisfactory than an even ratio of biowomen, to literally everyone except the radfems/second wavers and conservatives who disapprove of both women in the workplace and trans people.

(via isaacsapphire)

This is why one should not say “achieving gender parity at Google is my terminal value.”