Editing Lynn Conway (section)

==Gender transition==
After learning about [[Harry Benjamin]]'s pioneering research in healthcare for [[transsexual women]], which included the feasibility of [[sex reassignment surgery]], Conway sought his assistance. Struggling with severe [[clinical depression]] due to gender dysphoria, she contacted Benjamin, who agreed to provide counseling and prescribed [[Hormone replacement therapy (male-to-female)|hormone replacement therapy]], which Conway resumed in 1967.<ref name=hiltzik>Hiltzik, Michael A. (November 19, 2000.) [https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/64332921.html?dids=64332921:64332921&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Nov+19%2C+2000&author=MICHAEL+A.+HILTZIK&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&edition=&startpage=1&desc=COVER+STORY%3B+Through+the+Gender+Labyrinth%3B+How+a+bright+boy+with+a+penchant+for+tinkering+grew+up+to+be+one+of+the+top+women+in+her+high-+tech+field "Through the Gender Labyrinth."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121015144026/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/64332921.html?dids=64332921:64332921&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Nov+19,+2000&author=MICHAEL+A.+HILTZIK&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&edition=&startpage=1&desc=COVER+STORY%3B+Through+the+Gender+Labyrinth%3B+How+a+bright+boy+with+a+penchant+for+tinkering+grew+up+to+be+one+of+the+top+women+in+her+high-+tech+field |date=October 15, 2012 }}. ''Los Angeles Times'', Los Angeles Times Magazine, page 1. ([https://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/Media/Through%20the%20Gender%20Labyrinth.pdf Free reprint] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230109104049/http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/Media/Through%20the%20Gender%20Labyrinth.pdf |date=January 9, 2023 }}. Retrieved on September 19, 2007.)</ref>

While struggling with life in a male role, Conway had married a woman in 1963 and had two children. Under the legal constraints then in place, she was denied access to their children after transitioning.<ref name=hiltzik/>

Although she had hoped to be allowed to transition on the job, IBM fired Conway in 1968 after she revealed her intention to transition.<ref name="Conway2012">{{cite journal |last=Conway |first=Lynn |year=2012 |title=Reminiscences of the VLSI revolution: How a series of failures triggered a paradigm shift in digital design |journal=IEEE Solid-State Circuits Magazine |publisher=IEEE |volume=4 |issue=4 |pages=8–31 |issn=1943-0582 |doi=10.1109/MSSC.2012.2215752 |s2cid=9286356 |url=https://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/Memoirs/VLSI/Lynn_Conway_VLSI_Reminiscences.pdf |access-date=February 17, 2023 |archive-date=January 18, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230118184820/http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/Memoirs/VLSI/Lynn_Conway_VLSI_Reminiscences.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2020, IBM publicly apologized to Conway for firing her at a public event with Diane Gherson, then IBM's senior vice president of human relations. At the event, Conway was awarded the IBM Lifetime Achievement Award for her work at IBM and later work.<ref name=":0">{{cite news |last1=Alicandri |first1=Jeremy |title=IBM Apologizes For Firing Computer Pioneer For Being Transgender...52 Years Later |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeremyalicandri/2020/11/18/ibm-apologizes-for-firing-computer-pioneer/?sh=25cf659667d5 |access-date=November 21, 2020 |agency=Forbes |date=November 18, 2020 |archive-date=April 13, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210413101530/https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeremyalicandri/2020/11/18/ibm-apologizes-for-firing-computer-pioneer/?sh=25cf659667d5 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=":1">{{cite web |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeremyalicandri/2020/11/18/ibm-apologizes-for-firing-computer-pioneer/ |title=IBM Apologizes For Firing Computer Pioneer For Being Transgender...52 Years Later |first=Jeremy |last=Alicandri |website=Forbes |access-date=November 21, 2020 |archive-date=November 21, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201121030013/https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeremyalicandri/2020/11/18/ibm-apologizes-for-firing-computer-pioneer/ |url-status=live }}</ref>