Microsoft's sex change

[jessica_m1978]

BY OWEN THOMAS
http://valleywag.com/tech/transitions/microsofts-sex-change-309008.php

Michael Wallent, a general manager at Microsoft, will return to work in January as Megan Wallent. He came out to colleagues as transgender last month, first in person and then by email. Wallent says he encountered nothing but support -- mixed, of course, with some

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[jessica_m1978]

To start, I initially heard about this on OutQ on Sirius on my way home from work. I'm a little irritated that I do a google search on "microsoft transsexual blog" (she had a blog documenting her transition) and there isn't a single mainstream news source in the first ten results. In a society where celebritant DUIs are front page news, I'm fairly insulted that this one mainstream news source couldn't show up in the top ten fucking google results. But imagine that; mainstream media doesn't want to show anything that might portray a transsexual person in a positive light

[wintermira]

I've been keeping an eye on this story as well, as I start work there in a couple months time.