@fasterthanlime
Congrats on all of this!!

(also that bit about iel pronouns got me somewhere between enthusiastic nodding and "same hat!", hehe. they feel so different from them/them...)

For the line:
> [...] while some were betting on whether I was secretly a beautiful trans women, the truth was much more terrible still: I was a devops all along!
for some reason this part was really fun to read, but also: is the "women"(plural) part on purpose? were some folks also betting on plurality?