52 Years Later, IBM Apologizes for Firing Transgender Woman

In 1968, Lynn Conway worked for IBM. However, after the CEO at the time, Thomas J. Watson Jr., learned that she’d be undergoing a gender transition, she was fired. The New York Times recently published an article detailing IBM’s apology, 52 years later, for the action taken against Conway.

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