See http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Kiwicon_2014_expulsion
IMO it was justified, but guess you had to be there.
"It's not compassionate to remind transgender people that they're a minority that often has trouble "passing" and face extreme violence bc of that...if you were a trans woman in the audience who'd been beat up for not being able to pass as cis, how would it make you feel to have that treated like a joke"
Seems reasonable. I retract my previous comment.
See, fuck this. We are all fucked if style begins to trump substance in infosec, like it has in most everything else. Fucking marketing turds. The Grugq is dropping pearls before swine.
Alsp, many speakers are working on their slides and talk minutes before going on. These talks get finished notoriously late
[0] I mean they didn't point to a trans person in the room and say, "You're sticking out!"
"Sticking out like a white guy in a Mayan village" would probably have been non notable so I don't follow how it's offensive by switching the subjects.