I think I can leave you all introduce yourselves and share whatever you want to do right now in your intro. Aoife , go ahead. Hi.My name is Aoife Martin.
Aoife , go ahead. Hi.My name is Aoife Martin. I'm a senior software engineer with MasterCard.
I'm close. And he's second oldest and Stuart is and then we have our a gap. a gap at Chris and and Aoife somehow aren't in social media. Don't you find that it's it's age-related? I mean, do your parents go on you know, social media? Yeah, they watch videos of of me and my brothers, yeah.
If I ask this to the females in the room, what do you wear underneath, I would get in a lot of trouble. So you watch yourself, Aoife . So my name is Finlay.
This is Ireland. We support trans people in this country. Do you want to add something to this, Aoife ?
But thank you for sharing this, Finlay. And when I think of reaction of putting yourself out there, I know Aoife , you had a different experience whenever you came out at work. I'd like you, if you're OK, sharing this story of you coming out at work at MasterCard, but also somehow comparing this reaction you had when you came
Yeah, sure. So it was about two years ago. Actually, it was 2016, where I came out as Aoife . I mean, I spoke to my HR manager before I came out.
So it was quite easy in that respect. And we agreed that I would come back to work in January, 2016, as Aoife . And I said, well, who do we need to tell?
You know, if somebody comes out as gay, you don't go, oh, let's announce it to the entire company. So there was no big announcement, that, oh, Aoife is coming back in January. And she will be a different person.
This is Ireland. We support trans people in this country. But specifically to some minorities, I think we would have to develop a stronger sense of empathy, as in, oh, I'm aware Aoife may not feel good today for X, Y,
and my first thought was absolutely. This is, you know, if they think so. And they said, you know, Aoife and we all thought absolutely. And that's really strange because usually, you know, you check out roommates, you check out, you know, you go on Craigslist, you do all