About me

Hello, my name is Emi Gutekanst (pronounced like ‘Emmy’); I was born with the name Stephen Gutekanst and assigned male at birth, I hid myself from all family/friends/coworkers for ~15 years of my life before coming out publicly as a trans girl following the 2024 US election results.

This page is a tl;dr for coworkers, professional peers, etc. who want to quickly understand how to respect me.

What are your pronouns?

She/her.

If you slip up and call me ‘he’, ‘him’, ‘dude’, ‘hey man’, etc. or my old name, you don’t need to apologize or anything - I’ve been hearing that my whole life and a few more times won’t hurt me. =) I understand that many people have never interacted with a trans person before, and I am very understanding of where you are coming from and how tricky breaking habbits can be. As long as you try your best to respect me, I’ll appreciate you for that! =)

I also accept they/them pronouns, in case that is more comfortable for anyone interacting with me!

Where can I read more about your journey?

I wrote about it in this blog post (warning: contains mild profanity and political statements.)

Where can I find you?

You can find me doing open source work on GitHub, sharing technical and other opinions on Hacker news, or here.

I write about game development, am building Mach, the Zig game engine, and when I’m not working with computers you can usually find me wrangling my small cat shelter’s worth of kittos - or gardening.

What is this website?

This website’s purpose is to replace my old usage of Twitter, so now you can have an RSS feed to my dumb ideas instead.

This is my ’less professional’ personal blog, you can find my professional technical writing here.