During Gamergate, I followed several 'trans' people including @secretgamergirl. If I'd known what he fucking looked like i'd have started asking 'hang on, what exactly does trans mean again?' a lot sooner.

It does make me wonder what else I got wrong during that period. I always thought GG was clear-cut: alt-right arseholes manipulating kids to harm women in the gaming industry. I also thought it was only gamergaters who were pretending to be women to spread confusion. (My much screenshotted comment "You're a man pretending to be a woman" was a conversation with a gamergater.)

But now I see this guy, whose dysphoria is so bad he has a beard that's almost meeting up with his ass hair, and I wonder how many other aspects of it were hidden from me, and how many chancers there were on 'my' side.