>>13950I remember having a book about video game history back in the mid 2000s, and I was really confused when Dan Bunten was brought up. They were calling him "Dani Bunten Berry" and referring to him in female terms, but the vintage game box art or promotional material that was reproduced in the book clearly called him "Dan Bunten" and I think showed him as a bearded man. I knew trannies existed back then, but I wasn't familiar enough with them to have any frame of reference for anything like that. I don't think I knew of any real-world cases of anyone "transitioning" and didn't put much thought into the idea (I think I might have genuinely believed there was surgery out there that would change your sex) so I really couldn't process it. The poor guy seemed to end up regretting what he did. He openly advised people not to follow his lead unless it was a last resort and said that he'd become a worse programmer since trooning out.
My first time encountering a troon in the wild was a tranny mod temporarily banning me from the GameSpot forums maybe a few years after that. That was still a bit before the tranny thing had become such a hot-button issue, but it seems like they'd already been moving toward court eunuch status even then.