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Trans woman harassed on Deadlock happy her voice training is working (hard-drive.net)

submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/theonion

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Local woman Skye Meadows, better known by her in-game display name TheValidValkyrie, has found gender affirmation in an unexpected place: the voice chat of early access MOBA shooter Deadlock.

“It was really weird,” said Meadows. “I was calling for support left in voice chat and one of my teammates just called me a bitch. Later in the game that same guy tried to 1v3 and asked if I was ‘too busy making sandwiches’ to help him when he died. It was annoying at first, but then I realized he was harassing me because I sound like a girl.” [...]

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

There was a subreddit called accidental ally or something like that with tons of posts like this