Not sure, but I did find this section from
his/her article's Talk Page to be funny:
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"We definitely can't base our information on how big people's noses appear in photographs."
Middle aged, turbosperg, 90s computer programmer; my
guess is that he's a tranny, and the "passing" picture above is a combination of being taken years ago, high contrast/angle, and lots of makeup.
The offending article where the ancient pagan chroniclers commit the grievous sin of MISGENDERING A MAN is available on the SegaRetro site (
GamePlayers vol 9 issue 7); I believe this is the photo of Chris in question:
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and here is the rest of the article:
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Scary (and morbidly hilarious) to think that you could write a sidebar for a kids' magazine this short and innocuous in the 90s, only to potentially lose your reputation, friend group, and career because of it, less than thirty years later.
Even if that is not a photo of Coffin, and the author somehow boomer'd the caption on a design team of five or so people, the fact remains that if a "hot girl" was working at Sega in '97, and some Gen X journo was asked to write an article about her coding team, I can 100% assure you that the journo would have the girl front and center, with multiple pictures and maybe a covert cleavage shot or two. Occam's Razor says that Chris is a dude who trooned out later, probably in the 2000s, and as Talk Page Guy speculates, is trying his best to remain "stealth" a la fellow Old Man Troon, Wu.