<i>I&#x27;d have thought if anything, we&#x27;d be more trusting and supportive of the person disclosing a picture, name, etc. (the criteria used for gender identification).</i><p>Why though?  My experience is that aside from everyone&#x27;s monkeysphere, people generally tend to hate other people.<p>Social media where you interact with a higher than Dunbar number of people (ie Not Facebook) is often just a nasty status game.<p>Humanizing a pull request can bring all sorts of baggage from that into the evaluation of a contained block of ideas.