I don't know if this is the right place to discuss this, but I strongly suspect Bushnell was a trans person. I base this argument on their Twitch channel name, which is Lilyanarkitty.

1. Searching for "anarkitty," besides pointing to Bushnell, gives me the pseudonym of an artist named Emma Geary, a genderfluid fictional character, and a defunct Twitter account who went by QueerfemSchmutz. So, this name has clear gender connotations, ones that are decidedly non-cishet male.

2. The "Lily" is self-explanatory and might be the actual name Bushnell wants to be remembered as. Bushnell chose to record their final moments using a channel name that starts with a fairly common and unambiguous woman's name.

There's also precedent back in 2019 when another anarchist who might have been a trans woman tried firebombing an ICE concentration camp with Molotov cocktails. I forgot what the consensus of van Spronsen's gender identity was, but I remember the argument that van Spronsen was a trans woman to be fairly compelling. I think the main argument was that van Spronsen repeatedly used a pseudonym that was a composite of the names of famous women.

I no longer feel comfortable using Bushnell's reported first name or even using he/him pronouns.

Edit: They had a Reddit account called acebush1. I browsed through some of the posts, and it's consistent with what we know about Bushnell, an anarchist who's also in the USAF. The username also makes sense, "bush" being the shortened form of their last name Bushnell. None of the posts I've seen stands out as eggy at all, but there's also this. If this is true, then Bushnell's original Twitch channel name was just acebush1 that they then changed to lilyanarkitty. So, we can rule out the channel being the channel of Bushnell's hypothetical anarchist partner named Lily.