Lawsuit: Wikipedia fired transgender worker who complained about harassment

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Re: Lawsuit: Wikipedia fired transgender worker who complained about harassment

Post by boredbird » Mon Jun 02, 2025 9:45 pm

ericbarbour wrote:
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If Reddit cured Wikipedia, u/LiYBeL would be sane today.
That's a weird one.....how do you find them?
u/LiYBeL is "Kayla Mae's" Reddit account or at least one of them. Lots of deletions this past week.
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Re: Lawsuit: Wikipedia fired transgender worker who complained about harassment

Post by boredbird » Fri Jun 06, 2025 5:05 pm

So here's this other lawsuit much to quote but this stands out
Kayla Mae v. Security Brands wrote: Mae is a lesbian female who presents as masculine. She is sometimes perceived as transgender, although she is not.
On one occasion shortly after she began working for Defendant, the President and Chief Executive Officer of the company, Chris Brown, said, “That’s the dyke,” in reference to Mae.
https://thedesk.net/wp-content/uploads/ ... ds-min.pdf

What's the chance that anyone anywhere ever thought this person was a "masculine presenting" woman? That's the autogyno fantasy talking, just wishful projection. In the actual filing!

Based upon the above it's fair to conclude that Mr. Mae is not above even the rankest most obvious perjury.

Looks like even Mr. Keys may be starting to wonder.
Matthew Keys wrote: That is different from what Mae alleges in the case against Wikimedia Foundation
https://thedesk.net/2025/06/kayla-mae-w ... t-sinkule/
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Re: Lawsuit: Wikipedia fired transgender worker who complained about harassment

Post by badmachine » Sat Jun 07, 2025 5:05 pm

At Security Brands, the human resources director reportedly told Mae that she didn’t “agree with your lifestyle” and encouraged her to “follow Jesus” one week before terminating her employment.
This sounds like my kind of workplace :)


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Re: Lawsuit: Wikipedia fired transgender worker who complained about harassment

Post by ericbarbour » Sun Jun 08, 2025 7:41 am

Still doesn't count as a major news outlet. They DO have a WP article.....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBTQ_Nation
...created in 2021 by someone who leans left but also makes me suspect paid editing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?ti ... 1010778768
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Re: Lawsuit: Wikipedia fired transgender worker who complained about harassment

Post by badmachine » Sun Jun 08, 2025 8:01 pm

Interesting that they didn’t mention her duplicity when filing her other lawsuit. Also they claimed Katherine Maher is still CEO of Wikimedia Foundation.
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Still doesn't count as a major news outlet. They DO have a WP article.....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBTQ_Nation
...created in 2021 by someone who leans left but also makes me suspect paid editing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?ti ... 1010778768
User:Chillabit looks more like a gay person on the left. They edited that German tranny institute and other lefty stuff including negative stuff about /pol/ and so on. To me it looks more like a garden variety partisan.

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Re: Lawsuit: Wikipedia fired transgender worker who complained about harassment

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Re: Lawsuit: Wikipedia fired transgender worker who complained about harassment

Post by ericbarbour » Wed Jun 18, 2025 5:51 am

Ognistysztorm wrote:
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In other news, Uzbek Wikipedia is having a #MeToo moment.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Univers ... _Wikipedia
For reference, Nataev told me what was going on in Uzbek WP, back in 2013. That was the first and ONLY insight we had ever gotten about uz-WP. I am not surprised that some nerds have ganged up to get rid of Nataev. Very corrupt and paranoid country, so OF COURSE the corresponding wiki is censored and chopped up. But somewhat different from the Kazakh WP, which was openly controlled by the government....with the full cooperation of the WMF and Jimbo.
https://wikipediocracy.com/forum/viewto ... =14&t=3404&
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