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 May 26, 2025 12:19 pm

Hat tip Tarantino, we have a pic:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ ... ov2022.jpg

Who can't understand why Mr. Mburugu might have found it difficult to control himself around such an unearthly beauty. Not his fault.
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Tarantino wrote: Kayla Mae must be Kayla Morgan. It's odd that they're using a different name in the lawsuit. They also appear to be using a third name that includes Kayla.
It just looks like she is going through the process of settling on a new name.
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Re: Lawsuit: Wikipedia fired transgender worker who complained about harassment

Post by ericbarbour » Mon May 26, 2025 9:52 pm

Man would that suck.
It always has and it will continue to do so. Letting tragic nerds run your "informational" website is a bad idea. The result is predictable: some actual facts mixed in with a mountain of crap about cartoons, videogames, and other nerd-friendly drivel. Regardless of their genital status.

Gender Desk ran an item about the Kayla lawsuit today. Predictably. Otherwise I can find NO media coverage of the story. As usual, the media are ignoring a possible WMF scandal, albeit a very petty one.

Kayla's locked-down Meta page tells us everything we want to know. Even if we don't want to know it. I can find no evidence that Kayla ever edited WP content, though it's quite possible she used socks.

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

Post by boredbird » Mon May 26, 2025 10:40 pm

ericbarbour wrote:
Mon May 26, 2025 9:52 pm
Kayla's locked-down Meta page tells us everything we want to know. Even if we don't want to know it.
Kayla Morgan wrote: Very active in the Texas LARP scene
Former professional Magic: the Gathering player (2010-2018)

I'm an LGBTQ and Intersex activist, especially focused on transgender issues. I also try to bring awareness to nontraditional relationships and commitment ceremonies like Ethical Non-Monogamy and Handfasting.
I didn't know there were professional Magic: the Gathering players.

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

Post by ericbarbour » Mon May 26, 2025 10:48 pm

boredbird wrote:
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I didn't know there were professional Magic: the Gathering players.
If so, you clearly don't deal with hopeless nerds very much.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category: ... ng_players

Rather long list, isn't it?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_p ... ng_players
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Re: Lawsuit: Wikipedia fired transgender worker who complained about harassment

Post by ericbarbour » Mon May 26, 2025 10:56 pm

PS: last year, a Black Lotus card sold for $3 million......

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

Post by badmachine » Wed May 28, 2025 7:04 pm

boredbird wrote:
Mon May 26, 2025 12:19 pm
Hat tip Tarantino, we have a pic:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ ... ov2022.jpg

Who can't understand why Mr. Mburugu might have found it difficult to control himself around such an unearthly beauty. Not his fault.
Charliebware wrote:
Tarantino wrote: Kayla Mae must be Kayla Morgan. It's odd that they're using a different name in the lawsuit. They also appear to be using a third name that includes Kayla.
It just looks like she is going through the process of settling on a new name.
S/he’s literally the smugjak meme. Behold:
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Re: Lawsuit: Wikipedia fired transgender worker who complained about harassment

Post by Ognistysztorm » Thu May 29, 2025 4:00 pm

The Desk: Woman fired by Wikipedia parent after harassment speaks out
https://thedesk.net/2025/05/wikipedia-t ... ae-speaks/
On Tuesday, Mae took to Reddit to offer her first public comments about her short employment at the Wikimedia Foundation and the subsequent wrongful termination lawsuit that was filed.
Mae said that the “bigotry” expressed in her lawsuit is “organization wide” and that most of her former colleagues “are as against the problems in leadership as I was.”
“Unfortunately, I became the squeaky wheel for management to retaliate against by reporting the discrimination to [human resources] instead of quietly leaving like others did,” Mae wrote.
“When I was fired, I received several emails from former co-workers expressing concern at WMF’s leadership, and similar stories of people terminated in suspicious ways,” Mae said, using the initialism for the Wikimedia Foundation.
“One person called Suman a ‘fixer’ who goes after employees that were seen as stirring the pot,” Mae continued.
The Reddit thread in question is this at a LGBT sub. For a moment some of the comments seems to be removed, before getting restored and a new comment posted and pinned by the subreddit moderators.

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

Post by boredbird » Thu May 29, 2025 7:49 pm

So "Kayla" gets this Matthew Keys dude to run some piece quoting xim but can't be bothered to submit a sworn statement to the court.

https://thedesk.net/2025/05/wikipedia-t ... ae-speaks/
https://www.pacermonitor.com/public/cas ... ation,_Inc_
Kayla Mae wrote: Unfortunately, I became the squeaky wheel for management to retaliate against by reporting the discrimination to [human resources] instead of quietly leaving like others did
The squeaky wheel is supposed to get the grease, not the can!

Very trustworthy reporter.

https://www.wired.com/2016/04/journalis ... anonymous/
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/201 ... ournalism/

Similar look, he's probably transitioning too. Why no pic of the lovely plaintiff? No real name either but I suppose some will say that's a good thing.

I don't know why Kayla would be yapping away on social media. Probably the real threat is "pay me or I will keep saying bad things about you!"

Imagine being Wikimedia, how angry you'd be. We bent over backwards in every possible way, we hired them far out of proportion to their numbers, we made them half the administrators and arbitrators, we ditched the neutrality policy to let them push their kookery, we banned everyone who disagreed and this is the thanks we get.

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

Post by Ognistysztorm » Thu May 29, 2025 9:12 pm

boredbird wrote:
Thu May 29, 2025 7:49 pm
So "Kayla" gets this Matthew Keys dude to run some piece quoting xim but can't be bothered to submit a sworn statement to the court.

https://thedesk.net/2025/05/wikipedia-t ... ae-speaks/
https://www.pacermonitor.com/public/cas ... ation,_Inc_
Kayla Mae wrote: Unfortunately, I became the squeaky wheel for management to retaliate against by reporting the discrimination to [human resources] instead of quietly leaving like others did
The squeaky wheel is supposed to get the grease, not the can!

Very trustworthy reporter.

https://www.wired.com/2016/04/journalis ... anonymous/
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/201 ... ournalism/

Similar look, he's probably transitioning too. Why no pic of the lovely plaintiff? No real name either but I suppose some will say that's a good thing.

I don't know why Kayla would be yapping away on social media. Probably the real threat is "pay me or I will keep saying bad things about you!"

Imagine being Wikimedia, how angry you'd be. We bent over backwards in every possible way, we hired them far out of proportion to their numbers, we made them half the administrators and arbitrators, we ditched the neutrality policy to let them push their kookery, we banned everyone who disagreed and this is the thanks we get.
Well since Kayla has deleted their comments on Reddit I can surmise that she must be rattled by the doxxings (especially by some on WO) and so on. Why don't we move some sensitive posts into the members-only area so that she can be encouraged to turn everyone against WMF and help us achieve HTD?

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

Post by ericbarbour » Thu May 29, 2025 11:39 pm

Ognistysztorm wrote:
Thu May 29, 2025 4:00 pm
The Reddit thread in question is this at a LGBT sub. For a moment some of the comments seems to be removed, before getting restored and a new comment posted and pinned by the subreddit moderators.
I'm looking at it now, and there are NO comments visible at all--out of 43 total. The only archive at Wayback, taken yesterday, says "Sorry, this post has been removed by the moderators of r/ainbow.". Then it "magically reappeared" with no comments. Classic Reddit.

A white trans woman claiming a black man harassed her. Imagine the screaming matches this must be generating online. All happening out of public sight, because it's extremely cringe. I bet dear little Kayla is realizing this was a bad idea.
Well since Kayla has deleted their comments on Reddit I can surmise that she must be rattled by the doxxings (especially by some on WO) and so on. Why don't we move some sensitive posts into the members-only area so that she can be encouraged to turn everyone against WMF and help us achieve HTD?
Hopeless. It never works out like that. The WMF has far more and better lawyers than she can afford. It's a doomed attempt at making a public scandal. The cult will circle the wagons against ANY threat. Probably be thrown out of court on some or other minor pretext.

I'm leaving this up and encouraging all of you to post more, if it appears. (This is the only WPO thread I can see. Paltry, albeit with some useful links. Wonder if there's more pissing in the "seekret area". How nice to see that Andythegrump is still a little pissant.)
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