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[–] infeeeee@lemmy.zip 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

!civ@lemm.ee merged with the existing !civ@lemmy.ca

 

Lemm.ee will shut down, I requested to become the moderator of the existing !civ@lemmy.ca community. It could be better to merge these two exisiting communities than to start another one.

See you over there, please subscribe if you haven't: !civ@lemmy.ca

[–] infeeeee@lemmy.zip 5 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

I found a better article about this story: https://thedesk.net/2025/06/kayla-mae-wikipedia-lawsuit-sinkule/

The woman, Kayla Mae — who also goes by the name Kayla Morgan — employed the same attorney and law firm in a discrimination case brought against a Texas-based company called Security Brands, where she alleged ongoing workplace abuse and harassment because of her sexual orientation.

In her first lawsuit, Mae said she worked as a senior software developer for Security Brands in 2020. From the moment she was hired, Mae says she was subjected to harassment because of her gender identity as a “lesbian female who presents as masculine.”

“She is sometimes perceived as transgender, although she is not,” the complaint read.

That is different from what Mae alleges in the case against Wikimedia Foundation, where her complaint identifies her as a “transgender female” who was subject to “gender stereotyping.”

It sounds like she is playing the system deliberately. 2 times getting fired from 2 different companies for similar reason? Sounds fishy.

Mae says the Wikimedia Foundation ultimately sustained certain complaints made against Mbuguru. But, despite those policy violations, she was still required to work on his team, which led to additional harassment and discrimination that was the basis for further complaints.

Months into her employment, Mae was reportedly asked to speak with two Wikimedia Foundation human resource directors, Tatiana Tompkins and DeJa Hamilton, and a senior software engineering manager named Sai Suman Cherukwada. After speaking with Mae about her complaints, Cherukwada fired her over Zoom, the lawsuit alleges.

She was fired during she made the complaint? With the pot stirring comment and this background I'm mostly convinced she is a the problem here, she is looking for drama everywhere. These kind of individuals don't help the trans right movement, and lgbtqnation.com should do a better background check on people they report about.

 

Hi!

I'm the moderator of !civ@lemm.ee. As lemm.ee will shut down we are looking for a new home. I found that lemmy.ca has a similar community, it's moderator was inactive for 2 years: !civ@lemmy.ca

It may be better to revive this community than create a new one. Would you make me the mod of that community? Thanks!

[–] infeeeee@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago

What I tried to say, it might be just some curiosity at the beginning, from someone who heard anti-gay propaganda his whole life, not necessarily malice. Wikipedia should have handled the situation better.

After repeatedly being denied transfer to another team, Mae was asked to meet with managers so that Wikimedia could “learn more about your recent experiences.”

E.g. it's not clear why they didn't let her transfer to another group. After this it should have become clear that they can't work together, why it was better to fire her than to move her to a different group.

Mae was warned that one of her managers was “a ‘fixer’ who goes after employees that were seen as stirring the pot.”

So others noticed the she may be a problem as she seemed like stirring the pot.

The article is one sided, it would help if wikipedia would clarify what was going on, what they saw. Maybe we can learn more about this from the lawsuit, if it will be public.

[–] infeeeee@lemmy.zip 18 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Her direct supervisor was based in Kenya. [...] Among other things, her supervisor asked her inappropriate questions about her sexual identity and inquired about her medical history. In emails to HR, Mae characterized other behavior by the supervisor as “transphobic microaggressions” and “ableism”.

This sounds like it's a clash of cultures in part. I guess in Kenya you can rarely meet openly gay or trans folks as it's punishable with prison there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBTQ_rights_in_Kenya

[–] infeeeee@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 day ago
[–] infeeeee@lemmy.zip 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I moved to lemmy.zip for this reason, nothing is defederated except the CSAM stuff. On lemmy.zip by default hexbear and lemmygrad blocked on the user level, you can unblock them in the settings

You can see it here:

[–] infeeeee@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 days ago

Welcome aboard!

[–] infeeeee@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

!idm@lemm.ee moved to !idm@lemmy.zip

 

Unfortunately lemm.ee will shut down soon, so this will be our new home.

To see federated posts of the old community follow this link: !idm@lemm.ee