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A transgender girl accused of assaulting two students at a Texas high school alleges that she was being bullied and was merely fighting back

Shocking video shows a student identified by police as Travez Perry violently punching, kicking and stomping on a girl in the hallway of Tomball High School.

The female student was transported to the hospital along with a male student, whom Perry allegedly kicked in the face and knocked unconscious.

According to the police report, Perry - who goes by 'Millie' - told officers that the victim has been bullying her and had posted a photo of her on social media with a negative comment.

One Tomball High School parent whose daughter knows Perry said that the 18-year-old had been the target of a death threat.

'From what my daughter has said that the girl that was the bully had posted a picture of Millie saying people like this should die,' the mother, who asked not to be identified by name, told DailyMail.com.

When Perry appeared in court on assault charges, her attorney told a judge that the teen has been undergoing a difficult transition from male to female and that: 'There's more to this story than meets the eye.'

Perry is currently out on bond, according to authorities.

The video of the altercation sparked a widespread debate on social media as some claim Perry was justified in standing up to her alleged bullies and others condemn her use of violence.

The mother who spoke with DailyMail.com has been one of Millie's most ardent defenders on Facebook.

'I do not condone violence at all. But situations like this show that people now a days, not just kids, think they can post what they want. Or say what they want without thinking of who they are hurting,' she said.

'Nobody knows what Millie has gone through, and this could have just been a final straw for her. That is all speculation of course because I don't personally know her or her family, but as a parent and someone who is part of the LGBTQ community this girl needs help and support, not grown men online talking about her private parts and shaming and mocking her.'

One Facebook commenter summed up the views of many, writing: 'This was brutal, and severe! I was bullied for years and never attacked anyone!'

Multiple commenters rejected the gender transition defense and classified the attack as a male senselessly beating a female.

One woman wrote on Facebook: 'This person will get off because they're transitioning. This is an animal. She kicked, and stomped, and beat...not okay. Bullying is not acceptable, but kicking someone in the head. Punishment doesn't fit the crime.'

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[GenderCop]

College Fix article about Benjamin Boyce's demonetizing. they're reporting it since he was the major Evergreen State college connection:

He updated followers on Wednesday by noting that “about 40 vids from the last 6 months were suddenly switched from full to limited monetization at the same time yesterday. My channel has been ‘escalated’ to @YouTube’s ‘Internal team’ for review. We’ll see what’s what in a couple days. Thanks everyone for the support!!!”

Late Wednesday, Boyce told The College Fix that YouTube is “now manually going through my appeals and deciding which are suitable and which are not. So far, it’s about 50/50.”

Boyce said he does not know if it was his Evergreen videos that prompted some sort of complaint to spark the sudden mass demonetization or something else.

Another controversial topic he has covered includes transgender detransitions and similar issues surrounding sexuality and gender.

Boyce, a self-described “centrist,” also takes on topics such as cultural Marxism and censorship, interviews guests on a variety of subjects, and offers viewers his own brand of irreverent comedy. His channel has 27,000 subscribers.

Boyce has also been one of the leading and consistent critics of Evergreen State College, the Olympia, Washington-based public institution that was thrust into the national spotlight in the spring of 2017 for hosting a no-whites “Day of Absence” on campus.

Following that controversial observance, a rowdy gang of progressive students confronted a white biology professor who had refused to participate, a rumpus that was filmed, went viral, and helped propel the college into a downward spiral of decreasing enrollment and revenue.

With that, the controversy and mismanagement at Evergreen State College has continued, and covering it all on his YouTube channel is Boyce, a 2017 graduate of the school. Since June 2017, he has posted nearly 100 “#ExposéEvergreen” videos that have amassed more than 2,750,000 views so far.

Asked to weigh in on what happened to Boyce’s page, a spokesperson for YouTube told The College Fix via email on Wednesday that “we have clear policies that govern what videos may show ads, and videos that feature sensitive topics or events are not suitable for advertising. If we find a video that violates our policies, we remove ads. We always encourage creators to appeal if they feel that ads were wrongly removed from a video.”

 

[AnOminous]

we have clear policies

Lying motherfuckers.

 

[Elwood P. Dowd]

Connecticut high school transgender athletes ‘no longer want to remain silent’ following Title IX complaint - Might be paywalled.

Connecticut high school transgender athletes ‘no longer want to remai…

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Connecticut high school transgender athletes ‘no longer want to remain silent’ following Title IX complaint

Two transgender high school track and field athletes responded Wednesday to a Title IX complaint alleging that the runners prevented other female runners from top finishes and potentially from college scholarships.
The complaint filed earlier this week on behalf of three female track and field athletes in Connecticut argues that the two transgender runners, both of whom were assigned male at birth but identify as female, have “competitive advantages.” The complaint seeks to overturn the policy of the state’s high school athletics governing board, the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference, which allows athletes to compete based on the gender they identify with.
As Connecticut’s high school athletics transgender policy comes under scrutiny, here’s what you need to know »
“I have faced discrimination in every aspect of my life and I no longer want to remain silent,” said Bloomfield High track and field standout Terry Miller, one of the two transgender athletes cited in the complaint. “I am a girl and I am a runner. I participate in athletics just like my peers to excel, find community and meaning in my life. It is both unfair and painful that my victories have to be attacked and my hard work ignored.”

Terry Miller of Bloomfield wins the 200 meter dash with a time of 24.47 in the CIAC State Championship Track and Field Meet today in New Britain during the 2019 outdoor track and field season. (Mark Mirko / Hartford Courant)
Miller, along with Andraya Yearwood, who attends Cromwell High, have been working with the American Civil Liberties Union as the complaint begins to unfold. Miller won the State Open 200-meter title for the second straight year in 2019 and won the Class S titles in the 100 and 200, as well as the New England 200-meter championship. Yearwood, who is also transgender, finished third in the 100 meters in Class S and fourth in the 100 in the State Open.
Connecticut high school athletes file complaint over transgender policy »
“I have known two things for most of my life: I am a girl and I love to run,” Yearwood said in a statement. “There is no shortage of discrimination that I face as a young black woman who is transgender. I have to wake up every day in a world where people who look like me face so many scary and unfair things.
“I am lucky to live in a state that protects my rights and to have a family that supports me. This is what keeps me going. Every day I train hard — I work hard to succeed on the track, to support my teammates, and to make my community proud.”

With her father, Rahsaan Yearwood, photographing from the sideline Cromwell High School's Andraya Yearwood wins the 200 meter dash in 2017. (Mark Mirko / Hartford Courant)
The complaint was filed with the U.S. Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights on behalf of Glastonbury High track and field runner Selina Soule and two other athletes who have not been identified.
The essence of the complaint, is that the transgender girls are displacing girls who are cisgender (someone who identifies with their birth sex) as the runners advance through the postseason, denying the cisgender girls spots in the State Open or the New England championships, and thus chances to showcase their talent in front of college coaches or compete against higher level competition.
“I think it’s unfair to the girls who work really hard to do well and qualify for Opens and New Englands,” Soule told The Courant in 2018. “These girls, they’re just coming in and beating everyone. I have no problem with them wanting to be a girl.”

Selina Soule of Glastonbury shows her disappointment after placing 6th in the 100 meter finals during the 2018 State Open high school boys and girls track and field championships at Veterans Stadium in New Britain. Terry Miller of Bulkeley won both the girls 100 and 200 meter races setting new state records in both. (John Woike / Hartford Courant)
Soule appeared on Fox News’ “Tucker Carlson Tonight” this week, adding that she has received "nothing but support from my teammates and from other athletes.”
Soule’s mother, Bianca Stanescu, circulated a petition at track meets last year calling on the state legislature to require athletes to compete in sports based on their gender at birth, unless the athlete has undergone hormone therapy. The legislature did not act on the petition.
“We never got anywhere with the CIAC,” Stanescu said this week. “The genders are segregated for a reason. They might as well just say women don’t exist as a category."
Coaches, Parents Question Policy For High School Transgender Athletes »
CIAC executive director Glenn Lungarini defended the CIAC’s gender policy, noting that the organization reviewed the language with the Office of Civil Rights in Boston to ensure Title IX compliance and discussed the policy with Connecticut’s Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities.
“The CIAC is committed to equity in providing opportunities to student athletes in Connecticut,” Lungarini said in a written statement. “We take such matters seriously, and we believe that the current CIAC policy is appropriate under both Connecticut law and Title IX.”
The CIAC policy differs from rules set up by USA Track and Field, which requires transgender athletes to undergo hormone therapy. The USA Track and Field rules, which mirror the International Olympic Committee regulations, are used at colleges in the U.S.
All states in New England, New York, Pennsylvania, and several others have similar polices as Connecticut on the high school level that allow athletes to compete based on gender identity or have a process by which the athlete can request to compete against the gender they identify with.
There are 12 states that are identified as having “harmful, exclusive or invasive” policies according to GLSEN, an LGBTQ advocacy group that focuses on equal rights in schools. Those states have policies that outright deny transgender athletes from competing against the gender they identify with, don’t provide equal opportunity or do not protect trans athletes under HIPPA or FERPA. The remaining 13 states have no specific policy.
Both Miller and Yearwood emphasized their pride in living in a state with protective laws.
“Living in a state that protects my rights is something that I do not take for granted,” Miller said. "So many young trans people face exclusion at school and in athletics and it contributes to the horrible pain and discrimination that my community faces. The more we are told that we don’t belong and should be ashamed of who we are, the fewer opportunities we have to participate in sports at all. And being an athlete can help us survive.
“But instead we are being told to be quiet, to go home, to stop being who we are. I will continue to fight for all trans people to compete and participate consistent with who we are. There is a long history of excluding Black girls from sport and policing our bodies. I am a runner and I will keep running and keep fighting for my existence, my community and my rights.”
Yearwood added: “I hope that the next generation of trans youth doesn’t have to fight the fights that I have. I hope they can be celebrated when they succeed not demonized. For the next generation, I run for you!”
The national American Civil Liberties Union staff attorney also issued a statement Wednesday, calling it “heartbreaking.”
Attacking two black young women who are simply participating in the sport they love just because they are transgender is wrong, it is dangerous, and it is distorts Title IX, which is a law that protects all students on the basis of sex," ACLU attorney Chase Strangio said. "Efforts to undermine Title IX by claiming it doesn’t apply to a subset of girls will ultimately hurt all students.”

I think my favorite part is the claim they're being discriminated against is that they 're black and not because they have penises. I'm also not sure when these two had ever kept silent. Doubtless I wasn't paying close enough attention.

 

[AnOminous]

Connecticut high school transgender athletes ‘no longer want to remain silent’ following Title IX complaint - Might be paywalled.

Lmao at the very concept of troons not constantly bitching and complaining about everything. Now they're bitching that when they steal scholarships and victories from real female athletes, the people they stole from don't like it. Fuck these troon cheats.

 

[GrungyLawnChlorinate]

Another lesbian couple forced little boy to trans then killed him for rejecting it?

Mother Beats Son To Death For Refusing To Dress Like Girl

Karol Ramon, a seven-year-old boy, was beaten to death by his mother and lesbian partner for refusing to dress like a girl. According to reports, the child was subject to lengthy abuse and mistreatment in Guanajito, Mexico. Last March, the boy's life was ended when he was heavily...

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Karol Ramon, a seven-year-old boy, was beaten to death by his mother and lesbian partner for refusing to dress like a girl.

According to reports, the child was subject to lengthy abuse and mistreatment in Guanajito, Mexico.

Last March, the boy’s life was ended when he was heavily beaten by his mother and her partner for refusing to wear a girl’s dress.

The boy was admitted to hospital after blows to the head and stomach, where he sustained severe organ damage. Medical staff were unable to resuscitate the boy’s lifeless body when he arrived.

During the autopsy, the authorities discovered evidence of cigarette burns and injuries caused by blunt objects.

Neighbors stated that the mother, known as ‘Margarita’, and her partner subjected the boy to horrendous physical punishment with whips, hammers, chairs, and starvation.

The lesbian partner, known as ‘Esmeralda’, is still on the run after the mother was placed in preventive custody.

This shocking revelation comes after a similar story emerged from Brazil a few weeks ago, where a mother and her lesbian partner subjected their nine-year-old son to horrific psychological and physical torture for years. The mother had the boy’s genitals ripped off in a botched amateur gender reassignment surgery, tormented the boy for his sex, and finally stabbed him to death, decapitating him, and attempting to burn the remains.

 

[Maggots on a Train v2]

Like Bernie Sanders said, the one percent of the one percent should absolutely control the 99.99%.



Many transmans tend to just look butch or like a 14 year old skater dude, especially with the low/no effort trannies these days, it is a mystery why lesbians would prefer that. As a straight man I would absolutely go for the woman in a suit over the man in a dress.

I guess I can't be called transphobic after all. Time to get new business cards.

Isn't it strange how the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, until the few are a mob of deranged men in skirts?

 

[OttoWest]

I think my favorite part is the claim they're being discriminated against is that they 're black and not because they have penises. I'm also not sure when these two had ever kept silent. Doubtless I wasn't paying close enough attention.

Half the girls they’re running against are also black. These two assholes are so disingenuous

 

[Okami Green]

Another lesbian couple forced little boy to trans then killed him for rejecting it?

Mother Beats Son To Death For Refusing To Dress Like Girl

Karol Ramon, a seven-year-old boy, was beaten to death by his mother and lesbian partner for refusing to dress like a girl. According to reports, the child was subject to lengthy abuse and mistreatment in Guanajito, Mexico. Last March, the boy's life was ended when he was heavily...

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I read into that yesterday. There were two very similar stories that came out of MX within a week of each other. Both lesbian couples, both rejecting their sons for refusing to pretend to be girls, both horribly abused and shamed their children before savagely killing them. My only hope is that all four of these monsters are brought to justice so their sons may rest peacefully.

 

[BroFistula]

DPD makes arrest in murder of transgender woman found in White Rock Lake

Dallas police have made an arrest in the murder of a transgender woman who was found in White Rock Lake earlier this month.

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Spoiler: article

DALLAS - Dallas police have made an arrest in the murder of a transgender woman who was found in White Rock Lake earlier this month.

Late Thursday night, Dallas police announced 22-year-old Ruben Alvarado was arrested for the murder of Chynal Lindsey, a transgender woman whose body was found floating in White Rock Lake on June 1.

Police say Alvarado was arrested and taken to DPD Headquarters on Thursday for questioning, where he refused to further cooperate.

DPD had previously named Kendrell Lyles as a person of interest in Lindsey's murder. He was arrested on June 5 for the alleged murder of Muhlaysia Booker, another Dallas transgender woman.
Alvarado is being held in the Dallas County jail and charged with capital murder. His mugshot has not yet been released.

No word yet on a motive for this case...

 

[Sinner's Sandwich]

I read into that yesterday. There were two very similar stories that came out of MX within a week of each other. Both lesbian couples, both rejecting their sons for refusing to pretend to be girls, both horribly abused and shamed their children before savagely killing them. My only hope is that all four of these monsters are brought to justice so their sons may rest peacefully.

2 lesbians trooned their son in 2011

The little boy who started a sex change aged eight because he (and his lesbian parents) knew he always wanted to be a girl

Thomas Lobel, who now calls himself Tammy, is undergoing controversial hormone blocking treatment in Berkeley, California to stop him going through puberty as a boy.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[AlexJonesGotMePregnant]

DPD makes arrest in murder of transgender woman found in White Rock Lake

Dallas police have made an arrest in the murder of a transgender woman who was found in White Rock Lake earlier this month.

www.fox4news.com

Spoiler: article

DALLAS - Dallas police have made an arrest in the murder of a transgender woman who was found in White Rock Lake earlier this month.

Late Thursday night, Dallas police announced 22-year-old Ruben Alvarado was arrested for the murder of Chynal Lindsey, a transgender woman whose body was found floating in White Rock Lake on June 1.

Police say Alvarado was arrested and taken to DPD Headquarters on Thursday for questioning, where he refused to further cooperate.

DPD had previously named Kendrell Lyles as a person of interest in Lindsey's murder. He was arrested on June 5 for the alleged murder of Muhlaysia Booker, another Dallas transgender woman.
Alvarado is being held in the Dallas County jail and charged with capital murder. His mugshot has not yet been released.

No word yet on a motive for this case...

>Chynal Lindsey
>Muhlaysia Booker

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[Okami Green]

2 lesbians trooned their son in 2011

The little boy who started a sex change aged eight because he (and his lesbian parents) knew he always wanted to be a girl

Thomas Lobel, who now calls himself Tammy, is undergoing controversial hormone blocking treatment in Berkeley, California to stop him going through puberty as a boy.

www.dailymail.co.uk

That's a different one. There are more cases like this, and that is sad.

 

[Elwood P. Dowd]

2500 words about being a troon at Goldman Sachs. NY Times has its priorities straight.

link, but NYT has a paywall.

Being Transgender at Goldman Sachs - The New York Times

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Being Transgender at Goldman Sachs
How Maeve DuVally, an employee in the bank’s buttoned-up communications department, became herself at work.


By Emily Flitter

• June 21, 2019
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Goldman Sachs’s trading floors are vast rooms crammed with rows of tightly packed workstations, four monitors for every trader. The two-by-two grids tower over and swallow up their users, so that the only way someone can be identified from across the room is by the decorations affixed to the tops of the screens.
At one desk, a toy vulture peers down, held in place by wire feet. A stuffed eagle in a sports jersey sits atop another monitor. Flags: Brazil, Canada, Norway. A lacrosse stick juts out like a severed head on a pike.
One Wednesday in May, Maeve DuVally walked the rows in a pair of low-heeled black leather pumps, her ankles wobbling slightly. Her pink lipstick popped against her blonde hair, dark jacket and the pearls at her neck. Her eyelashes were full and inky.
Ms. DuVally, a spokeswoman for the bank, passed the flags and the lacrosse stick. She passed the vulture and the eagle. She passed one desk where a little tented card floated at eye level, bearing the Goldman Sachs logo, a rainbow-colored rectangle and the word “Ally.”



She approached the doorway to a senior executive’s office and leaned in. Its occupant, a man in gray dress pants, looked up at her quizzically.
“Hello,” she said, and waited.
“Maeve DuVally,” she said, after a moment.
“Hello,” the man said, blinking.

Ms. DuVally, a managing director in the Goldman communications department, on her first day as Maeve.CreditGabriella Angotti-Jones for The New York Times

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Ms. DuVally, a managing director in the Goldman communications department, on her first day as Maeve.CreditGabriella Angotti-Jones for The New York Times
“Michael DuVally,” Ms. DuVally said. “I’ve changed genders.”
“I did not recognize you!” the man said.
Ms. DuVally explained that she had not yet gotten around to telling all of her colleagues of her decision to come out as transgender. She told a story: One person she had shared the news with was a fellow member of a Goldman working group; he had replied, “Great — now we have another woman on the committee.” Ms. DuVally and the man in the office laughed at that. Then she said goodbye, and that she was looking forward to seeing him again at a meeting later that day. The man said softly, “New experiences for all of us.”
Wall Street wakes up (a bit)
Wall Street has had a hard time kicking its reputation as a dismal place for people who aren’t straight white men. Gone — mostly — are the days when investment banks would pick up strip-club tabs and female employees were harassed as a matter of course. It may be harder now to find a trader nicknamed “Porno Ray” (he worked at Bear Stearns), and the Volcker Rule has taken the swagger out of the guys who used to walk away from a day’s work with enough cash to buy a new Lamborghini — or acted like it, anyway. Despite these advances, a fleece-vested bro culture remains, and there are still plenty of obstacles to success for minorities and women.

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The group photo of Goldman’s 2010 managing director class, for example, is a sea of men with a sprinkling of women at the front. Ms. DuVally was in that class; she keeps the photo, in which her face appears above a suit and tie, on her desk. When she arrived for work as Maeve on the Tuesday after Memorial Day, only the second employee to use official channels to manage her transition at Goldman, she was testing just how tolerant and accepting a big American bank could be.
Goldman presents itself as being ahead of the curve on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues. It has offered health and relocation benefits to same-sex couples since 2000. It expanded its employee medical plan to cover gender reassignment surgery and hormone therapy in 2007, years ahead of JPMorgan Chase and Citigroup. This year, Goldman’s former chief executive, Lloyd Blankfein, received the Ally Award from the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center, a 35-year-old institution that supports the L.G.B.T. community in New York City.
Employees can choose to display posters and cards in their work areas that identify them as allies dedicated to “encouraging the use of inclusive language” and “mentoring and being a resource for L.G.B.T. people.” A giant rainbow pride flag is affixed to a window high above the equities trading desk, beside the office of R. Martin Chavez, the co-head of Goldman’s securities division and the firm’s most senior openly gay executive.
Goldman still has problems. On June 5, William Littleton, a former vice president who is gay, sued the bank for discrimination. He said his direct supervisors had failed to act when other bank employees undermined him, including when one colleague explained that he had been kept off a conference call because he sounded “too gay.” One supervisor, he said, had belittled him with comments like, “You look so Miami today.”

A shelf decorated with trophies and books in Ms. DuVally’s office.CreditGabriella Angotti-Jones for The New York Times

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A shelf decorated with trophies and books in Ms. DuVally’s office.CreditGabriella Angotti-Jones for The New York Times
There is one other Goldman employee who has formally transitioned at work (that is, involved the human resources department, changed names, made an announcement and so on): Katie Krasky, an associate on Goldman’s regulatory policy team. She was hired in February 2017, told her bosses that June of her intention to transition, and debuted her new name and pronouns that October.
Ms. Krasky said in an interview that she had not known she was a pathbreaker. She assumed there must have been other employees like her. “While I wasn’t able to find or connect with anyone who identified as transgender during that process, I felt it was probably foolish to assume I was the first, just because of the math,” she said. “It didn’t seem like it was very likely.”
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A 2017 study published in the American Journal of Public Health estimated that 0.39 percent of adults in the United States are transgender. If that proportion were applied to Goldman’s ranks, there would be as many as 140 transgender employees among the bank’s 36,000.
Goldman’s head of human resources, Dane Holmes, said Ms. DuVally and Ms. Krasky weren’t the only two transgender employees at Goldman, they’re just the only ones who have formally transitioned while at work. “There’s a lot of fluidity around how you think about sexual identity,” Mr. Holmes said. “We’ve had people who came into the firm at some different stages of their transition.”
One employee, Mr. Holmes said, had a name that befitted both a man and a woman, so she simply transitioned without any official announcement. “There are certainly people who work here who are transgender who have chosen not to self-ID,” he said. He declined to say exactly how many.
‘I never, on a conscious level, thought that there was anything I could do’
In the Goldman Sachs communications department, Ms. DuVally and her colleagues are concerned to an extreme with the stories they tell, and with what they are and are not allowed to say. Recently, while visiting the bank, I made an idle comment about Goldman’s relaxed new dress code. Ms. DuVally replied, “You can’t put this in your story, but my assistant wears jeans every day now.” Another co-worker, who has worked with Ms. DuVally for years, told me he had never seen her happier. A few hours later, he emailed to say he could not be quoted saying that.

Ms. DuVally’s old suit closet at Goldman Sachs.CreditGabriella Angotti-Jones for The New York Times

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Ms. DuVally’s old suit closet at Goldman Sachs.CreditGabriella Angotti-Jones for The New York Times
Ms. DuVally, who has worked at Goldman for 15 years, is 58 and twice divorced, with three children. In an interview, she said that she had been unhappy for most of her life. “I drank too much in the past, and I was extremely self-critical,” she said. “In retrospect, I can say now I didn’t like the fact that I was a male.”
Before she started dressing in women’s clothing, she said, she could not remember looking at herself in the mirror and feeling anything other than disgust. “I believe from a very early age I’ve wanted to be a woman,” she said. Somehow, she added, the sense was both vague and strong. “I did not like anything that was masculine about me. But I never, on a conscious level, thought that there was anything I could do about that.”
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Last year, Ms. DuVally said, she discovered that she liked wearing women’s clothing. She did so on weeknights, at her apartment on the Upper East Side. She found a support group for transgender people and made new friends.
At first, the thought of expressing herself in this way at Goldman did not cross her mind. But then, beginning late last year, she occasionally wore light makeup to work. Sometimes she would appear before her colleagues wearing bright red or pink lipstick. A few nights before Thanksgiving, she wore makeup along with a tuxedo to a black-tie event, where she mingled with other bank employees and journalists.
Ms. DuVally saw herself as living two lives throughout the fall and winter. One, where her new friends knew her as Maeve, was exciting and filled with a happiness she had never before experienced. The second, her life at work, where she had to keep being Michael, was grinding away at her.
In December, on the mornings she went to work from yoga class, she began showing up in flowy yoga pants and boots with heels. She would ride the two elevators it took to get to her office on the 29th floor and then change into a suit. The form of Michael felt stifling. Sometimes she couldn’t even last the whole day downtown in the unnatural feeling of her men’s clothing. She’d get dressed in women’s clothes and makeup while still at work, in preparation to leave at the end of the day.

“I believe from a very early age I’ve wanted to be a woman,” Ms. DuVally said.CreditGabriella Angotti-Jones for The New York Times

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“I believe from a very early age I’ve wanted to be a woman,” Ms. DuVally said.CreditGabriella Angotti-Jones for The New York Times
Then, in March, an invitation went out to the bank’s employees: Goldman’s L.G.B.T. network was hosting a panel on “how to be stronger allies to the transgender and gender non-conforming community.” Ms. DuVally showed up to the event, in Goldman’s auditorium, in a wig and makeup, and afterward she introduced herself to some bank employees.
Ms. DuVally found the event encouraging. One co-worker, who watched it remotely from London, took copious notes and emailed them to the communications group afterward. Everyone who attended received laminated cards explaining correct pronoun usage. Ms. DuVally realized, she said, that it was time to come out as transgender at Goldman.
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The bank is a place of rigid protocols, and she knew her debut as Maeve would require weeks of preparation. After Ms. DuVally informed her bosses of her decision, a human resources specialist was assigned to handle her case. Ms. DuVally got new business cards, a new ID badge, a new email address. She got a new profile in Goldman’s internal directory, so that when she joined work discussions digitally, the meeting software would display to all participants her smiling, feminine face.
A co-worker of Ms. DuVally’s in London used her access to the bank’s employee website to change Ms. DuVally’s name in past internal articles from Michael to Maeve. The bank’s security team let her into their offices to have her new-look photograph taken at a time when no one she knew and hadn’t told about her transition would chance upon her.
Ms. DuVally and her colleagues in the communications department knew her decision would be of interest to journalists, and they discussed how to keep it a secret until the last minute. In mid-May, Ms. DuVally attended a happy hour Goldman hosted for reporters at a bar overlooking New York Harbor. She was still calling herself Michael, still dressed as a man. Tucked into her jacket, out of sight for most of the evening, was a large, bubblegum-pink wallet. I noticed it when she took it out at the bar, and Ms. DuVally hurried me away from the group. Only out of earshot, and after stipulating that it was a secret, did she explain why.
In the corporate sphere, Ms. DuVally imagined that her transition would be a binary thing — that a switch would be flipped. But word was getting out. People outside her immediate circle learned of her transition plan. On May 22, when I interviewed Asahi Pompey, Goldman’s global head of corporate engagement, she gushed about the name “Maeve.” Later that day, when I told Ms. DuVally, she was surprised Ms. Pompey was aware of it.

Ms. DuVally’s new ID.CreditGabriella Angotti-Jones for The New York Times

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Ms. DuVally’s new ID.CreditGabriella Angotti-Jones for The New York Times
‘Welcome, Maeve’
On May 28, Ms. DuVally arrived at Goldman shortly after 7 a.m. in an outfit assembled from items she’d bought at Theory: A white shirt with thin, black, vertical stripes that fanned out at the waist, slim black slacks and a black jacket. On the 29th floor, a colleague greeted her: “What did you get up to this weekend?”
“Oh, manicure, pedicure, eyelash extensions,” Ms. DuVally said. “You know.”
“Honestly, I should have done all that stuff, too,” the woman said.
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Everyone seemed to be focusing more on clothes, nails, hair and the other aspects of the traditional female corporate uniform than they might have on a less consequential day. It didn’t read as shallow; it was just the easiest way to connect with Ms. DuVally, to convey warmth and support.
Andrew Williams, a Goldman spokesman, stuck his head into Ms. DuVally’s office soon after she arrived. “Welcome, Maeve,” he said, smiling. Ms. Krasky sent an email: “I’m so glad to know the big day is finally here.” Another woman hugged Ms. DuVally in the hallway, saying, “Oh, wow, you look gorgeous.”
“I’ve been hugging a lot of people,” Ms. DuVally said. “Before I decided to come out, I don’t think I had ever hugged anyone at work.”
That first day, Ms. DuVally discovered a secret the rest of the women on the 29th floor already knew: The women’s bathroom had a cushioned leather bench. She used the space for the first time, bringing her purse with her to check her makeup.
There were hiccups. The badges Goldman’s security apparatus printed out for her visitors still referred to her as Michael, and at one point, Mr. Williams accidentally used the wrong pronoun. Ms. DuVally said she had prepared herself for little slips like those. She knew some younger transgender people who got angry every time someone misgendered them, she said, but she had decided not to let it bother her too much.
She received gifts, including a makeup bag. The commodities trading team sent flowers, a tightly packed cluster of white orchids. “During this important point in your life, we wanted to let you know how happy we are for you,” a card read. “We are full of genuine admiration and respect for your bravery and choice to be happy.”
On the evening of June 6, Ms. DuVally, in dress slacks and a soft blue blouse, was one of a dozen Goldman Sachs volunteers at the Children’s Museum of Manhattan’s Pride Night. They looked on as 30 or so kids raced around the museum after hours, splashing in its water exhibit and painting a giant pride flag on a canvas spread across the floor.
Like many of the other volunteers, Ms. DuVally did not know exactly what to do. She eventually sat down at a child-sized table arrayed with paper and art supplies. A girl of perhaps 6 sat down across from her, and they both began to draw. The girl wrote her name, “Amelia,” in light blue. Ms. DuVally chose a different color — blue, red, pink, green and crimson — for each of the letters in MAEVE.

 

[SourDiesel]

“Great — now we have another woman on the committee.”

Honestly every single tranny story these days is just TERF hyperbole made flesh isn't it? Hahaha guys, yep I guess you sure do have "women" now. No need to hire any more!

 

[Cryin RN]

That's a lesbian haircut if there ever was one. TERF to the core. When will their reign of terror end?

Edit: That NYT article is unintentionally hilarious, for example:

Everyone seemed to be focusing more on clothes, nails, hair and the other aspects of the traditional female corporate uniform than they might have on a less consequential day. It didn’t read as shallow; it was just the easiest way to connect with Ms. DuVally, to convey warmth and support.

The finance fembots are treating him the way he deserves, i.e. as a retarded child who needs to be constantly coddled and redirected away from grown-up conversations via make-up and shoes. It's great that the author noticed that women change their behavior around trannies, because that's exactly the point that radfems make about refusing them access to DV shelters.

 

[AnOminous]

2500 words about being a troon at Goldman Sachs. NY Times has its priorities straight.

I think everyone at Goldman Sachs should be treated exactly the same whether or not they're troons.

Zyklon B is a great equalizer that way.

 

[Malagor the dank omen]

Zyklon B is a great equalizer that way.

Nah, it's better to use the good old method that has proven over the years to be always effective: Fire.
It purifies, it's easy to use and gets the attention of everyone. For all your needs and purposes, always rely on fire

 

[Otterly]

“...yes We have lots of women on the board. There’s Maeve... no she’s paid the same as the other men, were Inclusive!”

Same story every time. Middle aged, wife and kids left by the wayside, career ladder climbed, and then Troon out. Insist you’ve always felt like this but (whatever excuse) couldn’t do it before. Classical AGP. Now goldman sacks get to pat themselves on the back for being inclusive while making actually female employees LESS comfortable by having to share toilets with someone who is AGP. Also no need to hire an actual woman who might get pregnant or something. Diversity bingo card full. Way to fucking go, Goldman sacks!

 

[Silence of the Troons]

TL;DR Transbian admits to having a bunch of kinks which all involve men (trans identifying or not) sexually assaulting or enslaving "cis lesbians" and says it makes him "feel like the TERFs are right", the adviser says "it's totally normal and valid bro, don't let the TURFs discourage you from embracing it" https://medium.com/@thingofthingsadvice/advice-1-kink-942c5ef5707c

Hi,

I wish I could be more open (in appropriate spaces) about a particular kink I enjoy but I am deeply… well, not ashamed, but I just kind of feel like I’m not allowed to talk about it, ever.

I’m a trans lesbian and my kink is non-con and master/slave power dynamics; specifically, I have fantasies about cis women being sexually assaulted by (or being the slaves of) men, cis women being assaulted by (or being the slaves of) trans women, and me personally assaulting (or having as slaves) cis women.

I am poly and really looking forward to hopefully meeting someone who wants to roleplay this kind of fantasy with me. But in order for that to happen I need to be able to communicate my preferences, and I can’t do that without first overcoming the idea that I’m just not allowed to talk about this aspect of me, ever.

Why do I feel this way? Part of it is that I spent several years in online lefty communities where certain kinks (especially sexist power dynamic stuff) were just assumed to be evil. This led to a lot of doublethink on my part, where I’d be masturbating to and getting off on my non-con fantasies without hurting anyone and kind of knowing that it wasn’t a huge deal, while somehow also believing that I was doing something really immoral. I don’t spend time in communities anymore, but as a result of spending time in them I now have strong impulses toward self-censorship around certain topics. (I can’t say X because if I did then all my friends would leave me and maybe I’d get doxxed.)

Partly, also, I feel like I’m proof that the TERFs are right. I feel like I’m basically just a creepy man in a dress getting off on invading lesbian spaces. I don’t actuallybelieve this, but I have to remind myself that I don’t actually believe it, and I haven’t really convinced myself deep-down yet.

Relatedly, there are probably some people who are on the fence about whether transgenderism is good, and if they knew about me and my kinks they’d end up on the wrong side of the fence. I don’t think this is a good reason to be so reserved about my desires, but it seems like a better reason than “What if the TERFs are right?” and as a result it’s probably a more significant roadblock.

Any advice that you have that could help me be more comfortable talking about my kinky desires with potential sexual partners would be greatly appreciated.

Sincerely,

a person who is so terrified of having my kinks discovered that I created a gibberish email address

Dear Gibberish:

Congratulations! You are perfectly normal.

All human sexuality is weird and embarrassing and vulnerable and politically incorrect. It’s not something we kinky people have a monopoly on. I guarantee you if you could read the minds of people having the sweetest and most loving vanilla sex, it would turn out their sexual interests are related to their insecurities and their body image issues and their yearning for intimacy and all kinds of other stuff you’d be uncomfortable telling the Starbucks barista about. Sexualities are sort of like dreams: they take all the strange awkward uncomfortable bits of you that aren’t fit for public consumption, mix them together with that TV show you watched and your favorite shoes and your third-grade teacher, and produce some unrecognizable and nonsensical yet mortifyingly revealing slop.

That’s one of the reasons that talking about sex is hard. You’re like “here are all my weird uncomfortable bits, fellow human! Please don’t judge me.”

And it’s also one of the reasons that a lot of political ideologies don’t like sex. Sex is stubbornly politically inconvenient. You can get a woman to wear combat boots and no makeup, to split the chores fifty-fifty and practice Health at Every Size, to have a flawless political analysis and to organize at her local domestic violence shelter — and her sexuality will still go “you know what would be hot? If I got a boob job. Just. Giant fucking tits bouncing all over the place. That would be hot.”

And you can say all the standard sex-positive things — you know, your sexual fantasies only hurt imaginary people inside your own head, just because you fantasize about something doesn’t mean you want to do it in real life, politically regressive fantasies don’t mean that you have regressive politics—but honestly? I would go farther. I think the way human sexuality works is a good thing. It is part of the human experience to be awkward and embarrassing and immature and insecure and politically inconvenient! If your system is not designed for this, it is not a system for human beings. It is a system for some manner of politically unobjectionable robot.

Obviously, the TERFs are incorrect. There have been cis lesbians having kinky sex since the invention of cis lesbians, and most certainly since the founding of Samois in 1978. (Perhaps you’d be interested in reading Macho Sluts, by Pat Califia? Of course he did later turn out to be a gay man, but he identified as a lesbian when it was written.)

Further, I would suggest that if a person’s acceptance of trans people is based on none of them being doms, then they never accepted trans people in the first place. This is similar to my argument about people who identify as “astergender” on Tumblr: if you are like “I used to support trans people, and then I discovered that there exist teenagers who are silly,” then you probably didn’t support trans people at all, the same way that you wouldn’t support trans people if you were like “I used to support trans people and then I discovered trees have green leaves.” It was obviously true all along that trees have green leaves and if you put ten seconds of thought into the question you would realize this.

Similarly, teenagers are sometimes silly, fetishes are often strange, and dommes exist and some of them are trans. It is not worth our time to try to deny obvious facts in order to appeal to people who have failed to put thirty seconds of thought into the question.

I am going to suggest you read Nancy Friday’s My Secret Garden, a 1973 collection of sexual fantasies from hundreds of (cisgender!) women of diverse backgrounds. Since it was written before widespread use of pornography, we get to see female sexuality as it naturally is, in all its diversity and sheer bizarreness. I hope it helps you feel less ashamed.

I am also going to suggest talking about your kinks in ways that seem less scary and likely to lead to doxxing. You say you’re poly. Do your partners know about your kinks? If you’re in a healthy relationship, saying something like “I’d like to talk about what I’m into, but I’m scared and I’m going to need a lot of reassurance and support” will be welcomed. (Remember, your partners have embarrassing sexuality stuff too!) Email or chat might make it easier by making it more distant. You might also suggest exchanging samples of porn you like; for some people, it’s less scary than putting your kink into words.

Have you considered checking out your community’s local kink scene? Munches exist in every city, and most of them are trans-friendly. In general, kink communities take privacy very seriously: lots of people work with children or in other situations where their kink getting out would harm their careers. It might be easier to talk about other people’s kinks than your own, and it might also be easier in an environment where literally everyone is kinky. (It’s also a great opportunity to meet new partners!) Consider going to a munch for newbies; people there are going to be understanding of your embarrassment.

You might want to consider talking about your kinks online, using an account that can’t be connected to your real-life identity. If it were before the Tumblr porn ban, Tumblr would be obviously the best choice. As it is, Reddit, a Tumblr clone such as BDSMlr, Twitter, Fetlife and Archive of Our Own all have active kink/NSFW communities, depending on your particular interests. I suggest actively participating, rather than just reading porn and jerking off. It’s a great way to meet partners (even if sadly long-distance ones), and it’s often easier to be honest when you’re anonymous and behind the safety of a computer screen.

 

[keyboredsm4shthe2nd]

TL;DR Transbian admits to having a bunch of kinks which all involve men (trans identifying or not) sexually assaulting or enslaving "cis lesbians" and says it makes him "feel like the TERFs are right", the adviser says "it's totally normal and valid bro, don't let the TURFs discourage you from embracing it" https://medium.com/@thingofthingsadvice/advice-1-kink-942c5ef5707c

so a straight man who wants to be a rapist trooned out to save his fee fees

absolutely disgusting