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www.thepostmillennial.com
I went to "meredith"s twitter and the first fucking thing I saw was a tweet telling people to leave CWC alone, and condemning kiwi farms specifically. new lolcow?
A bestselling trans author’s tweet thread about abuse goes viral, then came the allegations of her own abuse - The Post Millennial
A viral tweet thread from critically acclaimed trans author Meredith Stroud about abuse may be a case of projection.
www.thepostmillennial.com
On Nov. 10, a celebrated trans author wrote a viral tweet thread that received over 100,000 likes. The thread complained about the discrepancy between successful, beautiful women, and their often abusive and unkempt male partners.
As it turns out, she may have been projecting.
The author, who writes under the pen name “Meredith Russo,” is formerly known as Meredith Stroud and Travis Lee Stroud. Her 2016 novel If I Was Your Girl received multiple awards and near-endless commendations from literary elites. On the back of the book’s success, Stroud, 32, was invited to publish an article in The New York Times on the struggles of being a transwoman. Stroud’s subsequent book, Birthday, received awards from Refinery29, Bustle and Nylon.
However, some Twitter users brought attention to a blog post from 2016 where the author’s arrest record and past relationship history were detailed, prompting the author to use block lists to squelch criticism.
“Domestic violence is insidious and slow, like the proverbial boiling frog,” Stroud’s ex-wife, Juniper Russo, said. “It’s hard to say when it all started.”
Juniper Russo alleges she was subjected to a campaign of sexual and emotional abuse at the hands of her former partner, abuse she says was so severe that the marriage culminated in a divorce in early 2015.
“We met on OKCupid in 2011 and got married in 2013,” Russo said, claiming the physical abuse started shortly after the wedding. “We had a lot of shared interests at the time, and I was naive enough to think that shared interests are the foundation of a healthy relationship.”
Russo shared disturbing details of some of the alleged abuses she suffered during her marriage to Meredith Stroud.
“When my son was born in 2014, I had severe pre-eclampsia and injuries from giving birth. I had to have major reconstructive surgery. I was extremely weak and in severe pain,” Russo said.
“Meredith was extremely abusive to me during this time, calling me a ‘feeding station, not a parent’ because breastfeeding my son was one of the only things I could do, and because I was asking [Meredith] to help with things like diapers,” Russo also alleges.
During this same time, Juniper says Stroud would tell her to commit suicide. “[Meredith] kept mocking me when I was in pain, and told me I was so useless as a parent I should just kill myself.”
Russo says she was first forced to call the police in late 2014, “[Meredith] was having an outburst. I got scared and called 911. [Meredith] took the phone from me, and was heard trying to prevent me from calling for help.”
As a result, Stroud was booked on charges of interfering with an emergency call.
Like many victims of domestic violence, Russo says she still loved and sympathized with her abuser.
“I ended up bailing [Meredith] out, and paying for the legal defense,” she said.
Russo said she often intervened to prevent Stroud from being charged with domestic abuse, noting that the police wanted to charge Stroud in Nov. 2014.
“I was always trying to protect [Meredith] because I knew men’s jail was not kind to transwomen,” Russo said. “She was always threatening suicide if she were to get arrested.” Russo continues, “Even when things were terrible, I was worried for her safety and didn’t want her to kill herself or be beaten to death in prison.”
Russo turned over 53 pages of legal documents to support her allegations.
The divorce record, which features a restraining order against Stroud, includes messages shared between the two in which Stroud admits to abusing Russo. These messages were accepted as evidence by the divorce courts.
In one series of messages from Facebook, Stroud is calmly attempting to diffuse Russo’s desire to proceed with the divorce, offering to go on medication and check into a psychiatric facility for psychosis maintenance.
In this same conversation, Russo expresses fear of Stroud eventually killing her.
In another, dramatically different text conversation, Stroud says she hopes Russo gets “run over by a f*cking truck” and demands Russo reduce child support payments.
At the time, Stroud was recorded by the court as having an income of $8,300 gross per month, having acquired a substantial six-figure advance from Flatiron Books, the publisher of Stroud’s debut novel, If I Was Your Girl. The court would later order Stroud to pay $1,068 per month.
But Russo says Stroud has not paid child support in years, and currently owes over $20,000 in back payments. In July of 2019, Russo attempted to start a GoFundMe to raise the money needed to legally compel Stroud to pay what was owed. Other than the child support arrangements, Russo did not request alimony or any other financial compensation from the seperation.
After the divorce, Russo says Stroud denigrated her in public, telling fans and followers on social media that Russo was “a TERF who had abused and left” Stroud due to her transition from male to female.
“Many trans people are the victims of violence and discrimination, so [Meredith’s] target audience found that totally relatable and credible. They had no reason to doubt her,” Russo said, noting that both she and her current wife are members of the LGBT community. Russo identifies as non-binary, while her current wife is a transwoman.
“I’ve been harassed quite a bit by Meredith’s social network. I lost a lot of friends and have been largely ostracized from our local LGBT community.” Russo says, “I’ll often be online and someone I don’t know will suddenly jump into a thread to announce I’m the TERF who ruined Meredith Russo’s life.”
Stroud continues to publicly call Russo an abuser, and claims she’s attempting to “destroy” [Stroud’s] career and finances.
The Post Millennial has reached out to Stroud as well as Flatiron-MacMillan Publishing and Stroud’s publishing agent Sarah Barley for comment. While the publishing house and agent did not respond by the time of publication, Stroud denied all allegations while calling The Post Millennial a slew of denigrating names.
When asked about her own admissions of abuse in the court document, Stroud again asserted “Either way, my response to the allegations is that I have not ever sexually or physically abused any of my sexual or romantic partners.”
Stroud claimed, at first, that she was “barred” from speaking about her relationship to her ex-wife by law. When questioned about why she had persistently made social media posts about that very subject, Stroud declined to answer before blocking the account used to contact her.
“Meredith thrives on lies and conflict, and she’s a writer, so she knows how to come up with a good story.” Russo says, “I knew when I left her that I’d become the subject of one of these stories.”
Included in the divorce and restraining order filings was an article Stroud wrote with the intention of submitting it to an LGBT magazine. The article, written as an introspective reflection on the couple’s relationship, states in detail the abuse Stroud subjected Russo to.
And despite Stroud’s public attempts to downplay the arrest, Stroud’s written account supports Russo’s claims that it was she who is responsible for jail bailout and the charges being dropped.
The document also backs Russo’s assertion that she continued to support and care for her spouse even after the repeated physical and sexual assaults, a far cry from Stroud’s claims on social media that Russo had been the abuser, and callously made Stroud homeless.
Due to Stroud’s continued public assertions that Russo is to blame, as well as the harassment from Stroud’s fans she’s received in the past as a result, Russo says she continues to fear retaliation.
Russo notes that some of the posts Stroud has made include threats of violence. From a now-deleted alternative Twitter account, Stroud posted how she wanted Russo’s friends to be “brutally killed” in the style of a violent horror movie.
“My main hope, in discussing all of this, is that the defamation against myself and my family will stop.” Russo comments, “I’ve worked so hard to rebuild my life in the five years since I left Meredith, and I’m emotionally exhausted by the fact that I’m still being defamed on a daily basis as a ‘TERF’ and abuser, and that it’s affected my family so profoundly.”
Despite everything, Juniper Russo says she does not wish ill upon her former spouse, and supports Stroud’s work in the literary world.
“I still have to believe that there’s some good inside of [Meredith] and that she’s leaving some kind of positive mark on the world. If her books have saved one single teenager from suicide, I’d consider that to outweigh the pain and trauma I’ve had to endure at her hands.” Russo continues on to note that deeply flawed people can sometimes make good art.
“It’s important to be aware that someone who creates inspiring work is not necessarily a good person, and I think it’s dangerous for anyone to look up to Meredith as a role model, or to take anything she says at face value.”
Russo concluded. “Her work, including how she presents herself and speaks of those around her, is fictional. I’d caution anyone against mistaking any of it for reality.”
At the time, Stroud was recorded by the court as having an income of $8,300 gross per month, having acquired a substantial six-figure advance from Flatiron Books, the publisher of Stroud’s debut novel, If I Was Your Girl. The court would later order Stroud to pay $1,068 per month.
But Russo says Stroud has not paid child support in years, and currently owes over $20,000 in back payments. In July of 2019, Russo attempted to start a GoFundMe to raise the money needed to legally compel Stroud to pay what was owed. Other than the child support arrangements, Russo did not request alimony or any other financial compensation from the seperation.
After the divorce, Russo says Stroud denigrated her in public, telling fans and followers on social media that Russo was “a TERF who had abused and left” Stroud due to her transition from male to female.
“Many trans people are the victims of violence and discrimination, so [Meredith’s] target audience found that totally relatable and credible. They had no reason to doubt her,” Russo said, noting that both she and her current wife are members of the LGBT community. Russo identifies as non-binary, while her current wife is a transwoman.
“I’ve been harassed quite a bit by Meredith’s social network. I lost a lot of friends and have been largely ostracized from our local LGBT community.” Russo says, “I’ll often be online and someone I don’t know will suddenly jump into a thread to announce I’m the TERF who ruined Meredith Russo’s life.”
Stroud continues to publicly call Russo an abuser, and claims she’s attempting to “destroy” [Stroud’s] career and finances.
The Post Millennial has reached out to Stroud as well as Flatiron-MacMillan Publishing and Stroud’s publishing agent Sarah Barley for comment. While the publishing house and agent did not respond by the time of publication, Stroud denied all allegations while calling The Post Millennial a slew of denigrating names.
When asked about her own admissions of abuse in the court document, Stroud again asserted “Either way, my response to the allegations is that I have not ever sexually or physically abused any of my sexual or romantic partners.”
Stroud claimed, at first, that she was “barred” from speaking about her relationship to her ex-wife by law. When questioned about why she had persistently made social media posts about that very subject, Stroud declined to answer before blocking the account used to contact her.
“Meredith thrives on lies and conflict, and she’s a writer, so she knows how to come up with a good story.” Russo says, “I knew when I left her that I’d become the subject of one of these stories.”
Included in the divorce and restraining order filings was an article Stroud wrote with the intention of submitting it to an LGBT magazine. The article, written as an introspective reflection on the couple’s relationship, states in detail the abuse Stroud subjected Russo to.
And despite Stroud’s public attempts to downplay the arrest, Stroud’s written account supports Russo’s claims that it was she who is responsible for jail bailout and the charges being dropped.
The document also backs Russo’s assertion that she continued to support and care for her spouse even after the repeated physical and sexual assaults, a far cry from Stroud’s claims on social media that Russo had been the abuser, and callously made Stroud homeless.
Due to Stroud’s continued public assertions that Russo is to blame, as well as the harassment from Stroud’s fans she’s received in the past as a result, Russo says she continues to fear retaliation.
Russo notes that some of the posts Stroud has made include threats of violence. From a now-deleted alternative Twitter account, Stroud posted how she wanted Russo’s friends to be “brutally killed” in the style of a violent horror movie.
“My main hope, in discussing all of this, is that the defamation against myself and my family will stop.” Russo comments, “I’ve worked so hard to rebuild my life in the five years since I left Meredith, and I’m emotionally exhausted by the fact that I’m still being defamed on a daily basis as a ‘TERF’ and abuser, and that it’s affected my family so profoundly.”
Despite everything, Juniper Russo says she does not wish ill upon her former spouse, and supports Stroud’s work in the literary world.
“I still have to believe that there’s some good inside of [Meredith] and that she’s leaving some kind of positive mark on the world. If her books have saved one single teenager from suicide, I’d consider that to outweigh the pain and trauma I’ve had to endure at her hands.” Russo continues on to note that deeply flawed people can sometimes make good art.
“It’s important to be aware that someone who creates inspiring work is not necessarily a good person, and I think it’s dangerous for anyone to look up to Meredith as a role model, or to take anything she says at face value.”
Russo concluded. “Her work, including how she presents herself and speaks of those around her, is fictional. I’d caution anyone against mistaking any of it for reality.”
I went to "meredith"s twitter and the first fucking thing I saw was a tweet telling people to leave CWC alone, and condemning kiwi farms specifically. new lolcow?
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So he criticized straight women for not being harsh enough on their husbands when they're lazy and whatnot, but they also shouldn't leave their husband if said husband is being a physically and psychologically abusive nut sack? LOL
Basically, he went from "atheist hobo/possibly an alcoholic wife-beater" to "greasy troon who thinks he's a teenage girl", or "from one flavor of shit to another flavor of shit".
Anyway, it's very telling that all it took for TRAs to wholeheartedly support him was for him to accuse his wife of being an abusive TERF who wouldn't affirm his stunning and brave transition.
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He also recently posted Before/After trooning out comparison pictures.didn't see this posted yet
A bestselling trans author’s tweet thread about abuse goes viral, then came the allegations of her own abuse - The Post Millennial
A viral tweet thread from critically acclaimed trans author Meredith Stroud about abuse may be a case of projection.
I went to "meredith"s twitter and the first fucking thing I saw was a tweet telling people to leave CWC alone, and condemning kiwi farms specifically. new lolcow?
Basically, he went from "atheist hobo/possibly an alcoholic wife-beater" to "greasy troon who thinks he's a teenage girl", or "from one flavor of shit to another flavor of shit".
Anyway, it's very telling that all it took for TRAs to wholeheartedly support him was for him to accuse his wife of being an abusive TERF who wouldn't affirm his stunning and brave transition.
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yesthatanna
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I was wondering if you guys had found Russo/Stroud yet (and cheers for shouting out my article).
Stroud actually transitioned in 2013, as far as Juniper told me, which was around the same time they got married. Juniper is also a member of the LGBT community (her current wife is a transwoman as well), so there was really no issue there and she absolutely has no animus towards the trans community. So the claims by Stroud that she is a TERF are just generally ridiculous and unbelievable.
Stroud actually transitioned in 2013, as far as Juniper told me, which was around the same time they got married. Juniper is also a member of the LGBT community (her current wife is a transwoman as well), so there was really no issue there and she absolutely has no animus towards the trans community. So the claims by Stroud that she is a TERF are just generally ridiculous and unbelievable.
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While I feel for her, she's obviously a woman drawn to broken people. Hopefully this trans woman is less broken than her ex. I don't think her ex was the only one who needed psychological counseling, to be honest.
I'm not being dismissive of the abuse she suffered. Even if she has bad taste in partners, she did not and does not deserve to be abused by anyone. Unfortunately, if she knows anything at all about the troon community, they are indeed some of the most abusive and vindictive people out there. Probably because they are misogynists in drag. I wish her the best of luck, but the troon community is going to circle the wagons on this one and no amount of facts or proofs is going to convince them. If you could change their minds with facts, they wouldn't claim that sex is on a spectrum or that they have lady brains or that it is possible to change your sex.
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didn't see this posted yet
A bestselling trans author’s tweet thread about abuse goes viral, then came the allegations of her own abuse - The Post Millennial
A viral tweet thread from critically acclaimed trans author Meredith Stroud about abuse may be a case of projection.
I went to "meredith"s twitter and the first fucking thing I saw was a tweet telling people to leave CWC alone, and condemning kiwi farms specifically. new lolcow?
Here’s an article from 2016 on the allegation including copies of the court docs and Stroud’s mugshot. Included in the police report are allegations of abuse against the one of kids too.
In case it’s difficult to read the first event: “Extreme verbal and psychological abuse of [the child] – grabbing, pushing, pinching, screaming, cursing”
He looks enormous next to her:
It’s noted at the end of the piece in an update that GenderTrender was one of the first on the story which once again proves that GT was on top of this shit from the word go. No wonder they wanted to shut her up.
yesthatanna
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There are things I did not cover in my article at the explicit request of Juniper.
That is all I will say.
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Just some more insanity from the ACLU. Sorry men, your spaces are going to be invaded by troons too.
Zeebie
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"Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth." Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Marries another troon so the left won't call her phobic, finds out too late that literally nothing will stop that once you make a sad sack man cry.
If there's ever been a better example of play stupid games win stupid prizes, I haven't seen it.
If there's ever been a better example of play stupid games win stupid prizes, I haven't seen it.
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I remember when I was still in school when it was PE time and we had to change in the lockers, more than half of us girls would change in the stalls anyways because we were embarrassed by our own bodies. Maybe it was because puberty had just hit you and you had your period and you didn't feel like flashing your pads or tampons to the other girls, or your tits were growing at a different rate from one another, or you were bloated and felt fat, or you hadn't shaved and had weird hair growing from places you didn't even know existed, or you just didn't feel like showing your still-growing and ever-changing body to other people. And these were girls you saw everyday and, critically, they were of your same sex. If you were less lucky, you'd get changed in the stalls because you knew there were a couple of cunts who would then comment on and bully you for your physical appearance. You rationally maybe knew that they were all going through the same stuff as you were, but adolescence is really tough: hormones fuck you up in a way, both physically and mentally, that, I think, we tend to forget.
Now, imagine you're 14 again and not only you have to change in front of girls your own age - but also in front of a boy posing as a member of your own sex, who deep down you know is there just to get some fap material to wank later. If this doesn't spark some push back then I don't know what will.
Also, I'm not sure how it works in the US, but where I'm from the teachers would almost always never be present in the locker room when we were changing. I guess that's just a plus for these "progressives": unregulated and unprotected access to a female's space.
In conclusion, as Pim Fortuyn used to say (I'm paraphrasing here): "The emancipation of women always precedes the emancipation of homosexuals". It seems to me that these people have forgotten it, and they absolutely don't give a shit about women anymore. Fuck me.
Now, imagine you're 14 again and not only you have to change in front of girls your own age - but also in front of a boy posing as a member of your own sex, who deep down you know is there just to get some fap material to wank later. If this doesn't spark some push back then I don't know what will.
Also, I'm not sure how it works in the US, but where I'm from the teachers would almost always never be present in the locker room when we were changing. I guess that's just a plus for these "progressives": unregulated and unprotected access to a female's space.
In conclusion, as Pim Fortuyn used to say (I'm paraphrasing here): "The emancipation of women always precedes the emancipation of homosexuals". It seems to me that these people have forgotten it, and they absolutely don't give a shit about women anymore. Fuck me.
Yik
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The Maya Forstater court case (sorry if this is not the place for this, couldn't find it mentioned elsewhere)
Maya was employed for a 'think tank' Centre for Global Development (CGD) and has done a lot to promote 'women's rights'. She is a TERF though and was dismissed from her job for twittering that 'trans women are not real women'. She isn't one of the crazee terfs though and has stated that trans people have rights and these need to be evaluated alongside with womens rights. She also stated that people can have different beliefs and work together.
So she has taken her employeers to court for unfair dismissal. Fundamentally the case is a based on whether it is accepatable to hold a belief that people born men are men and those born women are women. She has been questioned on how long she believed 'women are women' and what 'celebrities believe in sexual dimorphism' (she suggested Darwin). It does not appear to be the sanest of court procedings.
Twitter
https://twitter.com/MForstater?ref_src=twsrc^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^author
https://twitter.com/wwwritingclub
UK media
Medium article https://archive.ph/PofQo
The Times https://archive.ph/5GOxQ
The Guardian https://archive.ph/67m03
Daily Mail https://archive.ph/lrr2M
Maya was employed for a 'think tank' Centre for Global Development (CGD) and has done a lot to promote 'women's rights'. She is a TERF though and was dismissed from her job for twittering that 'trans women are not real women'. She isn't one of the crazee terfs though and has stated that trans people have rights and these need to be evaluated alongside with womens rights. She also stated that people can have different beliefs and work together.
So she has taken her employeers to court for unfair dismissal. Fundamentally the case is a based on whether it is accepatable to hold a belief that people born men are men and those born women are women. She has been questioned on how long she believed 'women are women' and what 'celebrities believe in sexual dimorphism' (she suggested Darwin). It does not appear to be the sanest of court procedings.
https://twitter.com/MForstater?ref_src=twsrc^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^author
https://twitter.com/wwwritingclub
UK media
Medium article https://archive.ph/PofQo
The Times https://archive.ph/5GOxQ
The Guardian https://archive.ph/67m03
Daily Mail https://archive.ph/lrr2M
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As if it's a new thing for women to try and steal every male space in existence. Used to just be radfems and fag hags, but at least they weren't trying to wear a male skin and pretend they understood us.
I think the one thing we can take away from the first two decades of the 21st century is that men and women need environments where they can get away from one another and be with their own sex, gay as that might seem. It might even reduce the desire to troon. I'll have to work up a proper argument for that, though. Too drunk right now.
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wait until all the troon "women" get wind of this and start complaining about not getting any attention.
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today on twitter: an orthodox Hasidic rabbi trooned out, wrote a book, gets interviewed by NBC. (video at link)
From ultra-Orthodox rabbi to openly transgender: Abby Stein shares her story
Trans advocate Abby Stein opens up about her nontraditional journey in “Becoming Eve: My Journey from Ultra-Orthodox Rabbi to Transgender Woman."
From ultra-Orthodox rabbi to openly transgender: Abby Stein shares her story
Trans advocate Abby Stein opens up about her nontraditional journey in “Becoming Eve: My Journey from Ultra-Orthodox Rabbi to Transgender Woman."
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I really wonder why he doesn't mention the fate of his son.
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You've gotta buy the book if you want to know that info. Most likely, he abandoned mom and kid to pursue his new sexy life. There isn't anything heroic about this guy. He left one flavor of crazy for a different one. Crazy is the only consistency in this story.
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I can't believe the thing that can unite the sane members of both sexes are opposite sex creeps trying to worm their way into places they don't belong. Make a sigil of a blue masculine hand and a pink feminine hand gripping each other and call it "The anti-troon squad"
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Claims to be a man. Acts like a child.
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So he's a diddler. Got it.