A former employee of Wikipedia’s parent company has filed a federal lawsuit alleging she was fired after reporting her direct supervisor for gender discrimination and harassment.

The woman, Kayla Mae, was hired by the Wikimedia Foundation in November 2022, where she worked as a software engineer for nearly two years.

Her role allowed her to work remotely from Texas, and she was assigned to work on a team managed by Dennis Mburugu, a Wikimedia employee based in Kenya.

Within the first few months of her employment, she encountered problems with Mburugu, according to her complaint. Among other things, Mburugu asked her inappropriate questions about her sexual identity — she is a transgender female — and inquired about her medical history, Mae wrote in the complaint.

  • blakenong
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    1 day ago

    Look at you tripping all over yourself trying to defend your sensitive white heterosexual male feelings. The problem with people like you is that you are incapable of understanding anything outside of yourself because you’ve never had to face any real challenges in life. Then you go off and mock other people as if you’re somehow superior because of what you were born with but never earned.

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      1 day ago

      you’ve never had to face any real challenges in life.

      And you know this how?

      Then you go off and mock other people

      How did I mock you? You mentioned yourself it was a factor in your understanding of society. I just tried to show you that it might not work quite the way you think.

      as if you’re somehow superior because of what you were born with

      What was I born with? I was born with just about the most basic privileges everybody in Denmark was born with at the time. As far as I remember our debate started with exactly the fact that I consider USA a shitty country, because those privileges don’t exist in USA. And for some reason you defended USA?
      Lucky for you, that you are not stuck in one of the worst states, maybe you would see things differently if you were.

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        It started because you don’t understand how state vs federal government works, and that you assume every place in the US is the same because all you do is drink up the media like it’s the only facts that exist. Then you shit all over innocent people and think you’re the good guy.

        Since we are shitting, maybe if your mind wasn’t so irreparably flawed you wouldn’t be getting off on the misfortunes of others so frequently.

        Goodbye

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          It started because you don’t understand how state vs federal government works,

          That was your claim, but I already explained that actually I do. Here we even learn about American democracy in public school, so don’t project your own ignorance onto me.

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            23 hours ago

            But you don’t. Or you wouldn’t have thought the DMV in Florida represents the entire country. You keep saying you know, but everything out of your mouth suggests you have minimal knowledge. The kind of minimal knowledge that comes from a chapter of a book in public school.

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              23 hours ago

              Or you wouldn’t have thought the DMV in Florida represents the entire country.

              Again, that’s your flawed interpretation, the DMV is just an example of it.

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                21 hours ago

                Your comments speak to your ignorance, I don’t really have to prove anything.