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.
Oh boy:
This was your own comment I responded to, So clearly you think it’s important to your position yourself.
You used it in a couple of comments as you thought it was somehow a defense for your position.
That was your response, and notice how that comment ended the discussion. Because it was too stupid to respond to.
I don’t care if you are gay or not, but clearly it’s an issue to you.