Military pilot Jo Ellis said she had to hire private armed security for her family because of the false claims, which went viral on social media.
A transgender military pilot filed a defamation lawsuit Wednesday against a conservative influencer who falsely claimed on social media that she was flying the helicopter that collided with a commercial jet near Reagan National Airport in January, killing 67 people.
“I want to hold this person accountable for what they did to me,” Jo Ellis, a pilot who has served more than 15 years in the Virginia Army National Guard, said in a statement to NBC News. “It’s become too common that people can say horrible things about someone, profit at their expense, and get away with it.”
On Jan. 30, less than 24 hours after the crash, conservative influencer Matt Wallace, who has 2.2 million followers on the social media platform X, shared a post from another account he operates stating that the helicopter pilot was transgender, according to the lawsuit. Wallace included a photo of Ellis, and the post went viral, the lawsuit states.
usually the pronouns are listed somewhere or you ask
There’s a reason many trans spaces in Lemmy require listed pronouns, it removes the guesswork and you can reference inline.
If you’re using gendered pronouns for most cis people but then specifically degendering trans people it’s going to eventually rub people the wrong way. People aren’t going to care if you make an error while being well intentioned, especially if you ask for more information and correct yourself going forward.
That’s great, for people in that ecosystem. I’m not there. I help when asked, I get in the way if there is a problem just like I do during domestic abuse extractions, but I don’t go into trans spaces for the same reasons I don’t go into black ones. I’m not wanted there unless I’m bringing a donation. And I’m too poor for that.
That would be a problem. If it was something I did. Fortunately by being consistent that isn’t an issue.
Sounds like you have no reason to be defensive. Here’s some posts of yours if you wanted to edit the binary pronouns used for cis people to be they/them to be more consistent though.
https://lemmy.world/comment/16503438 https://lemmy.world/comment/16496354 https://lemmy.world/comment/16494651 https://lemmy.world/comment/16493799 https://lemmy.world/comment/16493764 https://lemmy.world/comment/16450566 https://lemmy.world/comment/16450226 https://lemmy.world/comment/16332934
Thank you. I’ve had some serious sleep issues lately and haven’t been on as diligent. I fixed them all.
no worries, sleep deprivation can be quite taxing
They won’t.
Edit: they did, I stand corrected.
I did.
+1 faith in humanity
Thank you, friend.