Kate Rayner ( Studio technical director at The Coalition) comes out as transgender

[SlipperyMoose]

Whoever mentioned the responses on the older forum...wow you weren't kidding. Such a shame.

Anyway...I'm glad people can be comfortable in their own skin. Good for her.

 

[mentok15]

Congrats for her! And it's also great that she feels supported and comfortable enough to post this!

Her work at The Coalition has also been amazing!

 

[Khanimus]

Happy for her

 

[entrydenied]

Congratulations to her!

I kind of think that she's making her announcement this way so that she can show support to her colleagues who might still be closeted

Christ, you were not kidding. Did that place just go hyper right wing or something after all that went down?

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Right after it went down. Apparently they unbanned everyone and the hyper right wingers returned and became the only users.

 

[Nexus2049]

Congrats to her! I'm sure she's happy to be able to work at a place that is inclusive and supportive, as well. Thats makes me happy to see.

 

[John Bender]

Good for her. And nice to see that her colleagues support her.

Good to see Phil comment publicly so soon after too

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Do not read the replies to his comment. For the sake of your own sanity.

 

[Dark-Cloudz]

I didn't realise how odious the old place has become.

 

[arsene_P5]

Grats!
I can see why the comments locked, Gears is such a dude bro game.

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Xbox Twitter replies are as toxic as expected.

Good for her for coming out and I hope she is happier now that she has!

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Can we please not turn this into a Gears/Xbox thing, because sadly and disgustingly some people, regardless of the community, are shit and would insult her or others that dare come out and post something like this. Thus the comments are locked on her twitter.

I think it's good that she has the support of people, she cares about and her employer. That's what really matters.

 

[Kasey]

Lots of toxicity in the replies of course, but I enjoyed this

 

[Trup1aya]

Christ, you were not kidding. Did that place just go hyper right wing or something after all that went down?

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the right wing are the ones who stuck around.

 

[Deleted member 17184]

While Googling her, I accidentally got to the old place thread about this and WOW don't go there if you don't want your day ruined. It's basically the polar opposite of this thread. OMG

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With all due respect, do we need to talk about that place? Just pretend it doesn't exist - it's better that way.

Let's celebrate Kate's new chapter in her life.

 

[Chromie]

Woah there, pal. The problem is it feels in service of the corporation not the person. She name checks Microsoft, her role, and the studio she works at. Why? I'm sure a large part is due to her being proud to work there and happy that they support her. But it's also to promote a favourable image of Microsoft as a company. Somewhere, in a board meeting, some line on some graph showed that being inclusive (which: yes, good) equals more revenue. So initiatives were put in place to promote this kind of thing.

Like I said, I'm glad Kate can live her life exactly the way she wants but there are so many people who can't, whose identities have been invalidated over and over for years and years by billion dollar corporations totally uninterested in their well being. People who did the work, wrote the rulebooks, got the message out, only for the corporations that oppressed them to swoop in last minute and co-opt their struggle for profit.

It's the overriding sense that people can't just be people in this capitalist hellscape: they have to be their work, they have to be their brands.

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You don't get to control how someone comes out. Fuck off with this dude.

 

[RowdyReverb]

This news makes me so glad. I can see why some might be cynical about the PR aspect given how companies use social media, but the bottom line is that making a very public display of having a trans person in a leadership position helps to normalize this and give trans people hope for progress. Diversity, especially in leadership positions, is absolutely something to be proud of and public about because it can set a positive trend

 

[Antrax]

Please don't police someone's deeply personal message or their co-workers show of support. This means a lot to them and you're just playing thought police, and for what?

nobody should read a thread like this and come away worried about how they phrase their coming out to not be too corporate.

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I appreciate this.

Happy for her. I hope she gets some visibility at events. The median gamer is....not supportive and I'd be a lot more comfortable if that were to change.

 

[Joltik]

Good for her! Glad she got the support from the rest of her colleagues.

 

[Lamptramp]

Good for her!!

Its so lovely to see she was comfortable coming out and to get support from her peers!

❤

 

[Rover_]

this is great! congrats to her!

very nice to see the supports from her industry colleagues.

 

[DJtal]

Not very surprising to me, when I was working for Microsoft a while ago, they where already very open about the community.

 

[ghostcrew]

Congrats to Kate. Absolutely delighted for her!

 

[Deleted member 39479]

This is awesome!!! Congrats to Kate!

 

[SigSig]

That's great!
Phil really should have made that QRT mention-replyable only, considering the original tweet is. There's a lot of disgusting replies :( why are gamers like this.

 

[Ego]

It's the overriding sense that people can't just be people in this capitalist hellscape: they have to be their work, they have to be their brands.

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Very good point mate. I agree.

 

[CeVee]

Awesome news and congratulations Kate!

 

[Deleted member 51248]

Good for her.
The team at TC pulled off some amazing stuff in Gears 5 thanks to her and the technical team, look forward to seeing what technical wizardry she brings to the next game.