The transkids.us hoax: Another Kiira Triea victim comes forward |
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Denise Tree (aka Kiira Triea), the 57-year-old computer technician who is author of the transkids.us hoax site, has just completed her one-year probation stemming from some legal troubles in 2005.
Now another victim of Denise’s online hoaxes has come forward. A reader who has asked to be called ‘Cleopatra Jones’ notes:
I’ve been conned, in the past, by yet another of Kiira’s “identities”. In this case, perhaps the most believable (because let’s face it we want to believe stories similar to ours) i have heard, namely one “Janelle Laren.” I stood up for Kiira, defended her from nay-sayers and spoke of her well. I got conned. It became obvious to me when I realized she’d called me...from a disposable cell phone. Fool me once...and then I realized that all her ‘personalities’ had the same cell phone number and that exchanges often included a lot of talking about Kiira. She claimed to go to Washington College (in Chesterton, MD), but didn’t show up in their student directory because “the bricks are after me”.
I was able to figure out that it was all a ruse, but people I know still believe in the Kiira fantasy. I don’t even know what to say to them; Kiira is good at pressing the right buttons for the right reaction, and I think she knows well how to appeal to the dispossessed youngsters. It’s messy being young and “transitioned” and alone; I never met another transwoman until I was 20, and she told me what an awful bitch I was and tried to get me kicked out of school. I get the pain, trust me. I get 5th period gym when everyone wonders why I change in the toilet stall. I get a lot. Kiira was really good at appealing to that and using it to lure me in. She was able to con out the pain and then use my experiences in a bad dress as those of another person.
Kiira wanted to know about my medical background in extreme detail; I think the woman asked more questions about me than my gynecologist does, and that’s saying something. I’m sort of a genetic freak; I have some mental issues and minor deformities. Sure enough, one of her “personalities’ quickly gained most of my problems. Another one expressed a FREAKY interest in the same subject I was getting a degree in at the time. Kiira and “Janelle” and “Alejandra” all hated all transwomen who were lesbians, except of course me, because, like, I met the almighty BBL standard of transitioning before 18 and thus all bets were off.
Transkids.us got formed and i wanted on board until i realized it was just going to be an autogynephilia-obsessed crap pile. Kiira’s amazing ability to morph her age eventually got to me and when confronted she basically said that this is lies on the internet spread by those who hate her who are of course all autogynephiles. Any 26-year-old transwoman who sleeps with a chick? Autogynephile! Much special loathing was directed at Emi Briet, who I felt kind of sorry for but oh lord they enjoyed sticking her to the point she ended up on somethingawful.com. Kiira’s mults infected the antijen mailing list. I had to clean up a couple of people i’m proud to call friends because of the savaging they got at the hands of kiira’s mults. The autogynephilia debates raged. I hid under a rock.
Whether you’re gonna choose to believe it or not, i transitioned a long time ago. I’m 30 now, so let’s just say more than half my life. I don’t claim to be any authority, fashion plate, amazing talent, etc. I have a good job and a pretty, smart girlfriend and a cute apartment and a nice cat and an ancient clunker of a car that’s gonna fail getting smogged. No delusions of grandeur, though maybe the apartment isn’t that cute. I met some good people in the 01-04 phase, got the heck out of my mom’s house, and moved across the country. I retreated rapidly back into that hole; Seattle is insular and I ran afoul of Anne Lawrence *really* quickly in my crappy retail job which had a lot of contact with the public. We’ve both seen her face to face and I think I’d rather face Godzilla. Generally, Anne’s favorite thing to do was threaten to out me to get whatever she wanted. I just don’t understand why she hangs on to such prominence in our community when we should be doing our best to disown someone as dangerous as her.
Young people who wish to get legitimate information should avoid the transkids.us hoax site and check out legitimate sites by and for young trans people. At this point, the only people who still believe transkids.us is legitimate are a handful of gullible academics, such as Alice Dreger and J. Michael Bailey.
