Adelaide Kramer was in the audience during an event at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where she used to be a student, when the speaker, Milo Yiannopoulos, projected a photograph of her on the wall. He then launched into a hateful tirade against Kramer, calling her a "tranny." The photo had been taken early in her transition, and the audience—a room filled by her classmates—laughed as Yiannopoulos degraded her.
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The attack went on. Earlier in 2016, Kramer had filed a complaint against the school for preventing her from using the women's locker room, and Yiannopoulos suggested that Kramer's presence in women's spaces on campus was predatory. "Milo made this implication that I'm just in there to check out women," Kramer tells Broadly. The moment Yiannopoulos publicly singled her out was painful, and she immediately felt unsafe: "I realized, Shit, coming here to protest with my presence was a mistake."
"I should not have come in here," she recalls thinking. "I should have stayed outside." That's where her friends were—outside, protesting the fact that Yiannopoulos was allowed to speak. "I didn't know if I was going to get attacked or not. I was just like, 'Dear god, I hope nobody recognizes me.'"
"When you have a room full of people that are just laughing at you as if you're some freak of nature, like you have some kind of mental illness—which is how he described me—it's like, I don't even know how to describe it, but it was way too much," Kramer continues.
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When Yiannopoulos first mentioned Kramer's name, Kramer thought that the college administrators—who she says were present in the audience—would immediately put a stop to his presentation. Instead, she says, Yiannopoulos, was allowed to continue. The following day, Chancellor Mone sent out an email to the school, explaining both his legal obligation to allow speakers of all political views to express their opinions and the importance of protecting free speech. He also added that he disagrees with Yiannopoulos' views and condemns hate-mongering, and insisted that he wouldn't "stand silently by" while a student is "personally and wrongfully attacked."
Kramer viewed Mone's email as insufficient; in return, she sent her own email to the school, lampooning Mone for his decision to allow Yiannopolous to speak in the first place. "Milo has a supremely extensive, highly-documented track record of doing precisely this," Kramer wrote, explaining that the targeted harassment should be no surprise. "As I've already said, you knew this would happen. We told you it would. And we told you again. And again."
Today, Kramer is moving on, but she feels that what happened to her was wrong. "I think verbal assault should be called verbal assault," she explains, adding that it "doesn't add anything constructive to speech; verbal assault is damaging [and] leads people to suicide."
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Kramer says that she (unsurprisingly) received a deluge of hateful messages from people after Yiannopoulos targeted her—
https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/trans-student-harassed-by-milo-yiannopoulos-speaks-out
Do you understand how foolish you sound?
