Team 10, the social influencer team of Jake Paul, a 22-year-old vlogger with 19 million YouTube subscribers, has been accused of transphobia after allegedly rejecting two trans women from entering their Los Angeles home.
In a recently posted video, Lilah Gibney, a trans female blogger, claims that she and her best friend, Kendall Raindrop, had gone to an afterparty late one night at Paul’s Team 10 house, a $7.3 million home with eight bedrooms and roughly 11 bathrooms where Paul and his cohorts plan new videos.
The two women took an Uber to the crowded afterparty after being invited by another friend. After arriving, Gibney says, “One of the f*cking editors, his name is Blaine [O’Roark]… he came up to us two and our friend who was [cis female]” and suggested that they go elsewhere even though they’d just recently arrived.
Gibney says when their friend asked why they should leave, Blaine reportedly said, “I thought you guys were going to come with real girls.”
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At this point in the video, it cuts to video footage of O’Roark ejecting the young women, recorded by Raindrop. The Daily Dot describes the interaction between them:
“I’m not being transphobic,” O’Roark can be heard saying. “How is it transphobic?”
“You literally just said (Gibney’s) not a girl,” Raindrop said.
Later, O’Roark said, “I’m not trying to be disrespectful. I’m just being real… I was told girls were coming.”
As the YouTube video continues, Raindrop said she asked O’Roark if she looked like a boy, and he said no.
“He literally was saying I wasn’t a girl, and I was like, ‘Do I not look like a girl?’ and he was like, ‘Yeah, but you’re not one.’”
Back to Gibney’s video, she clarifies that she likes Jake Paul and finds him kind and respectful, but adds, “What we just experienced needs to be talked about because it’s something that trans people face literally every day.”
She called the ejection “embarrassing and degrading and disgusting and frustrating.”
Here is Gibney’s video about the incident:
Jake Paul is the brother of Logan Paul, the YouTuber infamous for acting like an overprivileged d-bag around Japan before showing a dead man hanging from a tree.
Jake Paul and Team 10 have yet to publicly comment on the incident. However, The Daily Dot reports, “A Team 10 manager named Adam Quinn reached out [to Gibney] and asked her to take down the video. Quinn did not immediately respond to The Daily Dot for comment, but texts shared with The Daily Dot show that Team 10 is threatening legal action against Gibney.”
Loki
This a residence, not a restaurant. You’re not entitled to be in someone’s house if they don’t want you there.
Raphael
And they said anything about law or legal action!? They’re only showing the kind of people some of them are… They didn’t just show up at their house, they were invited and then kicked out. He’s in his right, but he’s still a piece of sh*t.
Loki
Their friend invited them, not the home owner/resident.
Raphael
I know that! But he was aware that people were coming. Also, I don’t think Blaine is the owner of the house… Either way, as I said before, he is in his right; but to kick someone out just because they are trans, makes him a piece of sh*t.
Mikey E
@Raphael I’m gay and if I was throwing a party for men, where guys want to meet guys, and a couple of “transmen”(aka females on testosterone injections) showed up, they would be out the door ASAP.
Brian
If they showed up with a couple of 60 year old grandmothers instead of trans women the same thing would have happened. They probably are pieces of sh!t, but not because they asked these women to leave. They’re horny twenty something straight guys, of course they want real women at the party.
Godabed
@Mikey E. you are part of the problem, you’re the same type of Gay man that discriminated against trans people in the 60s, 70s, and today. You’re ignorant, repugnant, and dated. Go to a trump rally where your views are shared.
Chrisk
They didn’t want chicks with dicks there and they kindly asked you to leave. Big woop. It was a private party so get over it.
Oh and Jake Paul is a major douchebag and the fact that you still like him so much is very telling.
sfhally
Am I the only one who’s suspicious of this whole thing? Seems awfully like it’s a win-win for the both of them. Driving clicks to their respective sites; controversy always leads to more attention.
Also, I weep for this generation. Why are these people even famous?
Vince
When you see the kids out there glued to their phones this is the shit they’re looking at. I’ve seen them and I don’t get it. They’ve tapped into some kind of adolescent need and it’s paid off very well for them.
Gay Veteran
I’m less concerned with them being kicked out and more concerned with their choice of company. Trash!
PinkoOfTheGange
So his editor , the guy who cuts the videos, threw them out not Paul? Then why that headline?
It is a private party true, but this is a legitimate criticism of why they were booted. And it true any legal action by Paul’s production company would get tossed on 1st review by the courts, with fees going to the girls’ attorneys.
poundmetoo
Anyone who would want to attend a party thrown by this guy needs their head examined.
Loki
“Do I not look like a girl?”
And I thought we were past judging people by appearances…
Why would a bunch of str8 guys want two transgenders hanging around when they’re trying to hook up with bio-females?? Did they think they’d be into them? I really don’t get why they were there at all… perhaps they attended the party knowing they’d get the boot, so that they could make a video and cash in on some social media outrage…
Mikey E
Transgenders spend vast amounts of time and energy forcing public institutions and businesses to sustain their delusions of being the opposite sex. But they can’t force individuals into believing it and it stings them when they realize that no one is buying into their fantasy. Those guys wanted girls at their party, and males who “identify as girls” aren’t girls.
Lucifer
No, it’s only the uneducated a$$holes like yourself that don’t get it. I could sit here typing all the medically proven science behind why you are completely wrong with everything you have said, quoting sources and statistics, and it wouldn’t matter at all, would it? Like, I can tell you that the newest Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM–5) from the American Psychological Association, and the World Heath Organization (You know, the people who are actually the top in their field across the globe about any medical condition known to humanity… yeah, THEM) disagree with your backward thinking assessment of the topic of transgenderism. That being said, you ignorant fuq, your opinion only matters to you and other wrong-thinking a$$hats like you. The only transgender agenda that exists is to be treated with the same equal respect as individual human beings as anyone and everyone else. You are a transphobe. Pure and simple. I don’t care about your sexual identity, sexual orientation, gender, or gender identity. You are a POS. That’s all anyone needs to know about you.
Brian
The one on the right looks like a guy went to Party City and bought a costume called “Girl”. What straight guy wants that flirting with him when he’s trying to get drunk and laid?
dinard38
LOL!!! Exactly what I was thinking. Sorry, all I see is a dude with a bad wig and over dramatic hand gestures. And that’s what Blaine saw as well, and he was like…..nope!!!
Speaking of “like”, if I took a shot of tequila every time they said “like”, I’d be in the ER for alcohol poisoning. So damn annoying!!
TheMarc
I think this is more misogynistic than transphobic. Sure, the two women asked to leave where trans; but I think there is a deeper problem there than just transphobia. Why the insistence on insuring they brought “real women?” It wasn’t to insure the a lively and diverse environment. The last thing they wanted was conversation or to simply have a good time.
In any case, this is what you get when you hang out with a group of young people that have exhibited little to no maturity. This isn’t very shocking or surprising and barely news. Some here have noted the ladies were ejected from a residence not a restaurant; so staffer was well within their rights. Agreed. But I’m not opposed to shining a light on this type of behavior. To center it on Jake Paul may be a little unfair since he personally did not eject them. It certainly reflects on him; but he is not directly responsible.
PugsBuddy
I still can’t believe Chloe Bennet from “Agents of Shield” dated this fool.
Dick musta been extra good.
Melanesian
No she dated the other imbecile brother.
Geeker
Both the Paul brothers are “phobic” of anyone who isn’t straight and white and that documentary Shane Dawson did clearly shows that Jake is a bit…off. Chloe Bennett dated Logan, not Jake which shows she has even worse taste in men than the poor girl dating Jake because Logan Paul comes off as a genuinely heartless sociopath.
Melanesian
He’s actually engaged to Tana Mongoose & they seem to suit each other. Hopefully they don’t procreate.
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
I AM COMPLETLY OUTRAGED!!!!
(that this Dbag can afford a 7.3 million Dollar home…)
Melanesian
And yet he’s determined to tackle bullying, specifically cyber bullying since he hates it when people online laugh at him. What a dipshit.
scotty
put these creepy teens and the rest of their ilk on a “pay no mind list.”
they are beyond useless. kinda like trump at this point.