Cornell 7 rape accuser claims she faced bizarre accusation in newly resurfaced text messages

The former Cornell student accusing seven fraternity brothers of gang raping her complained to one of them about how she was once wrongly mistaken as being transgender, newly resurfaced text messages show.The accuser, identified only as Jane Doe, texted Matthew Umar Ingalls about the cruel rumors when they were initially being amiable in the days after the October 2024 party that she later alleged had been a gang rape, according to the messages obtained by CBS News.“People always want to talk about soemthing like i had transgender allegations last year but i just gave it no attention and it disappeared,” Doe wrote to Ingalls of how they should cope with people talking about the party three days earlier.“Silence is the most powerful response always but i always want to say something is the prob,” she advised Ingalls, weeks before reporting what happened at the party as rape.A day later, on Oct.23, Doe brought up the transgender rumors again to Ingalls while saying that the rumors over the Chi Phi party were “ruining” her life.“Also i had transgender allegations last year too so if anyone mentions it i mention the fact that i’ve been rumored about so many times.

And we know i’m not transgender so,” Doe wrote.Ingalls replied with two emojis of someone crying with laughter.The latest messages again show Doe being friends with some of the men she later accused, which her lawyer, Thomas Giuffra, told CBS News was “a textbook response to sexual assault” with “classic symptoms of delayed recognition.”In the same thread to Ingalls, Doe had dismissed the gossips as people just “jealous of us.”“But also like everyone needs to grow up cause sexuality and sex and s[–]t is changing and stuff like this is going to become more common,, i’m also really open minded tho.“i luv u king,, also tell anyone who gives u s[–]t that i’ll actually beat them up that don’t want the smoke i promise.”In a separate message, Doe asked another of the ...