Twitter Tranny Advocate for “Women in Tech” Accused of Raping Wife

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Dana Contreras, a man, married his wife Melissa in 2007. Then he had surgery to mutilate himself so that he could pretend to be a woman. Then despite not going to college, got a top job at Twitter where he became an advocate for transgender issues, but then things didn’t go so well.

Contreras, who now also goes by Dana McCallum, has been charged with raping his wife.

A prominent advocate for transgender and women’s rights in the tech world has been charged with raping his wife, The San Francisco Examiner has learned.

Dana McCallum, a senior engineer at Twitter who speaks and writes about women’s and transgender rights and technology issues, was arrested Jan. 26 and booked into County Jail on suspicion of five felonies, according to the Sheriff’s Department.

McCallum, 31, whose legal name is Dana Contreras, was charged Jan. 29 with five felonies, including three counts of spousal rape, one count of false imprisonment and one count of domestic violence, according to the District Attorney’s Office. He has since pleaded not guilty.

McCallum has been out of jail on $350,000 bail. A condition of his release is that he attend AA meetings, according to court documents.

So apparently, and not unusually, there’s a trifecta of psychological problems here. Transgender is not a birth identity, as some activists like to claim, it’s a mental breakdown.

A December story in Business Insider listed McCallum as one of the most important gay people in the tech world.

According to McCallum’s profile on the online publication Model View Culture, for which he wrote about transgender people and women in tech in January 2013, “Dana McCallum has been working in software engineering and engineering leadership since 2000. As an advocate for women in technology and the LGBT community.”

Also an advocate for raping them.

A lot of men who claim to be women deeply resent actual women and violently lash out at them. Mr. McCallum/ Contreras would not be the first man pretending to be a woman to behave that way.

Tech sites frequently interviewed Dana McCallum as representing “women in tech” when he wasn’t a woman. He admitted as much in an article in which he said that, “My own success as a trans woman in tech rests on a bedrock of white, middle-class, and yes, male, privilege; few trans people are so fortunate.”

Meanwhile the alleged rapist, accused the Lean Ins of “reinforcing patriarchal, capitalist structures”.

Like rape.

  • wileyvet

    Claim to be a Muslim and all charges will be dropped as a result of “cultural” misunderstanding.

    • A Z

      It has worked in Australia and England.

  • A Z

    I find it odd that he wants to go by the name McCallum. There is absolutely nothing wrong with the name Contreras. Dana might think there is or might have thought other people thought so. Dana appears to be mixed race (White/Hispanic). He might have encountered people who used racial slurs. For every one of those he had to encounter the opposite. The fact that he is mixed race proves that not everyone is racist.

    I agree though that Dana has a crushed psyche. That has my theory for while. After their psyche gets crushed then they get tougher as a person, yet they are still deformed. People (animals/anything living) are always competing for resources. There is always competition and jostling for position. People are bound to get hurt and not every cookie breaks the same way. Some break like Dana did (& some commit suicide, others become psychopaths, other get a few wrungs higher and do unto other what was did tho them, and other shrug it off).

    Spanish: habitational name from Conteraras, a place in the province of Burgos. The place name is derived from Late Latin contraria ‘surrounding area’, ‘region’ (from the preposition contra ‘opposite’, ‘against’, ‘hard by’)

    http://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?surname=contreras

    • Daniel Greenfield

      Like a tree that grows around a fence, stronger but deformed

      • A Z

        In a gay forum they were talking about the story form 2 months ago of higher steroid use in the gay community.

        Sure it is anecdotal (the forum not the study) about how they felt put down and then went into overdrive to get fit. So physically they indeed did get stronger. Psychologically in some ways they also get stronger too.

        • Daniel Greenfield

          Insecurities and various demons can be powerful motivators

    • maisie
    • maisie

      that’s a link to his real bio/original name. no latino roots – took wife’s legal name when they married in july 2007. ‘mccallum’ means ‘son of the dove’ in gaelic, which he studies, and he’s a pilot. no bottom surgery to date; still anatomically male. so confusing…

      • A Z

        Your link seems to be comedy and contains little to no information. I don’t know how much (if any) of the information can trust.

        He came of age around 2000/2001. Until we know where he went to HS and college (?) etc we don’t know much about him.

        But if he did take his wife’s legal name it would some things.

        I got to wonder if he “feels” he has to be a triple” minority in order to hold a job.

        I know of people who changed their name from Charles to Carlos when the first diversity wave hit in the early 1970s. Geraldo Rivera went from Gerald Rivers to his original name. All those mean evil white people.
        But how does one explain John Cougar Mellencamp, Gary Hartpence and Joe Pagliarulo? We are talking about a German name, Engish name and an Italian name. All of these names were Americanized. My point being that this cannot simply be explained by white racism as the Left would explain it.

        • maisie

          just the facts here, sir or ma’am:d has has openly confirmed many times that he grew up in bloomington, in. even delivered a speech to high school students there last year about his trans ‘journey’. neumeyer went off to boarding school in az after having difficulties in bloomington. lest you still doubt my info, 1) google daniel neumeyer the judson school arizona (timeline fits perfectly); 2) google and find the (uk) daily mail’s article on the case, which links to a transcript of dan/a’s very autobiographical / aforementioned high school speech; and 3) check out the dana mccallum tech speech on yt; loads of info re: bloomington childhood as well as aviation. p.s. yes, the initial link was to a site with satirical elements, but the last few (unsettling) lines of the entry perfectly sum up glaring underlying truths cleverly masked by that very satire. the line about ‘dan’ meaning ‘failure’ as well as ‘man’ in japanese is quite chilling. in conclusion: dana (mccallum)contreras of now-california was born daniel neumeyer of then-indiana in 1981. these details (among others, especially that dana has fully intact ‘boy bits’) will all emerge as the case progresses anyway…stay tuned…

    • contrarian

      Original name Daniel Neumeyer. Marriedin Indiana to wife with last name Contreras (their registry is still online :), it’s not too late! ). When he decided to present as a woman he changed his name to Dana Contreras. More recently calling himself Dana McCallum but more known in the industry as Dana Contreras. I’ve met the guy in real life and he doesn’t look nearly as fetching as these photos suggest.

      • maisie

        thank you, contrarian ! good to have some validation of the info i posted a few days back. don’t know d personally but have mutual acquaintances (lived in indianapolis for a few years.) i suspect d is not fetching irl, just somewhat photogenic. many actually do look better in pics…maisie

  • noddy

    This feminist blog was shut down by WordPress after the owner posted about the rape charges. Hello WordPress: Do women have a right to free speech or only men?

    http://gendertrender.wordpress.com/2014/04/11/dana-mccallum-male-senior-twitter-programmer-and-self-proclaimed-transgender-woman-charged-with-three-felony-counts-of-rape/

    On Gender Trender see the rape joke which McCallum posted on Twitter.

    • A Z

      Do you want to know who McCallum is? If you do you will have to become a forensic psychologist. You will have to interview his peers from pre-k, kindergarten, grade school, middle school and high school. You will have to talk to family members, friends and other peers from around the old neighborhood. How many you will have to interview I do not know.

      You might be able to interview him, but this will be filled with deceit even if a person is relatively honest. You will have to question them like how psychologists sometimes set up tests where they ostensibly are testing one thing but really are testing another. You have to figure out what McCallum admires what he fears, what insecurities and conceits he has. You will have your answer.

      Or you can go to a LGBT bookstore or queer studies department and drink the Kool Aide.

      Why do this? If you can do one you can do near all,of them and untie a Gordian knot. Maybe an environmental conference will not have so much drama and can concentrate on the matter at hand.

      There is a a flying insect that where males will present as females. other males thinking they are females will present them with gifts of food. The pretender will then abscond with the food. Are these insects gay or is it just a trick a stratagem? Might someone who wants to be a software engineer with no education and what kind of skills be scared enough or sly enough to resent as transgendered to land a job at a tech company?

      Can’t find the type of wasp or whatever that pretends to be female to steal food gifts but here is this.

      http://sexyscience1.wordpress.com/2014/01/06/gay-insects/

  • Piquette

    “Then he had surgery to mutilate himself so that he could pretend to be a woman.”

    McCallum may have have had mutilating surgeries to help him pretend to be a woman, but his male genitals are apparently intact. From what I’ve gathered, the rape charges specify that he used his penis to sexually assault his wife.

    Many, perhaps most, “trans women”–i.e., males under the delusion that they are female–do not have so-called sex-reassignment surgery. Most insist that their penises are female organs, and that anyone who challenges their magical way of thinking is a bigot.