{"id":66328,"date":"2025-01-28T20:07:17","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T20:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/apex-legends-pro-faces-backlash-over-transgender-slur-and-deletes-social-media-dexerto\/"},"modified":"2025-01-28T20:07:17","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T20:07:17","slug":"apex-legends-pro-faces-backlash-over-transgender-slur-and-deletes-social-media-dexerto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/apex-legends-pro-faces-backlash-over-transgender-slur-and-deletes-social-media-dexerto\/","title":{"rendered":"Apex Legends pro faces backlash over transgender slur and deletes social media &#8211; Dexerto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apex Legends pro faces backlash over transgender slur and deletes social media RespawnApex Legends pro Jaeden \u2018Caprah\u2019 Valle has deleted social media after facing backlash for using a transgender slur. Apex Legends player Jaeden \u2018Caprah\u2019 Valle is once again facing backlash. Earlier this year, Caprah made the headlines after making a number of derogatory and offensive comments toward XSET player Sikezz. A screenshot of a conversation over Discord showing a string of messages was made public, where then former teammates came forward, claiming that it wasn\u2019t the first time they\u2019ve had to deal with his toxicity. The situation sparked a response from several of the biggest pros in the Apex Legends community. Now, Caprah has once again come under fire, this time facing backlash for using a transgender slur \u2014 leading him to delete his social media profiles. ALGS pro deletes social media after using transgender slur Apologizing for his prior actions, Caprah claimed he likely \u201cwon\u2019t play competitive Apex ever again.\u201d However, months later, the player made a return to the competitive scene, joining Team SCS. Now, the 17-year-old has been called out for the use of a slur towards transgender people, where during a scrim session, Caprah could be heard calling his opponent a \u201ctr**ny f**k\u201d after being eliminated. Caprah was then called out by \u2018Ideas\u2018 \u2014 the transgender player the slur was allegedly targeted towards. \u201cLoses con once immediately calls me a slur reformed btw how many times has it been 3, 4?\u201d they wrote on Twitter\/X. Ideas also called out Caprah\u2019s teammates for the behavior, before noting how several top players vouched that the 17-year-old was \u201creformed\u201d before returning to pro play. \u201c@_Avexys @DeToXGOW this your new teammate? How many top players have directly vouched saying he is reformed? How you [going to] die one time and just spit it out like it\u2019s nothing. Caprah has since appeared to delete his social media platforms, with his Twitter\/X account no longer available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apex Legends pro faces backlash over transgender slur and deletes social media RespawnApex Legends pro Jaeden \u2018Caprah\u2019 Valle has deleted social media after facing backlash for using a transgender slur. Apex Legends player Jaeden \u2018Caprah\u2019 Valle is once again facing backlash. Earlier this year, Caprah made the headlines after making a number of derogatory and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}