I Know That Voice: Meet The Trans Voice Actress from Red Dead Redemption

HuffPost: Owner and operator of GTAGaming.com, professional transgender voice actress Casey Mongillo oversees a fan base with hundreds of thousands of Grand Theft Auto enthusiasts. If you play video games, you might recognize her voice best from titles like Heroes of Newerth, The Ship, Star Trek Online, or the Red Dead Redemption series. Her website, which offers tips for players of the controversial video game Grand Theft Auto has been up and running since 2001, with a facebook page holding a little over three hundred and eighty five thousand followers. Mongillo has since maintained a plush relationship with Rockstar Games, and sings praises for the brand despite initial criticisms GTA V faced upon release from several liberal media outlets. I sat down with Mongillo, for a back and forth.

[DiaperFace]

LOL. No thanks.

[Null]

Not to sound like I'm not with the "moving forward and everyone is acceptable" movement, but, Pozzle, you're the only one who ever submits these articles here and they always get the same negative responses, so why do it? what kind of agenda are you really pushing, user? *This is how lost its account and bubbles**

[Anthotis]

It's your standard SJW vomit.

And if such a worthless article has to be published about this guy Casey, it should read voice "actor" not "actress".

Can't have a male actress.

[sorceror171]

If it's not your thing... why are you even posting? Let alone dropping bubbles? I mean, you've gone beyond disinterest to active hostility.

I mean, I've got no use for most multiplayer games, I'm mostly single-player. But I don't vote down or hate on COD and such. Why do you even *care*, let alone care that much?

[Null]

Nice strawman attempt, and you're not going to get me as there is zero hate/active hostility my comment, but instead a simple question. If you cannot answer my question, why post? A reach for bubbles? I mean, I've got no use for most online-only multiplayer games, I'm mostly single-player, but, I don't vote down or hate on things I don't like and such. Why do you even *care*, let alone care that much?

[sorceror171]

I'm not the one you asked the question of, so my answer isn't relevant. But I understand - *you* can ask about people's motivations, but no one else can ask about *yours*. I'll make a note of it, I promise. My apologies, I just didn't know the rules. :-)

[wck]

The internet hates her!

[DiaperFace]

Him (can't change those chromosomes), but yes.

@GzusKreist: Lol can't tell if you're trolling or dumb. Facts can't love nor hate. A dog is a dog, it cannot be a turtle. A man is a man, it cannot be a woman. A white is a white, it cannot be black. These are universal laws. They are objective. They are facts. PERIOD.

[GzusKreist]

HATEFACTS!!!!

[scark92]

I do agree, but if they want me to identify them with the gender I have no problem doing so, but Biologically speaking it is impossible for humans.

[Gh05t]

I love how I get called a science denier for not agreeing with the "human" caused "climate change."

Yet these people get away with defying science and the same group celebrate them. Baffles me everytime.

[wck]

Why does it so bother you to call this person what they want to be called? Marshall Mathers tells everyone to call him Eminem, we call him Eminem. Sean Combs tells us to call him P Diddy, then just Diddy, then changes it back to P Diddy again, and we all go along with it and call him whatever he wants. We constantly do this with who knows how many people. We just call them whatever they want to be called. Then someone wants to be called she instead of he and everyone loses their minds. Give me a break. It has nothing to do with "facts are facts." It's just that you hate trans people and while you'll give other people a pass, calling them whatever they want to be called, you won't call this person what they want to be called because you don't like their kind. Stop hiding and just admit your true intentions.

[DiaperFace]

LMFAO, grasp for those straws, buddy. Name changes aren't the same thing as changing species, sex, and race. If you are named Bill and want me to call you Will then that is reasonable. If you want me to call you a native American female leopard then you are insane.

[GzusKreist]

The Huffington Post is complete garbage pushing their totalitarian agenda disguised as "diversity". Site is complete rubbish.

[JohnathanACE]

It's also funny how a site claims to be about "diversity" hates straight, white men. Just another liberal rag.

[Sly-Lupin]

I know, right? Straight white men have to deal with so much bigotry every single day. Makes me sick how no one ever bothers to sympathize with our plight.

[JohnathanACE]

@Sly-Lupin

Oh so you you were being serious, what a shame. And yes they are being persecuted. SJW are worse bullies them the supposed bullies they claim to fight. Do feminists fight for equity for women raped and mistreated in the Middle East? No they would rather attack a man for his shirt. They say they want equality for men and women but do they ever bring up that men have the highest suicide rates and that most homeless people are men? No?

"Random people bitching about other random people on the Internet is not nor will it ever be persecution."

Except these people don't just complain and will actually have peoples lives ruined and get people fired or dox them because of their opinions. In Canada a man was arrested for disagreeing with a feminist.

https://www.youtube.com/wat...

So tell me again how these people are oppressed while they bully everyone around them and demand to be MORE equal than everyone else?

"You've got one hell of a complex, pal"

You have a hell of a SJW crybaby complex pal.

[JohnathanACE]

@Sly-Lupin

I can't tell if your being sarcastic or not but yes straight white men do have to deal with a lot of bigotry every single day. SJW and liberal sites/news outlets are constantly attacking us. Just recently a nut job feminist actually wrote an article saying all men should be put in concentration camps.

https://www.youtube.com/wat...

There are tons of other examples of feminists and leftists saying similar things and even more left wing sjw applauding it. So if you are not being sarcastic I urge you to do some research and learn why straights, whites and men think they're under attack (hint it's because we are).

[Sly-Lupin]

...Not sure if serious, or just very, very stupid.

Random people bitching about other random people on the Internet is not nor will it ever be persecution. You've got one hell of a complex, pal.

[Skate-AK]

Professional trans-gender voice actress? Why not just say professional voice actress? Article reeks of agenda.

[sorceror171]

But your comment is completely agenda-free, of course. :-)

[madjedi]

And I thought we were supposed to judge a person based on their merits or achievements not on their gender, race, religion ect.

Do they present Nolan North as a straight white male voice actor or do they merely say he is a voice actor.

If you want equality your going to have to give up the I am a member of a special group.

I am confused aren't we all supposed to be equal as humans or are certain groups still put on a pedastool.

Why is the left so utterly obsessed with everything but the person underneath the skin.

If you want to be treated like everyone else stop going out of your way to draw attention to what makes you different than everyone else.

Equality means you're group is as equally unimportant the next one, enjoy it.

[sorceror171]

majedi - Notice that you're doing something rather different from Skate-AK. You are objecting to the *content* of an "agenda". Skate-AK was objecting to having an "agenda" in the first place - which is self-defeating, since objecting is, itself, an agenda.

Not that there aren't answers to your objections - for example, you can *aim* for people to be treated equally, but acknowledge that people *aren't yet* treated equally. There's no contradiction there.

One way of getting to the point where people are treated equally is to point out cases where people who *aren't* treated equally nevertheless manage to do something they aren't "supposed" to be able to do. It became rather harder to claim that black people couldn't handle combat after the story of the Tuskegee Airmen came out.

You don't have to agree, of course. But at least don't pretend that nobody's ever encountered your point.

[mixelon]

Holy crap, can you seem any more like a bunch of small minded ignoramuses?

Just mentioning someone is transgendered doesn't mean .. Anything. They exist. Deal with it. Sorry if I'm insulting people, but come ON.

... Cue people saying I'm being "intolerant." :P

[Skate-AK]

We are people at the end of the day right? So why have labels like that. Wouldn't it be weird to see an article titled: Meet the Heterosexual voice actor behind 'blank.' Why do we need to know what gender the performer identifies with?

[mixelon]

It's very common to see something mentioning any *smaller* group a person belongs to. If it was a "regular" (ugh) girl it'd often refer to her as woman/girl. If it was a girl from some small racial minority that is somewhat unusual within the industry it'd be normal for it to be mentioned too.

The labels are there, and harmless along as people don't take offence to them for some reason. It does no harm to say - hey look, here's a trans person doing a productive thing. Why would anyone take offence to that?

And no, you wouldn't have "meet the heterosexual voice actor behind" because that's the *expected* state and not worth mentioning. If less than 1% of voice actors were heterosexual then yes, I would expect it to be mentioned. But trans doesn't imply a sexuality, its more an identity thing, and is more relevant to describing person as a whole than who they're attracted to. It implies a journey that's somewhat different to a straight/gay mention.

Just saying someone is trans is a long shot from peddling some "totalitarian agenda" (lol) or any agenda at all.. It's just as much of an agenda to insist that trans and minority sexualities/genders *are not mentionable* . It's a similar argument to the "racism exists because people talk about it!" .. Which is hilarious.

And yes I'm thoroughly expecting a bajillion disagrees, but some things have to be said by someone.

[Stringerbell]

No offense to you but you are expecting too much. Some users on this site can't even handle articles such as video game sales and resolution click bait nonsense without wetting the bed...

[christian hour]

Yup the comments in here made me sick, while I don't think changing your sex officially makes you that sex, if it makes someone more comfortable to be that sex in appearance and behaviour and they'd be more comfortable with me referring to them by their new sex, I've no problem with that. That's what we call Tolerance.

To all the crazy assholes above me, you don't have to agree with it or like it but you can at least tolerate it right?!

"Totalitarian Agenda"? XD That's insane, surely a totalitarian agenda would involve doing the opposite of promoting our individualities? If you want to witness totalitarian agendas at play, just look to your local government and the slow death of Personal Privacy. It's happening everywhere in the western world from the EU to the states. And it has nothing to do with acceptance and tolerance of minority groups and lifestyles.

[Anthotis]

"if it makes someone more comfortable to be that sex in appearance and behaviour and they'd be more comfortable with me referring to them by their new sex, I've no problem with that. That's what we call Tolerance."

Actually, it's what sane people call "giving a middle finger to reality".

[christian hour]

As human beings, we can't even explain what reality is. So people are free to give it the middle finger all they want.

[rainslacker]

Does their gender identity change their abilities as an performer? If not, then it's added for attention, and to me, actually takes away from spotlighting their abilities.

Think about most interviews with voice actors. Do they ever get much heat? Now look at this article. It get's heat.

I wouldn't say this article is agenda based...although it may be in content...but the author certainly used the gender association as a means to drive hits. It's exploitation to drive hits, and that's more offensive to me than whether this person identifies themselves as a male or female. If a person uses their gender identity to improve their own career, then it's just as offensive...same way as a pretty woman may get ahead due to their looks despite not being qualified.

[mixelon]

But the interview wasn't just to showcase/ask about her abilities. The LGBT angle was part of the interview. The article wasn't aimed at n4g, and it wasn't just aimed at gamers who only care about games.

There are a bunch of people who care about things like gender identity and social stuff. Publishing an article mentioning it isn't exactly hit baiting.

[rainslacker]

This person is a voice actor. They are also active in a community. Both those aspects are part of their personal interests and their profession. Neither of those things, which makes this person an interest to others, has anything to do with their gender identity.

The title makes it an aspect of this person as important as the things that might draw someone to getting to know this person(their voice work). If this interview is about getting to know the person behind the voice, then that's fine, but the title brings out an aspect which demeans those things in favor of their sexual identity. Basically is this article about getting to know a trans-gendered person, or is it about getting to know a voice actor/community manager?

I don't disagree that people may be interested in those aspects of this person, and I have nothing against addressing that in a get to know interview if the person wants to address it, but to make it a focus takes away from what I believe is important.

I don't know if this person is using their gender identity to promote their career. But I don't like it when articles are exploitative in such a manner to drive their own ad revenue, even if the person is complicit in the practice and doesn't care. It detracts from an actual issue that should be addressed in a more mature manner. If this article was about trans-gendered people doing good things..like say in the vein of "Most successful black men"...then that's one thing, but that's not the case here.

I don't know who this article is aimed at. Just because it's on huffington post doesn't matter. The title has two focuses, a voice actor in red dead redemption and this person being trans-gendered. To me, their accomplishments should be a bigger focus than their gender identity. Their accomplishments shouldn't be based on them having them AND being trans-gendered.

[MasterCornholio]

Why is sexual orientation important?

What matters the most is how they do their job in this case.

Anyways I'm glad that she has a good career and I appreciate the interview.

[mixelon]

I don't mean this with any disrespect, but trans isn't a sexual orientation. If you start off male/female and end up female/male you could easily be attracted to either sex.

This is pretty different to saying "an interview with the gay voice actor" - because it implies a totally different story and set of obstacles to the person in question, and is actually potentially very relevant to the interview itself. Logistically, turning from one gender to another in the middle of any career would be an interesting hurdle.

[MasterCornholio]

I'm sorry for getting confused.

:(

Where I come from being a transexual is the same thing (to people there) as being a homosexual.

I find the whole thing really confusing.

[donwel]

Huffpost.... no thanks, I'd rather wipe my arse with barbed wire.

[abcde-12345]

The title could've easily just said 'Interview With Red Dead Redemption Voice Actress.'

I mean, I'm not trying to sound rude, but who cares about the sexual orientation of a voice actor? They could have talking dogs doing those voices and it wouldn't make a difference in the end.

Talking dogs would be infinitely cooler, though.

[wck]

Gender identity isn't sexual orientation. Gender identity is who you are, sexual orientation is who you love.

[scark92]

You PC Brah?!?

Agenda ridden pieces.. I avoid them like the plague.

[RedTriangle53]

So sick of people assuming I'm male. Like what the fuck you calling me "brah" for, for all you know I'm a beautiful independent woman! I'm also totally offended that you didn't include a disclaimer that you may or may not be addressing people of multiple ethnicities in order not to be semantically exclusive to white privileged men.

Shape up, times are changing you know!

Jokes aside, I agree. Nothing against people with dysmorphia, but let's call it what it is. It's not intolerant to not indulge in everybody else's delusions, and being different does not make you a hero.

If anything, the article is bigoted since it sensationalizes a minority. If the article was about "look at this BLACK MAN who managed to get a full time job!" there'd be no question about it.

[The7Reaper]

Its 2015 you do something heroic no one cares you get your nuts chopped off and say you're a woman now front page news

[KurtRussell]

Mentally sick people that are encouraged by the media telling them it's normal instead of seeking help. First homos, now this. What's next, pedophiles? Zoophiles? Necrophiles?

[TRASHBOAT___]

next they will ban titties

[mixelon]

The real Kurt Russell does not agree with your outdated and scientifically dubious world view.

[christian hour]

"First homos, now this."

I hope you're trolling KurtRussell. If not, change your name, you bring shame to my hero Kurt Russell.

[MasterCornholio]

"Whats next, pedophiles? Zoophiles? Necrophiles?"

So your claiming that people who rape animals, children and corpses are the same thing has people who believe that they are the opposite sex or are attracted to people of the same sex?

I disagree with your opinion. Not only that but it's an insult for people with a different sexual orientation or transgender.

They are not the ones who need psychiatric help its people who treat them like animals that do.

[DarkBlood]

you cant change most normal people, we deaf and hard of hearing get shit from them too simply because we are different one even to go as far as thinking i am dumb for it.

but hey just ignore those people they just cant handle change that well.

[JsonHenry]

I wonder if I said I identified as Batman if I should be celebrated for dressing up as Batman every day? I mean, that is what this GUY is doing, right? Dressing up as something he can never physically be- a girl.

What is the difference?

ALSO PEOPLE- never forget that part of Gamer-gate was the U.S. government trying to push an agenda through the game publishers where they were told to include more gay, female, and trans-gender people and propaganda on the gaming community. Stay strong guys. Gamers are the ONLY group in America that bucked the social engineering attempt. The entirety of the rest of the country has fallen for it. Even the NFL!! You are the last hope for common sense.

[Stringerbell]

Here I am thinking the push was from he Lizard Elite who live under Mount Everest. Thanks for clearing this up.

[christian hour]

Discovered your n4g blogs last night and read em all, now you're killing me again with these comments XD

[rainslacker]

It's obviously crab people emasculating the male race so they can one day take over.

All this Lizard Elite talk is just the US government having a massive cover up so they can control the people.

My God man. Open your eyes!!!

[mixelon]

Wow. Just wow. The us government.. Social engineering.

Next you'll be telling us the moon is a hologram? Chemtrails are real! Cats and dogs living together!

You are definitely not the last hope for common sense.

[JsonHenry]

http://www.washingtonsblog....

[mixelon]

That's a huge jump from what the article is claiming to what you're claiming. You just mashed two concepts together and treat it like it makes sense.

The US govt isn't hoisting a social change agenda on gamers via games, and nowhere in that article, or anywhere else, is that even remotely suggested. Also, some of the claims they make in the article are downright ridiculous. No. It is not government interference which makes tear gas work in Scribblenauts but diplomats not work. Lol.

Crazy conspiracists spoil it for the sane ones.

[TRASHBOAT___]

Thats a dude ?

[JohnathanACE]

Yep, can't you tell by the chin and Adam's apple?

[cheapness1]

It really shouldn't be a big deal that she's trans and it's a shame that detracts from the actual content of the article...not like she supports Tottenham or something!

[just-joe]

I don't know what this article trying to get across. Trans are different but not so different so... how am i supposed to react, give them a espy?

[urwifeminder]

Good for her the mind is a weird bit of kit some people still go on about gods in 2015 its their prerogative , who am I to judge just another person doing a job as far as I am concerned. As a 70s kid I remember people being awful and staring at people with disabilities which thankfully now has changed. Hopefully this sort of thing wont have to mentioned in the future or be a novelty just accepted.

[Mrveryodd]

Serious bigget scum in here.

[OverlordValvatorez]

seriously... Whats the deal with ladyboys lately in the gaming industry? I'm not into this stuff. I respect the choice they made but i didnt ask to know them and never asked to have some tranny character in my games (ubisoft, im looking at you)