Jake Paul's Team 10 Claims They're Launching Internal Investigation Over Transphobia Allegations

This isn't the first Team 10-related controversy, nor is it the first Paul-related one.

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The YouTube incubator agency of Jake Paul  is at the center of transphobia allegations.

This week, Jake Paul's Team 10 shared a statement in which they say an "internal investigation" will be launched "to determine exactly what unfolded, and the full context" so that "appropriate steps" can be taken to ensure learned lessons and whatnot.

wait what is there to investigate??? video proof usually is enough babe! i wasn’t welcomed with “open arms” but told you LEAVE. so grossed out & hurt that transphobia is being normalized & not talked about like its a real thing that transgender people deal with DAILY. period. pic.twitter.com/xLcRR7NPwR

— lilah ❁ (@lilahgibney) July 3, 2019

This comes in the wake of two transgender women saying they were booted from the Team 10 house by editor Blaine O'Roark and told they're not "real girls," per the Daily DotLilah Gibney and Kendall Raindrop previously shared a video on the incident, embedded below:

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In the clip, O'Roark is heard saying he's not being "transphobic" and that he was told "girls were coming." 

According to comments Gibney later gave Dot, she was allegedly asked by a Team 10 rep to remove the video and threatened with legal action.

This isn't the first Team 10-related controversy, nor is it the first Paul-related one. Jake Paul has yet to specifically address this particular incident publicly. In a tweet Monday, however, he did say that all of his controversies "have been cleared & aired out publicly & showed nothing but the fact that other parties were lying."

its funny that time after time of ppl trying 2 cancel me or the ppl around me that there is ANY weight to it... since day 1 all my "controversies" have been cleared & aired out publicly & they showed nothing but the fact that other parties were lying.. try again! ill be beachside

— Jake Paul (@jakepaul) July 2, 2019

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