"The heads of my department branded me with a kind of scarlet letter that makes it difficult to do my job or find another one," Stapleton wrote in a note shared on Medium Friday morning. "If I stayed, I didn't just worry that there'd be more public flogging, shunning, and stress, I expected it."
"Izinhloko zomnyango wami zingibhece ngecala lokuphinga okwenza kube nzima ukwenza umsebenzi wami noma ukuwuthola," kubhala uStapleton encwadini ayidlulise ku-Medium ngoLwesihlanu ekuseni. "Ukuba ngahlala, ngangingakhathazekanga kuphela ngokuthi kuzoba nokushaywa umphakathi, nokugwenywa, kanye nengcindezi, ngangikulindele."