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The Kristi Noem story keeps getting more incredible
The Daily Mail has obtained audio and messages of Bryon insulting his wife and worshipping a 5 foot tall, buxom dominatrix named Shy Sotomayor, while discussing his desire to transition into a woman.
He told the dominatrix he wanted to be called "Crystal." Bryon Noem: "I need to be your trans bimbo slut." Sotomayor was shocked he wanted a name so close to "Kristi."
From the Daily Mail article:
'F*** your family,' Sotomayor texted Bryon in November, later calling the whole Noem clan 'gross.'
'Love that,' he responded.
'Besides the fact of who your wife is, no one is prettier than me. No one is as powerful,' she continued.
'F***ing true. Do you want me to be a woman?' he wrote.
'Do you want to be a woman for me,' she asked.
'I think I do,' he replied.
In a recording of a phone conversation they had weeks later, Bryon can be heard telling Sotomayor that he loved her.
'So much better than your wife, aren't I?' she asked.
'You're so much better,' he said.
The Mail reports that this relationship with the dominatrix started in 2016 and first ended in 2020.
Then, Bryon Noem reached back out in October 2025, and was more needy.
Sotomayor found out who he was, and then started to shame him over what was happening with ICE in Minnesota. Daily Mail: "she ultimately felt she could no longer remain silent, even while role-playing." Now, she would tell him that his wife was a horrible person, and Bryon would change the subject or say not to believe everything she saw in the news.
Two weeks later, on January 31, he was back chatting again, this time defending his marriage. 'I do like my wife and I know you don't,' he wrote.
'To be honest. She's not [very] likable,' Sotomayor responded.
'There's no female compared to me. Especially your wife,' she later added.
'True!!!' he texted.
'And f*** your wife. Don't you think, after everything she's done, she deserves this?' she wrote in another thread that same day.
'Deserves what?' he asked.
'You actually worshipping a woman who deserves it, instead of staying loyal to her,' Sotomayor wrote in reference to the thousands of dollars he was paying her.
'I don't know what to say to that. She's a good person. You are amazing though,' he wrote.
I actually have more sympathy for Kristi Noem now. She was married to a complete weirdo, no wonder she went looking for something elsewhere.
Regardless, Kristi Noem is in fact a horrible person, and we shouldn't forget that. But we can have more sympathy by understanding how she got like this, even though this doesn't excuse sadistically seeking to harm people of color as a way of coping.