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The Gender Care Consumer Advocacy Network (GCCAN) was an “ex-transgender” organization that sought to limit trans healthcare options.

“Ex-trans” activists are similar to “ex-gay” activists. Many claim they were cured via “desistance” or “detransition.“

Background

Lee Leveille was one of the founding members and original Vice President. Leveille describes GCCAN’s founding

In August 2019, a detransitioned family therapist named Carey Callahan put out an organizing call to build bridges between trans and detrans people who had experienced medical trauma. The two of us teamed up with Grace Lidinsky-Smith and Corinna Cohn, where we worked to found an advocacy organization aimed at broadening the discussion on effective transgender-related health care. We also sought to do so without any political allegiance, purposefully maintaining distance from individuals or organizations that could weaponize the group’s message for their own gain. It was, by and large, a patient rights organization meant to be by the people for the people. That December, the group went live under the name Gender Care Consumer Advocacy Network, or GCCAN.

Leveille resigned in March 2020 due to “the direction I saw the group going in and what damage it could do to people they claimed to represent.”

Members of the group have gone on to testify in support of banning trans healthcare for young people.

In 2024 the site went offline.

Leadership

References

Leveille, Lee (May 19, 2022). My Resignation Letter to Gender Care Consumer Advocacy Network (GCCAN). Medium https://thatweirdolee.medium.com/my-resignation-letter-to-gender-care-consumer-advocacy-network-gccan-59596eb53f96

Leveille, Lee (January 18, 2021). I’m A Trans Person That Helped Found a “Detransition Advocacy” Organization. Medium https://thatweirdolee.medium.com/im-a-trans-person-that-helped-found-a-detransition-advocacy-organization-57d18572be32

Ring, Trudy (May 4, 2021). 60 Minutes Story Focuses on Transition Regret, Gets Slammed. The Advocate https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2021/5/24/60-minutes-story-focuses-transition-regret-gets-slammed

Lidinsky-Smith, Grace (June 25, 2021). There’s No Standard for Care When it Comes to Trans Medicine | Opinion Newsweek https://www.newsweek.com/theres-no-standard-care-when-it-comes-trans-medicine-opinion-1603450

Resources

Gender Care Consumer Advocacy Network (gccan.org) [archive]

  • Who We Are [archive]
  • gccan.org/who-we-are

X/Twitter (x.com)

Prisha Mosley is an American ex-transgender activist. Mosley gets money and attention by making it more difficult for others to get trans healthcare.

Background

Abigail Mosley was born February 14, 1998. Mosley’s parents are Christine Ann Bourgeois-Mosley (born 1968) and Mark Stephen Mosley (born 1962).

Mosley claims to have had “rapid onset gender dysphoria” at 12. Mosley was sexually assaulted at age 14 or 15 (versions differ).

According to Kelsey Bolar at Epoch Times:

Mosley’s parents were both against her “transitioning” as a minor. But because her mother suffered from alcoholism and her own history of mental illness, Mosley “threw away” much of what her mother said. Her father wasn’t sure what to do. Mosley describes him as having a “prove it attitude.” He told Mosley to make her own appointments and see what the professionals recommended.

Mosley then took numerous steps without parental assistance. Mosley socially transitioned in 2013, then over the next two years convinced each parent to consent to medical transition steps. Mosley began hormones at 17, in 2015.

Mosley began using the name Charlie Samael Mosley. As an adult, Mosley chose to get top surgery, in 2016. In 2017, Mosley was allegedly “lured to Florida” by trans peers and got engaged to a trans person, but they later broke up.

Mosley moved to Michigan to attend Ferris State University.

Mosley stopped taking hormones in 2022 and began fundraising for breast reconstruction, but ended up using the money for other things. According to Bolar:

After detransitioning in Florida and leaving an unhealthy relationship she was in with another individual who identified as transgender, Mosley moved to Big Rapids, Michigan, to pursue a job at a local dispensary. It was supposed to be a relaxed environment, but she said she got fired for crying every day. Mosley has since started school but can only take courses online because she doesn’t feel comfortable being seen.

Anti-transgender activism

On October 2, 2022, Mosley posted a YouTube video originally titled “I ruined my life.” In it Mosley claims that “some people in the trans community, and the transmedicalists, and the doctors really really target the most vulnerable of us.”

In that vulnerable state Mosley was then targeted and groomed by conservative and fascist activists. They showered Mosley with money and attention. Because regret is so rare, Mosley got flown around the country to testify against healthcare for trans and gender diverse minors in states where Mosley does not live:

  • Louisiana HB463
  • Ohio SB68
  • Texas HB 1686
  • South Carolina
  • Texas SB14
  • Indiana SB480
  • Florida Board of Medicine

Mosley is heavily invested in metaphors of disease and impairment, identifying as disabled and diseased (mentally ill). This is a kind of attention-seeking behavior.

Mosley’s alleged diseases and health problems include:

  • anorexia (cured)
  • transgender (cured)
  • depression
  • anxiety
  • post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
  • obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)
  • borderline personality disorder (BPD)
  • “psychosis”
  • “delusions”
  • “permanent damage to my back and ribs”
  • “severe vaginal atrophy”
  • “painful genitals so severe I can no longer use tampons”
  • “never had a normal period”
  • “chronic pain”
  • “I live in a painful body that no longer belongs to me”
  • muscle and fat redistribution left me with “constant burning pain”
  • “hurts to hold myself up”
  • “clumsiness”
  • “my chest is numb except for the occasional zapping pain”
  • “joint pain for the rest of my life”
  • “my back and joints ache constantly”
  • “lost the ability to sing”
  • “painful to speak for long periods”
  • “most likely infertile”
  • “large painful shoulders”
  • “I’m no longer able to regulate my own hormones”
  • “pain tolerance is lower”
  • “overgrown heart”
  • “increased risk for heart attack and stroke”
  • “doctors have abandoned me”
  • “doctors blackmailed my parents”
  • “missing pieces of my nipples”
  • need “at least three more traumatizing surgeries”
  • “I will never be able to feed my children”

Mosley does not seem to take much personal responsibility for these life choices, especially those made as an adult. Until there is some personal responsibility taken, Mosley is doomed to remain a miserable victim cultist.

Jordan Campbell, Ron Miller, Josh Payne, and Daniel Sepulveda are the founders of Campbell Miller Payne, PLLC (CMP), a firm focused on suing providers of trans health services. They and Envisage Law in Raleigh are representing Mosley in litigation against the people who tried to help Mosley, and CMP also represents ex-trans litigant Soren Aldaco in Texas.

On May 20, 2025, Mosley was lead signatory on a letter from Independent Women’s Forum to Congress supporting the “Protect Children’s Innocence Act” introduced by Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene. It was also signed by Annika Bigeleisen, “Chloe Cole,” Emelie Schmidt, LaRell Herbert, Pear Joseph, and Simon B. Amaya Price.

References

Independent Women’s Forum and 7 ex-trans activists (May 20, 2025). Independent Women Supports The Protect Children’s Innocence Act. https://greene.house.gov/uploadedfiles/independent-women.pdf

Astor, Maggie (May 16, 2023) How a Few Stories of Regret Fuel the Push to Restrict Gender Transition Care. New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/16/us/politics/transgender-care-detransitioners.html

Schlott, Rikki (March 15, 2023). ‘Afraid of a life I hadn’t tasted’: Why trans male is back to being a woman. New York Post https://nypost.com/2023/03/15/why-teen-girl-who-became-a-trans-man-is-now-a-woman-again/

Bolar, Kelsey (November 30, 2022). Mentally Ill Teen Betrayed by Health Professionals Who Recommended Testosterone and ‘Top Surgery.’ Epoch Times https://www.theepochtimes.com/mentally-ill-teen-betrayed-by-health-professionals-who-recommended-testosterone-and-top-surgery_4895309.html https://www.iwf.org/identity-crisis-prisha/

Resources

Trans Data Library (transdatalibrary.org)

GoFundMe (gofundme.com)

X/Twitter (x.com)

GiveSendGo (givesendgo.com)

YouTube (youtube.com)

TikTok (tiktok.com)

NGL (ngl.link)

David Arthur Kendall is an American sex offender and activist in the ex-transgender movement. Kendall gets money and attention by making it more difficult to get trans healthcare. Using the name “David Arthur,” Kendall is featured in the 2023 anti-trans film Affirmation Generation by Laura VanZee-Taylor and Penka Kouneva.

Background

David Arthur Kendall was born October 16, 1972. Kendall has alleged being sexually abused from around the age of 6 and contracting HIV/AIDS in 1986 at age 14.

After making a gender transition, this person used the name Paige Giannetto.

In 2002, Kendall was sentenced to two years and four months in Florida prison for violating Florida Statute 800.04 on May 1, 1995: “Lewdly fondle or assault, commit or simulate sexual acts on or in presence of a child under 16 in a lewd, lascivious or indecent manner.”

In 2004, Kendall was sentenced to two years in prison for failing to meet Florida’s mandatory community notification and registration requirements for sex offenders, among other crimes:

I was arrested on a probation violation for drugs, prostitution and robbing a gas station. I was also charged with failing to register (comply) at the time as well. During the sting operation it was discovered that my “boyfriend”, who was caught with me in our hotel room, was 15 years old. This did not look good for me as a convicted sex offender and I was given the option of another charge or “cash in” my probation for state prison time, I chose the latter. I chose to have no probation in place of prison time.

Kendall was released in 2006 and stopped identifying as Paige in 2012. Kendall has described “deliverance from a very dark life,” including 

  • prostitution
  • sex-trafficking
  • gender confusion/transgenderism (dysphoria)
  • molestation
  • rape
  • drugs
  • alcohol
  • gambling
  • “full blown AIDS”
  • no immune system
  • infections in his brain & blood
  • severe progressive Osteoporosis
  • diabetes
  • etc.

After “the doctors sent him home to die,” Kendall experienced a “moment of grace.” Kendall has described being cured of many problems:

  • gender confusion
  • addictions
  • Chronic Major Depression
  • bipolar
  • anxiety
  • PTSD 
  • lust-filled activity
  • the weight of sin
  • no longer used a walker
  • diabetes was gone
  • HIV/AIDS virus was no longer detectable
  • immune system returned
  • “rescued from the cesspools of gender dysphoria, the lgbTQia TransQueer Gender Cult”

Supreme Court brief

In 2019, Kendall participated in an amicus curiae brief in support of a funeral home that had fired a transgender employee. The brief was submitted by:

  • Public Advocate of the United States
  • Conservative Legal Defense and Education Fund
  • Poll Watchers
  • I Belong Amen Ministries
  • David Arthur
  • Policy Analysis Center
  • Eagle Forum Foundation
  • Pastor Chuck Baldwin
  • Restoring Liberty Action Committee
  • Center for Morality

Relevant passages from Kendall:

I Belong Amen Ministries is a ministry headed by David Arthur, a former homosexual and former transgender person.

The good news is that transgender status is not immutable, and the mind’s perspective about the body can, and often does, change over time. Consider the situation of David Arthur, one of the amici curiae filing this brief. David Arthur was sexually abused from around the age of five. He was involved in homosexual behavior, and then worked as a transgender prostitute. He contracted HIV/AIDS at age 14, and by age 37 he was on his deathbed. That was in 2009. With his body weakening, in a hospital bed that was placed in his bedroom at home, David Arthur hit rock bottom and turned to God, who rescued him from the captivity of his addictions. Today, he is healthy and strong, and living proof that people are not immutably transgendered or homosexual. On his website,8 David summarized the matter as follows:

Using myself as an illustration, as a former homosexual, and former transgender person, with decades of experience in that world, I can say without a shadow of a doubt that homosexuality (including transgenderism) is absolutely mutable and curable!

God has created each one of us in a heterosexual design which cannot be altered. We are born male or female. Our DNA makes us male or female and no surgery in the world can change our DNA. Changing our sex/gender is not possible. Indeed, homosexuality is not truly a sexual orientation at all, but just one type of sin, and a type of bondage. Those who tell us that homosexuality is just one of many sexual orientations seek to keep us in bondage, whether they know it or not.

Once we embrace our heterosexual design, we can find the freedom from the bondage of homosexuality. Being set free from homosexuality (including transgenderism) is just as desirable, just as real, and just as common, as a drug addict being set free from the bondage and hold of drugs. Our “true self” is exactly who we were created to be from conception….

Public Advocate of the United States (2019)

Maine First Project

In 2022, Shawn McBreairty of the far-right Maine First Project teamed up with Kendall to attack trans people.

In April, McBreairty’s podcast featured David Arthur Kendall, who describes himself as a former transgender woman and former prostitute. “Changing sex is not an option,” his website says. He describes being transgender as a type of “confusion” or “mental disorder”—a compelling story for transphobic groups like Maine First Project.

McBreairty subsequently returned the favor by appearing on Kendall’s podcast.

Goforth (2022)

Maine School Administrative District #1

In 2022, Kendall showed up at a local school board meeting to “gender identity movement is dangerous.”

Kendall said the LBGTQ agenda is dangerous because it can force sexual identity on children and lead to gender confusion. 

Kendall described himself as being a transgender woman for years, and said he was seduced into the LGBTQ movement. He identifies as a gay man and said he is glad he wasn’t placed on puberty blockers that would have affected his growth and development. He alluded to past behaviors and said he has since reformed his life. 

“Please let these children know it’s OK to be gay,” Kendall said. “They don’t have to run into the arms of a rainbow movement that is bound to destroy them, body and soul.”

Brewer (2022)

No Way Back

Kendall is featured in the 2023 anti-trans film Affirmation Generation by Laura VanZee-Taylor and Penka Kouneva.

Below are Kendall’s comments throughout the film before they were deleted:

As a child, what I didn’t know, I didn’t call it internalized homophobia because I didn’t know the term for it, but that’s when I started noticing the stigma over homosexuality. I recognized the guilting, the shaming of same-sex attraction within society and culture alone.

Because of the estrogen, I have severe bone loss. First, it was osteopenia then it turned into osteoporosis, and the bone loss was severe, so severe I was hunched over, couldn’t stand up straight, walking with a walker.

Even though I didn’t want it, I never wanted the full surgery, I was contemplating on going to Thailand to get the complete sexual reassignment surgery, which is what they called it then. Now it’s called gender affirming surgery. So first I was going to New York to get castrated and to get more work, more silicone, put in my body. I was on Coney Island with two trannies that had already had complete sexual reassignment surgery. And we are laughing and joking and having a good old time, and then they both looked at me, and one of them said, “Don’t do it.” And I said, “Don’t do what?” And he said, “All of my life I thought that if I could just become a woman, I would find peace and joy and happiness.” And he said, “And now that I am legally and medically a woman, I am more miserable now than I was my entire life.” He said, “I think about taking my life every day.”  And the other one said “I think about taking my life several times a day every day.” 

Everyone that knew me, they would’ve argued with anybody that “Paige” was content and secure and happy, and just being the person she was meant to be. And none of them had a clue that I was depressed, that I was bitter, that I hated myself, that I attempted to take my life quite a few times. Even the young queens that looked up to me, that would come and stay at my apartment, they didn’t know that. And then come to now, when I think back and I think, “Wow, how many of them felt the same way?” I recognize that I was just living a lie. I became the lie. I was the lie. 

It’s lonely enough being a detransitioner, and not having the support of a group of friends that you can go out and have fun with, right? Like when you were in that movement.

There’s no reasoning behind most of what is spewed by trans activists. No reasoning. And I know this because I was one, right? As a pawn for the movement, I was one. Not only was I a victim, I victimized young boys. I helped young boys into the movement. I watched boys be seduced into the movement and then passed around and profited off of. And then, when they were no more good, tossed out in the garbage, and then they became the groomers. And so I know that being that is just emotionally driven. It’s all about thoughts and feelings, thoughts and feelings. There is no real reality in that world. 

I think that one of my biggest goals is to make young people understand that you can just be gay, and it’s OK.

References

Supreme Court of the United States (August 23, 2019). Amicus Curiae in R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes Inc. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/18/18-107/229226/20220630125559710_Harris%20Funeral%20amicus%20brief%20on%20the%20merits.pdf

Brewer, Paula (May 20, 2022). School board allows registered sex offender to speak at meeting. The County https://thecounty.me/2022/05/20/news/education/school-board-allows-registered-sex-offender-to-speak-at-meeting/

Goforth, Claire (May 31, 2022). Far-right organization in Maine obsessed with ‘grooming’ in schools accidentally platformed a convicted sex offender. Daily Dot https://www.dailydot.com/debug/maine-first-project-platformed-sex-offender-schools/

Christine Niles (May 20, 2023). Ex-Trans Prostitute Exposes LGBT ‘Cult.’ Forward Boldly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2BuMg0zzPY

Resources

Florida Sex Offender Registry (offender.fdle.state.fl.us)

Maine Sex Offender Registry (sor.informe.org)

Trans Data Library (transdatalibrary.org)

I Belong Amen Ministries (ibelongamen.com)

LinkedIn (linkedin.com)

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Substack (substack.com)

“Chloe Cole” is the stage name of Chloe Brockman, an American ex-transgender activist. Similar to the ex-gay movement, ex-trans activists get money and attention by making it harder for others to get trans healthcare. Many claim to have been cured of being trans via “desistance” or “detransition.”

Background

Chloe Elise Brockman was born July 27, 2004.

Brockman’s mother is Jocelyn V. (Torrecampo) Brockman (born 1968), a perioperative nurse who has worked for Kaiser Permanente. Jocelyn Brockman married Jeffrey Allen “Jeff” Brockman (born 1971), an IT entrepreneur who was raised in a Mormon household.

Chloe Brockman has four adult siblings: Jacob, Chelsea, Maddie, and Calvin. They are a blended family. Chloe Brockman grew up in Manteca, California. As a child, Brockman had two cleft palate repair surgeries.

Brockman had an “emotionally troubled” childhood that included several assessments and diagnoses:

  • September 12, 2012 (age 8): “disruptive behavior disorder”
  • November 26, 2013 (age 9): “encounter for school problem”
  • October 9, 2015 (age 11): “attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder” (ADHD)

According to self-reports, Brockman came out as trans after exhibiting gender-diverse behavior starting about age 9, around the time puberty started. Brockman created an Instagram account at 11. In May 2017, at age 12, Brockman wrote a letter to both parents, asking to be referred to as a boy and by the names Ky or Chi.

On November 30, 2017, Brockman had a consultation with an endocrinologist who advised against beginning hormone therapy. The family sought a second opinion on Brockman’s insistence and gave legal consent for medical transition.

In early 2018, at age 13, Brockman began a medical transition under the care of endocrinologist Lisa Taylor, with puberty blockers followed by testosterone injections starting a month later.

At age 14, Brockman’s chest was groped at school by a bully. This traumatic event led to daily use of a chest binder. Brockman asked Taylor for a referral to plastic surgeon Hop Le. Brockman then had a psychological evaluation with Susanne Watson, who recommended honoring Brockman’s request for top surgery.

Amid the pressure of trying to help their troubled child, Brockman’s parents filed for divorce in 2019.

Brockman began using the given name Leo and was encouraged to attend classes with a family peer group of other transmasculine minors. Brockman’s surgery occurred following parental consent. On June 3, 2020, Brockman underwent top surgery a month before turning 16. During COVID quarantine in the summer of 2020, Brockman started to have “regrets” before discontinuing hormones in May 2021. According to the 2023 lawsuit, Brockman “became intensely suicidal for the first time and prone to emotional outbursts.” Elsewhere in the lawsuit, they claim Brockman was exhibiting “passive suicidal ideation” around the time Jeff and Jocelyn filed for divorce (which it appears they never finalized).

Brockman failed out of high school as a senior and had to get a California High School Proficiency Exam Certificate instead. As failure, isolation, and rejection took their toll, Brockman was radicalized by conservative edgelord online culture. Anti-transgender activism soon followed. This brought Brockman to the attention of Harmeet Dhillon and other conservative or fascist activists, who began showering Brockman with money and attention.

2022

February: Creates Twitter account ChoooCole

April: Creates Twitter account puddingpandan

April 19: Profiled by Suzy Weiss (sister of Bari Weiss)

April 19: Do No Harm Foundation’s Stanley Goldfarb announces launch; later funds some of Brockman’s activism

May: Testifies against gender-affirming care in Ohio

June 28: Testifies against gender-affirming care in California (SB107)

July: Turns 18

July: Testifies against Medicaid coverage for trans healthcare in Florida

July 13: Registers imperfectlyme.org

July 15: Creates GoFundMe

July 24: Conservative IT entrepreneur Steven Corpus “Steve” Beddoe registers the corporation Trenderz LLC in California as part of the domain and GoFundMe marketing campaign. “Trender” is a slur in toxic online communities to describe people who allegedly make a gender transition because it’s trendy.

September: Supports “Protect Children’s Innocence Act” by Marjorie Taylor Greene

September: Testifies against California becoming a sanctuary state for children seeking gender-affirming care

September 28: Interview with David Freiheit of Viva Frei

October 9: Appears on a Twitch stream with other conservative trans media figures Blaire White, Buck Angel, “Shape Shifter,” Fabian Liberty, “TullipR,” and “Taftaj”

October 21: Creates Instagram account chooocole

October: Speaks at “Rally to End Child Mutilation” in Tennessee

October 8: starts a YouTube channel and interviews other ex-trans activists, including Katie Anderson, Layla Jane, Jade Martin, Maia Poet, and Luke Healy. Cole also posts speeches from rallies, testimony against gender affirming care for minors, and attacking trans-supportive public figures like John Oliver and Neil Degrasse Tyson.

October 27: Preaches at Godspeak Cavalry Chapel

November 9: Announces notice of intent to sue

November 11: Interview with Tucker Carlson

November 17: Interview with Tulsi Gabbard

December 12: Interview with Rita Panahi of Sky News Australia

December 22: Interview with Marissa Streit of PragerU

December 22: Interview with Glenn Beck

2023

January 2: Interview with Jordan Peterson

January 6: Interview with Drea Humphrey of Rebel News

January 12: Profile on The Daily Signal

January 12: Interview with Kevin Roberts for The Heritage Foundation

January 24: Testifies in support of Utah ban on gender-affirming care for minors (House Bill 132)

January: Speaks at “Teens Against Gender Mutilation Rally” in Tennessee

January: Speaks at Parents on Patrol panel “Stolen Innocence: A Panel on the Insidious Ideology Infecting Your Children’s Education”

January 31: Testified in support of Tennessee House Bill and Senate Bill 1 banning gender affirming care for minors

February 6: Interview with Megyn Kelly

February 6: Profile on Independent Women’s Forum

February: Supports Idaho ban on gender-affirming care for minors (House Bill 71,); her appearance was financed by conservative Idaho Freedom Foundation

February: Testifies in favor of Kansas ban on gender-affirming care for minors (Senate Bill 233)

February 17: Testifies in favor of South Dakota HB 1080 banning gender-affirming care for minors

February 21: addressed the Florida House Health & Human Services Committee

March 3: Appears on a panel at Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC)

March 12: Appears with six ex-trans activists in Sacramento for “Detransition Awareness Day”

March 28: Interview with Charlie Kirk and Jack Posobiec

April 17: Appears at Dartmouth Republicans event in New Hampshire

April 20: Testifies in favor of New Hampshire Parental Rights Bill

May 2: Testifies in favor of Louisiana ban on gender-affirming care for minors (House Bill 463)

April 19: Testifies in favor of New Hampshire Bill SB272 banning gender-affirming care for minors

May 26: Testifies in favor of House Bill 454 banning gender-affirming care for minors

2023 lawsuit

On February 22, 2023 conservative lawyers filed suit in California, alleging Brockman was a victim of medical negligence.

Plaintiff

  • Chloe E. Brockman a/k/a Chloe Cole

Defendants

  • Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, Inc.
  • Permanente Medical Group, Inc.
    • Lisa Kristine Taylor, MD, a pediatric endocrinologist
    • Hop Nguyen Le, MD, a plastic surgeon
    • Susanne E. Watson, PhD, a clinical psychologist
  • Does 1 through 50

Brockman’s lawyers

  • Charles S. LiMandri
  • Paul M. Jonna
  • Robert E. Weisenburger
  • Harmeet K. Dhillon
  • John-Paul S. Deol
  • Jesse D. Franklin-Murdock
  • Mark E. Trammell

The lawyers claim Brockman has had these conditions:

  • pornography addiction
  • disruptive behavior disorder (diagnosed September 12, 2012)
  • encounter for school problem (diagnosed November 26, 2013)
  • ADHD (diagnosed October 9, 2015)
  • general anxiety
  • social anxiety
  • speech difficulties
  • depression
  • pubertal struggles associated with significantly increased negative emotions
  • body dysmorphia and serious self-image concerns
  • symptoms of an eating disorder
  • learning disabilities
  • autism spectrum symptoms
  • a cleft palate for which surgery had been performed
  • concerns about being sexually abused or raped, that eventually materialized into a sexual assault
  • exposure to only negative aspects about being female, without any discussion of the positive aspects of being female, including menstrual cycles, pregnancy, childbirth, male domination, and similar distorting ideas
  • difficulty at school
  • trouble with social interaction and learning
  • social troubles
  • severe distress
  • ongoing confusion regarding her gender
  • suicidal ideation

They put forth the “social contagion” model that claims Brockman was misled by LGBT activist groups and transgender social media influencers.

They also make the common ex-trans claim: “The fact that Plaintiff detransitioned after the so-called treatment establishes res ipsa loquitor that Plaintiff was not transgender.”

On May 20, 2025, Brockman was a signatory on a letter from Independent Women’s Forum to Congress supporting the “Protect Children’s Innocence Act” introduced by Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene. It was also signed by Prisha Mosley, Emelie Schmidt, LaRell Herbert, Pear Joseph, Annika Bigeleisen, and Simon B. Amaya Price.

References

Independent Women’s Forum and 7 ex-trans activists (May 20, 2025). Independent Women Supports The Protect Children’s Innocence Act. https://greene.house.gov/uploadedfiles/independent-women.pdf

Astor, Maggie (May 16, 2023) How a Few Stories of Regret Fuel the Push to Restrict Gender Transition Care. New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/16/us/politics/transgender-care-detransitioners.html

Abou-Diwan, Antoine (February 28, 2023). Stockton woman one of few to sue over transgender surgery. California Lawyer https://www.dailyjournal.com/articles/371380-stockton-woman-one-of-few-to-sue-over-transgender-surgery

Suratos, Pete (February 23, 2023). Kaiser Permanente sued over hormone therapy. NBC Bay Area https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/kaiser-permanente-sued-over-hormone-therapy/3164935/

Allday, Erin (February 23, 2023). Conservative group sues Kaiser Permanente over transgender care. San Francisco Chronicle.  https://www.sfchronicle.com/health/article/anti-trans-lawsuit-17801484.php

Schemmel, Alec (February 7, 2023). ‘Hateful, dangerous’: Event warning about consequences of gender transitions dropped. KATV.  https://katv.com/news/nation-world/hateful-dangerous-event-warning-about-consequences-of-gender-transitions-dropped-eventbrite-trans-transgender-gender-identity-transgenderism-parents-on-patrol

Holmes, Brian; Baertlein, Andrew (February 2, 2023). Idaho bill to ban gender affirming care for minors is met with opposing perspectives. KTVB7. https://www.ktvb.com/article/news/politics/local-idaho-bill-to-ban-gender-affirming-care-for-minors-is-met-with-opposing-perspectives/277-217363de-44ba-4e9e-9fec-69c5c66a9936

Clark, Quinn (January 27, 2023). Panel of right-wing activists claim schools are ‘sexually grooming’ children by teaching gender identity, event at Pewaukee hotel draws protests. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. https://www.jsonline.com/story/communities/lake-country/2023/01/27/parents-on-patrol-event-at-ingleside-hotel-in-pewaukee-draws-protest/69845712007/

McKellar, Katie (January 24, 2023). Utah lawmakers reject hardline ban on transgender treatments for kids. Deseret News. https://www.deseret.com/utah/2023/1/24/23568290/transgender-surgeries-hormone-therapy-utah-legislature-lgbtq-law

Davis, Chris; West, Emily (January 31, 2023). Bill restricting gender-affirming care among minors nudged forward in Tennessee legislature. News Channel 5. 

Mipro, Rachel (January 13, 2023). New bill would ban gender-affirming medication and surgery for Kansans under the age of 21. Kansas Reflector. https://www.newschannel5.com/news/bill-restricting-gender-affirming-care-among-minors-nudged-forward-in-tennessee-legislature

Ashley, Asia Ashley (September 28, 2022). Rep. Taylor Greene promotes bill to nationally ban services that alter children’s gender. The Cullman Times. https://www.cullmantimes.com/news/rep-taylor-greene-promotes-bill-to-nationally-ban-services-that-alter-childrens-gender/article_8e523a90-3de1-11ed-bf3b-c7a04869120b.html

Ennis, Dawn (September 11, 2022). California ex-trans teen is national right-wing media’s darling. Los Angeles Blade. https://www.losangelesblade.com/2022/09/11/california-ex-trans-teen-is-national-right-wing-medias-darling/

 Yurcaba, Jo (October 29, 2022). Florida medical board votes to ban gender-affirming care for transgender minors. NBC News. 

Villarreal, Daniel (October 28, 2022). GOP senator speaks at transphobic rally where people threatened to kill doctors. LGBTQ Nation. https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/10/gop-senator-speaks-transphobic-rally-people-threatened-kill-doctors/

Gingerich, Mia (October 27, 2022). Death threats, Proud Boys, and homophobic bigots: Matt Walsh’s anti-trans rally drew a crowd of extremists. Media Matters for America. https://www.mediamatters.org/matt-walsh/death-threats-proud-boys-and-homophobic-bigots-matt-walshs-anti-trans-rally-drew-crowd

Herner, Hannah (October 21, 2022). Anti-Trans rally led by Matt Walsh brings right-wing media stars to Nashville. Nashville Scene.  https://www.nashvillescene.com/news/pithinthewind/anti-trans-rally-led-by-matt-walsh-brings-right-wing-media-stars-to-nashville/article_62c08340-5160-11ed-81bb-53478d4387aa.html

Kam, Dara (July 9, 2022). Florida’s transgender treatment rule draws raucous response. WUWF https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/florida-medical-board-votes-ban-gender-affirming-care-transgender-mino-rcna54632

Weiss, Suzy (April 19, 2022). The testosterone hangover. Common Sense / The Free Press https://www.thefp.com/p/the-testosterone-hangover

Masters, Hamilton Matthew (January 30, 2022). Proud Boys and LGBTQ rights supporters face off in Murfreesboro. Nashville Scene.  https://www.nashvillescene.com/news/pithinthewind/proud-boys-and-lgbtq-rights-supporters-face-off-in-murfreesboro/article_4434885c-a0c7-11ed-9435-df49b232d251.html

San Joaquin County Superior Courts (May 14, 2019). Jocelyn Brockman v. Jeffrey Brockman Stockton Family Law Courthouse, Judge Robin Appel presiding. https://unicourt.com/case/ca-sj-jocelyn-brockman-vs-jeffrey-brockman-565410

Resources

Trans Data Library (transdatalibrary.org)

  • Chloe Cole
  • transdatalibrary.org/person/chloe-cole

Chloe Cole (chooocole.com) [parked]

X/Twitter (x.com)

GoFundMe (gofundme.com)

Instagram (instagram.com)

Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)

YouTube (youtube.com)

Young America’s Foundation (yaf.org)

Billy Burleigh is an American engineer and ex-transgender activist. Burleigh gets money and attention by making it more difficult for others to get trans healthcare.

Background

Clifton Francis “Billy” Burleigh, Jr. was born in November of 1966. Burleigh claims to have had several childhood issues, “including a speech impediment, a learning disability, and childhood sexual abuse.”

Burleigh attended Louisiana State University, earning a bachelor’s degree in 1991 and a master’s degree in 1993. After college, Burleigh had therapy for five to six years until “I told my therapist that I wanted to transition.”

Burleigh has worked as a hydraulic engineer at Motion Industries and transitioned on the job there. Around 1999, Burleigh started taking hormones, and about three years later had bottom surgery and facial surgery. During this time, Burleigh used the name Billie Frances Burleigh and worked at Belcan and Parker Hannifin.

Burleigh claims to have lived as a woman from ages 31 to 38. Around 2004, “After presenting myself as a woman for seven years, I detransitioned.” The process took about three years.

After making additional gender changes, Burleigh worked at Fluid Power Systems Consultants, Kemper Engineering Services, Teledyne Brown Engineering, Geocent, SpaceX, and ManTech.

Anti-trans activism

In 2017, Burleigh legally changed name and gender in Santa Barbara County Superior Courts.

Burleigh has gone on to be a key figure in testifying against trans healthcare at the state and federal levels:

Amicus Clifton Francis (“Billy”) Burleigh Jr.’s biography is brief, however, his personal background still brings a valuable perspective to this case. Mr. Burleigh was one of the many who contacted Mr. Heyer, regretting the decision to transition. Initially, when Mr. Burleigh first transitioned to identifying as a female, he was excited. Unfortunately, soon after the transition he felt discomfort identifying as a female, and states that, “I was better off as I was before the surgery, before the hormone treatment.” After six years of identifying as a woman, Mr. Burleigh started maturing in his relationship with Jesus and, as a result, learned the truth – that he was not female — and a desire grew in his heart to transition back to identifying as male. After seven years of identifying as a female, Mr. Burleigh underwent surgery to revert back to identifying as male.

Burleigh has been active in Lompoc Foursquare Church.

References

Astor, Maggie (May 16, 2023) How a Few Stories of Regret Fuel the Push to Restrict Gender Transition Care. New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/16/us/politics/transgender-care-detransitioners.html

https://ia902301.us.archive.org/4/items/gov.uscourts.ared.128159/gov.uscourts.ared.128159.45.27.pdf

-https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/18/18-107/113528/20190824011904782_18-107%20Amicus%20Brief%20of%20Walt%20Heyer%20et%20al..pdf

-https://trellis.law/case/17cv03328/matter-clifton-francis-burleigh-jr

-https://bels.alabama.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/2010-Agendas-Minutes.pdf

Resources

Trans Data Library (transdatalibrary.org)

LinkedIn (linkedin.com)

Camille Kiefel is an American “ex-transgender” activist. Kiefel gets money and attention by making it harder for others to get trans healthcare.

Background

Kiefel identified as nonbinary and medically transitioned as an adult.

Kiefel is heavily invested in metaphors of disease and impairment as identity and reportedly has the following problems:

  • CPTSD
  • major depressive disorder
  • ADHD
  • generalized anxiety disorder
  • suicidal ideation

Anti-trans activism

In 2022 Kiefel announced a lawsuit against the healthcare providers who tried to help. Keifel filed another case in 2024.

Kiefel is listed as principal of Detrans Help, a nonprofit founded in 2023.

Kiefel has made the rounds on conservative and fascist media promoting the ex-trans movement.

References

Goldstein, Julie Rei (March 12, 2025). “For #DetransAwarenessDay a major #DeTransLaw update! Camille Kiefel’s (@GetBetterTweets ) lawsuit against her surgical team has been Dismissed with Prejudice along with a Money Award Camille now owes the Defendants for bringing forth this action. These lawsuits keep failing.” https://x.com/JulieRei/status/1899849055397912972

Goldstein, Julie Rei (January 23, 2024). “Interesting #DeTransLaw News: Camille Kiefel’s case has been reinstated after last years dismissal. Notably, she is no longer represented by @CEJacksonLaw. Her current attorney is Benjamin Boyd of Hostetter Law Group, neither of which lists expertise in Medical Malpractice.” https://x.com/JulieRei/status/1749872414916530289

Reed, Erin (November 2, 2023). “Everyone Should Become Catholic”—PragerU $1 Million #DETRANS Ad Echoes Ex-Gays. Erin in the Morning https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/everyone-should-become-catholicprageru

Jackson, Daniel; Knoll, James L. (July 12, 2023). Trauma and Transition Trajectories: The Risk of Caenisian Reversion. Psychiatric Times https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/trauma-and-transition-trajectories-the-risk-of-caenisian-reversion

Michels, Holly (January 27, 2023). 5-hour hearing shows emotional debate over bill to block gender care for trans minors. Independent Record https://helenair.com/news/state-regional/government-politics/5-hour-hearing-shows-emotional-debate-over-bill-to-block-gender-care-for-trans-minors/article_8b65c48b-124e-5900-b4e5-982021691545.html

Carnahan, Ashley (December 21, 2022). Detransitioner shares emotional story on why she’s suing doctors who performed double mastectomy. Tucker Carlson Tonight https://www.foxnews.com/media/detransitioner-shares-emotional-story-shes-suing-doctors-performed-double-mastectomy

Schlott, Rikki (December 3, 2022). Detransitioner: ‘I’m suing the doctors who removed my healthy breasts.’ New York Post https://nypost.com/2022/12/03/detransitioner-im-suing-the-doctors-who-removed-my-healthy-breasts/

Goldsberry, Jenny (December 3, 2022). Detransitioner who had breasts removed says she is suing doctors who approved surgery. Washington Examiner https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/fairness-justice/former-nonbinary-patient-sues-social-worker-therapist

“Buttons, Christina” (November 18, 2022). Detransitioner Announces Lawsuit Against Oregon Gender Clinics For Expediting Surgery. The Daily Wire https://www.dailywire.com/news/detransitioner-announces-lawsuit-against-oregon-gender-clinics-for-expediting-surgery

Hathaway, Candace (November 18, 2022). Detransitioner sues Oregon gender clinics for ‘abhorrent misdiagnosis’ that ‘mutilated’ her body. The Blaze https://www.theblaze.com/news/detransitioner-sues-oregon-gender-clinics

Elmore, Erin (November 8, 2022). Oregon Woman Sues Gender Transition Care Providers over Rushed Treatment that caused ‘Irreversible’ Damage. Turning Point USA https://www.tpusa.com/live/oregon-woman-sues-gender-transition-care-providers-over-rushed-treatment-that-caused-irreversible-damage

Reinl, James (November 7, 2022). Oregon Woman Sues Carers for green-lighting double mastectomy. Daily Mail https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11399015/Oregon-woman-sues-trans-care-team-abhorrent-misdiagnosis-left-MUTILATED.html

Selected writing by Kiefel

Kiefel, Camille (July 31, 2023). I Was Nonbinary. Now I Help Detransitioners. Newsweek https://www.newsweek.com/nonbinary-surgery-breast-removal-detransitioning-1816309

Media

Calmversations with Benjamin A. Boyce and Camille Kiefel (January 24, 2023). “Health Care” (Minus Health, Care) | a Detrans Story with Camille Kiefel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NW9s-UvOgog

Dangerous Rhetoric with Brently Kopopolous, Daniel de la Fé and Camille Kiefer (January 20, 2023). Dangerous Rhetoric 99: Camille Kiefel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTjzPkUa-VI

Michael Ballantine (January 19, 2023). Detransitioner Camille Kiefel, Permanently Damaged By Lies. Woke Uphttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtTC_A4oswA

The Center for Bioethics and Culture Network with Kallie Fell and Camille Kiefel (March 14, 2023). Venus Rising with Camille: I Regret My Top Surgery. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7j2171JpQQM

The Center for Bioethics and Culture Network with Kallie Fell and Camille Kiefel (May 23, 2023). Venus Rising with Camille Part 2. The Center for Bioethics and Culture Network https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c75FqCjHBWA

Buck Angel with Camille Kiefel (June 15, 2022). Detransitioner: “I Regret Cutting Off My Breasts.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ogs-0onakU

Erin Brewer with Camille Kiefel (October 9, 2022). Detransition: The Importance of Physical Health/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Uyo-pR5iUc

Resources

Camille Kiefel (camillekiefel.com)

Detrans Foundation is a website run by anti-transgender therapists. It is part of the “ex-transgender” movement.

Background

The Detrans Foundation website was founded in April 2022.

Key people

Anti-trans article list

Detrans Foundation’s recommended reading list features many key figures in the ex-trans movement:

  • Terry A Adirim
  • David A Klein
  • Christina M Roberts
  • Elie Vandenbussche

Resources

Detrans Foundation (detransfoundation.com)

Genspect is an anti-transgender extremist group primarily opposed to medical consensus on healthcare for gender diverse youth. Founder Stella O’Malley is a global ringleader in anti-transgender extremism. Genspect is designated as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Genspect positions include

Background

In November 2018, psychologist Stella O’Malley presented the anti-trans Channel 4 documentary Trans Kids: It’s Time to Talk. Throughout the show, O’Malley questions the affirmative model of care for young people. O’Malley claims that in the current climate it’s “absolutely certain” that O’Malley would have transitioned as a minor. O’Malley was upset by the negative reaction to the show and soon started working closely with other anti-trans extremists.

Genspect emerged from the anti-trans Pediatric and Adolescent Gender Dysphoria Working Group (PAGDWG), a group of 18 therapists and one physician heavily involved in anti-trans activism. PAGDWG was founded in 2018 to oppose the trans-supportive Gender Dysphoria Affirmative Working Group founded a month earlier. PAGDWG members also went on to found anti-trans hate group Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine (SEGM), with seven overlapping advisors between Genspect and SEGM.

In 2020, O’Malley co-founded the Gender Dysphoria Support Network. That group ramped up during the COVID lockdowns, forming a coalition with the “parental rights” and “trans widow” movements of unaccepting parents and spouses. Soon, they began promoting the ex-transgender movement by supporting “detransitioners.”

Genspect was founded in June 2021. Genspect’s goal is to maintain and potentially increase the influence of psychologists in controlling access to trans healthcare, a model of care called “psychological gatekeeping.” Genspect members were upset that major medical organizations were moving away from models that frame gender diversity as a psychosexual pathology (a sexuality disease) or a psychopathology (mental illness).

Genspect promotes a “non-medicalized” approach that prioritizes psychologists who work to prevent people from making a medical transition. Audio leaked from a 2021 online event confirmed that Genspect’s approach is conversion therapy:

  • O’Malley: “I suppose where I’m coming from this more than anything is to make sure that children are, if at all possible, are stopped from medical transition. I think that’s the most important thing for me.”
  • O’Malley: “And so, why am I interested in autogynephilia? It’s primarily because I’m meeting teenage autogynephiles and I need to be able to understand what’s happening with them. […] This is a very fast, very quickly increasing number of boys. Now, are they ROGD, are they AGP, or frankly are they what I think: a mix between AGP and ROGD, and I think the AGP is porn induced.”
  • O’Malley: “Something happened between the 1990s and 2010s with with the gender movement that the keys were given away to the activists.”

Although critics have joked that Genspect stands for “genital inspectors,” O’Malley says the name derives from “inspecting gender.” Originally billed as “a voice for parents” who do not accept their child’s gender identity, Genspect soon expanded to broader criticism of trans healthcare. Genspect is particularly opposed to the World Professional Association of Transgender Health (WPATH) and their widely-used Standards of Care (SOC), a consensus document on healthcare protocols for trans and gender diverse people. SOC version 8 was in development at the time and was published in 2022.

Connected entities

Genspect is part of an anti-trans web farm that includes:

  • Genspect
  • Beyond Trans (anti-trans therapy)
  • Themis Resource Fund (anti-trans litigation)
  • The Killarney Group (anti-trans think tank)
  • Stats for Gender (anti-trans statistics)
  • Genspect Unheard (anti-trans parents)
  • Inspecting Gender (anti-trans group blog)
  • College Ratings (ranking colleges by anti-trans campus climate)

Team

Advisors

The following people have been listed as advisors. Some are no longer listed.

Contributors

In addition to pieces written by leaders and advisors, several people are listed as contributors of articles for Genspect, including

International chapters

Genspect Australia

Genspect Canada

Genspect Ireland

Genspect New Zealand

Genspect NZ Limited was incorporated on April 8, 2024.

Genspect UK

Genspect USA

2022 Wall Street Journal response

The president of the 67,000-member American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) countered a Wall Street Journal opinion piece by anti-trans activists Julia Mason and Leor Sapir:

AAP advises pediatricians to offer developmentally appropriate care that is oriented toward understanding and appreciating the youth’s gender experience. This care is nonjudgmental, includes families and allows questions and concerns to be raised in a supportive environment. This is what it means to “affirm” a child or teen; it means destigmatizing gender variance and promoting a child’s self-worth. 

O’Malley responded to their response:

I am encouraged by the American Academy of Pediatrics’ statement in its letter that gender-affirming care “doesn’t push medical treatments or surgery; for the vast majority of children, it recommends the opposite.” Unfortunately, this is not the experience of families of gender-distressed children.

Genspect represents thousands of parents of gender-questioning children and young people around the world. We are not aware of any cases in the U.S. or Canada in which children seeking “gender-affirming care” were not given the option of puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones.

The AAP should recognizes this fundamental point: There is no consensus and no evidence base on which to confidently declare what is “medically appropriate” for gender transitioning of children.

Media Matters for America has noted how writer Katie J. M. Baker of the New York Times has laundered Genspect’s anti-trans views into their publication:

The latest piece — another entry in the genre of New York Times articles that start from the premise that trans people are perhaps too accepted in society — covers “a network of internet support groups for ‘skeptical’ parents of transgender children, some with thousands of registered members” without noting that the groups are run by Genspect, an organization that opposes bans on conversion therapy and has numerous members who support banning gender-affirming care for trans people under 25. 

April 2023 Ireland conference

O’Malley organized a conference in Ireland on April 27-29, 2023 that featured prominent anti-transgender activists, including:

Attendees included Malcolm Clark, Laura Becker, Colin Wright, Wesley Yang, Jo Bartosch, Camille Kiefel, Robin Ion, Sarah Vaci, Corinna Cohn, and Róisín Michaux.

November 2023 Denver conference

Scheduled participants included:

Attendees also included “in_detransit,” “Phil Illy,” “Shape Shifter,” Luka Hein, David Boettger, Julia Malott, Laura Becker, Christina Buttons, Jennifer Block, Pamela Garfield-Jaeger, Jennifer Lahl, Lisa Marchiano, Soren Aldaco, Jessie Mannisto, Leslie Elliott Boyce, and Elliot Kaminetzky.

2023 Australia/New Zealand online event

In November 2023, Genspect held a webinar featuring anti-trans activists in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand called “Best Practices in Gender Care.” In it, Joe Burgo and Alasdair Gunn presented the draft of Genspect’s alternative to the WPATH Standards of Care, titled The Gender Framework. Schedule participants were:

September 2024 Lisbon event

Scheduled speakers included:

September 2025 Albuquerque event

Genspect’s 2025 conference was announced in July 2025. Scheduled speakers include:

The Gender Framework

In 2023, Genspect’s Killarney Group released the first draft of The Gender Framework, a guide for anti-trans therapists seeking a “non-medicalized” approach to gender. It was created as an alternative to the WPATH Standards of Care. Credited contributors were:

In 2025, Genspect published a revision of The Gender Framework, launched at their 2025 conference.

Editors

Contributors

References

Urquhart, Evan (October 9, 2025). Hate Group Calls for Re-Labeling Transness as Mental Illness. Assigned https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/hate-group-pushes-label-transgender-mental-illness

Staff report (September 29, 2025). Genspect Joins In On Calls to Label Trans People as Extremists. Assigned https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/genspect-joins-calls-transgender-extremists

Hansford, Amelia (August 12, 2025). Wes Streeting met with ‘gender-critical’ groups to discuss ‘gender policy.’ PinkNews https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/08/12/wes-streeting-gender-policy-meeting/

Wilchins, Riki (Aug 5, 2025). Uncovering the Christian Right’s Anti-Trans Disinformation Network with the Southern Poverty Law Center. Assigned https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/uncovering-christian-right-anti-trans-disinformation-network

Hansford, Amelia (June 10 2024). Two anti-trans organisations listed as ‘hate groups’ by civil rights charity. PinkNews https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/06/10/anti-trans-organisations-hate-groups-southern-poverty-law-center/

Lazine, Mira (June 6, 2024). Anti-trans organizations Genspect & SEGM are now listed as hate groups by the SPLC. LGBTQ Nation https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/06/anti-trans-organizations-genspect-segm-are-now-listed-as-hate-groups-by-the-splc/

Reed, Erin (June 5, 2024). SPLC Designates Genspect, SEGM As Anti-LGBTQ Hate Groups. Erin In The Morning https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/splc-designates-genspect-segm-as

Piper, Ernie (July 25, 2023). ‘Focus relentlessly on under 25’: Leaked chats reveal influential gender-critical group’s plan to use children to push for bans on transitioning. Daily Dot https://www.dailydot.com/debug/genspect/

Santoro, Helen (May 2, 2023). How Therapists Are Trying to Convince Children That They’re Not Actually Trans. Slate https://slate.com/technology/2023/05/gender-exploratory-therapy-trans-kids-what-is-it.html

Turner, Jackie (March 10, 2023). Anti-trans disinformation is rife in Australia — and it’s being spread by a small group of organisations. Crikey https://www.crikey.com.au/2023/03/10/anti-trans-disinformation-australia-transphobia/

Drennen, Ari (February 8, 2023). The New York Times helped fuel an anti-trans panic in 2022. Will 2023 be any better? Media Matters for America https://www.mediamatters.org/new-york-times/new-york-times-helped-fuel-anti-trans-panic-2022-will-2023-be-any-better

Ferreira, Lou (March 25, 2022). NHS pulls trans health conference after speakers’ anti-trans links exposed. openDemocracy https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/5050/nhs-pulls-trans-conference-after-speakers-links-exposed/

Coverage in anti-trans press

Shriver, Lionel (October 2025). Transgenderism proves people will believe anything. The Spectator https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/transgenderism-proves-people-will-believe-anything/

Baker, Katie J. M. (January 23, 2023). When Students Change Gender Identity, and Parents Don’t Know. New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/22/us/gender-identity-students-parents.html

Szilagyi, Moira (August 21, 2022). Academy of Pediatrics Responds on Trans Treatment for Kids. Wall Street Journal https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/trans-gender-pediatric-aap-kids-children-care-surgery-affirm-treatment-11660942086

Bazelon, Emily (June 15, 2022). The Battle Over Gender Therapy. New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/15/magazine/gender-therapy.html

Dixon, Hayley (June 26, 2021). CBBC’s trans messaging is damaging children, says mother. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/06/26/cbbcs-trans-messaging-damaging-children-says-mother/

Selected anti-trans writing by Genspect

Genspect USA (January 21, 2025). Introducing Genspect USA’s New Director. Genspect https://genspect.org/introducing-genspect-usas-new-director/

Genspect (2023). The Bigger Picture 2023 Conference Schedule. https://genspect.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Conference-Schedule-Denver.pdf https://genspect.org/the-bigger-picture-continues-denver-colorado/

Book

O’Malley, Stella; Bartle, Carol; Clark, Carrie; Miller, Amanda (2026). The Gender Framework: A Comprehensive Evidence-Based Guide for Professionals and Families. Pitchstone Publishing, ISBN 978-1634312844

Resources

Trans Data Library (transdatalibrary.org)

  • Genspect
  • transdatalibrary.org/organization/genspect

Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)

Genspect (genspect.org)

Stats for Gender (statsforgender.org)

Beyond Trans (beyondtrans.org)

Substack (substack.com)

LinkedIn (linkedin.com)

X/Twitter (x.com)

YouTube (youtube.com)

Facebook (facebook.com)

Instagram (instagram.com)

TikTok (tiktok.com)

The ex-trans movement will often describe the support they received as bad. They use the same words that transphobic people use to describe our community.

“Gender ideology”

  • gender cult
  • gender theory
  • gender dogma
  • gender theory
  • postmodern
  • anti-science
  • unethical

Disease

  • social contagion
  • derangement
  • delusion
  • plague
  • epidemic
  • abnormality
  • mass hysteria
  • syndrome

An ethical problem

  • iatrogenesis
  • medicalization
  • mutilation
  • atrocity

A problematic trend

  • craze
  • mania
  • frenzy
  • obsession
  • fad
  • clique
  • subculture

A political problem

  • conspiracy
  • movement
  • revolution
  • empire
  • collapse
  • faction

A sexual problem

  • deviance
  • a sexual seduction (grooming)
  • fetish
  • kink
  • defilement
  • corruption of innocence
  • rape
  • a crime against nature

A hate movement

  • misogyny
  • homophobia
  • heterophobia

A supernatural problem

  • demonic
  • evil

Sarah Vaci aka “Lordy” is an Anglo-Hungarian artist and anti-transgender activist. Vaci is associated with anti-trans hate group Genspect.

Vaci’s anti-trans activism focuses on the ex-transgender movement. Similar to the ex-gay movement of the 20th century, ex-trans activists and their supporters often believe people can be cured of being transgender through “desistance” or “detransition.”

Background

Sarah Vaci was born on September 22, 1977. According to Vaci’s LinkedIn profile, after graduating James Allen’s Girls’ School, Vaci earned a bachelor of technology degree from Ravensbourne University London in 1996 and a bachelor’s degree from Kent Institute of Art and Design in 1999. In 1999, Vaci was a production assistant for Media Merchants on Art Attack.

From 2001 to 2010. Vaci held several roles at The Film and Video Workshop, including animation project leader and party planner (2001–2010), animation and video workshop leader (2002–2010), and video director/camera operator/editor (2005–2010). In 2001 to 2002, Vaci was a volunteer with The Caxton Youth Trust in a club for young people with disabilities. In 2003, Vaci worked for RCH as a production manager, then as a videography specialist.

From 2020 to 2024, Vaci worked for Outschools. According to Vaci’s Outschools profile:

Since 2001 I have led film, animation and art workshops with children age 6 to adult with a specialism in SEN in schools, hospitals and SEN schools in the UK and USA. I also ran historical animation workshops for family groups at The British Museum in London for many years. My degree is in video installation art and I have an MA/MSc in Community Arts and SEN/inclusion studies where I focussed on creating animation with autistic children. As well as videography, I’ve studied kids’ TV presenting and stand-up comedy. I’m also an expert in 2D needle-felting and known internationally for my work.

I have two children (aged 8 and 12) and we love making films with my fantastic puppets and lego animations together. I home educate my kids and love injecting creativity into teaching more serious subjects such as mathematical graphs or spelling.

Vaci earned master’s degrees in 2008 from Goldsmiths, University of London and from the Institute of Education. From 2008 to 2014, Vaci ran digital workshops at The British Museum. Vaci then opened a studio to work independently.

Vaci is based in Devon and uses the nickname “Lordy.”

Anti-transgender activism

On March 12, 2022, Vaci began a project called Metamorphosis 100, profiling people whose gender identity or expression has shifted more than once and who identified as women at the time Vaci profiled them.

Vaci joined anti-trans hate group Genspect as a digital content creator in 2023, producing videos.

Metamorphosis 100

Because transition regret is so rare, Vaci has faced challenges completing 100 profiles of ex-trans activists. Because so many of Vaci’s profiles use fake names, it’s not possible to verify if they are real or have retransitioned. A number of people profiled have withdrawn or asked to be removed, so the current number of about 60 profiles is misleading. The project stalled out after profile number 62.

The profiles are:

1: Laura Becker / Funk God

2: Cat Cattinson

3: Amber

4: Aoife [deleted]

5: Celine

6: Ashlyn

7: Aiden

8: Michelle

9: Maria

10: Emanuely

11: Amanda

12: C

13: Kat

14: Eve / Kylie

15: Jill O’Connor

16: Maria

17: ML

18: Jesse

19: Mnemosyne / Lytonya

20: Angelina Mannino

21: Oliver

22: A

23: Rada Linnea

24: Lexi

25: Jamie

26: Dakota

27: Diana Matos

28: Camille Kiefel

29: Juniper / Ellan K

30: A

31: Prisha Mosley / detransaqua

32: Jordan

33: Raven Mack

34: Jasmine / J.J. McQuade

35: Pip Malone

36: Soren Aldaco

37: Courtney Coulson

38: Rachel

39: Jade

40: [Anonymous]

41: Estella

42: Carol

43: Gabrielle

44: [withdrawn]

45: Tyla

46: Magda

47: Emma

48: [anonymous]

49: Max Robinson

50: Chloe Cole

51: Sabet

52: Violet

53: Evie

54: Victoria Gugenheim

55: Mary

56: Marina

57: Ash

58: Jade

59: Hanna

60: Layton

61: April

62: Calista

References

Linton, Deborah (July 25, 2019). Motheaten! Trump, Kim and Putin face an army of starving pests. The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/jul/25/motheaten-trump-kim-putin-artwork-sarah-vaci-clothes-moth-larvae

Selected anti-trans writing by Vaci

Vaci, Sarah (August 5, 2021). My Gender Dysphoria Story https://www.sarahvaci.com/post/agenderdysphoriastory

Media

Nathan Maingard | Songwriter & Guide with Sarah Vaci (February 28, 2025). Unpacking identity, gender, detransitioning, and much more with heartful artist Sarah Vaci EP52. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CBFZcv_BOM

Women’s Declaration International with Sarah Vaci (May 23, 2024). Sarah Vaci, United Kingdom, Art as Activism – The Path to Metamorphosis 100 #FQT #WDI. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gusk9U3KOps

Sarah Vaci (February 17, 2024). 100 Detransitioned Women – portraits and stories (Marina, portrait 46). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdsmjGjF_Z4

Red Moon Radfem (September 13, 2023). with Sarah Vaci (Lordy). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcKrSAJVDhE

Our Duty with Keith Jordan and Sarah Vaci (March 7, 2023). Interview with Sarah Vaci. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvDhnuPxh3c

The Shorely Insider’s Guide (July 17, 2019). Trump, Putin & Jong-un meet moth larvae at Sarah Vaci’s exhibition at Artizan Gallery | The Shorely. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfTAqp_NPzM

Resources

Sarah Vaci (sarahvaci.com) [archive]

  • Bio and exhibitions
  • sarahvaci.com/exhibitions [archive]

Metamorphosis 100 (metamorphosis100.com)

LinkedIn (linkedin.com)

X/Twitter (x.com)

Instagram (instagram.com)

Facebook (facebook.com)

YouTube (youtube.com)

Outschool (outschool.com)