Genspect is a group of conservative and anti-transgender activists 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
- opposing transition for transgender people under 26 years old
- opposing laws that would ban conversion therapy on the basis of gender identity
- supporting the disputed diagnosis “rapid onset gender dysphoria” (ROGD)
- supporting the “parental rights” movement of unsupportive parents of gender diverse youth
Background
Genspect was founded in 2021 by Stella O’Malley.
Genspect is part of an anti-trans web farm that includes:
In 2025, Genspect announced that Jennifer Lahl had stepped down from the Center for Bioethics and Culture to run Genspect USA.
Team
- Stella O’Malley, Executive Director & Founder
- Michelle Alleva
- Travis Brown, Content Producer
- Pamela Buffone, Canada
- Joseph Burgo
- Patrick Clarke
- Saoirse Connolly
- Vincent Deboni, South Africa
- Kathleen H. Dooley, USA
- Erin Friday, Board of Directors Member, Genspect USA
- Claire Graham, UK
- Kathleen Goonan
- Alasdair Gunn
- Jude Hunter, Australia Spokesperson
- Helena Kerschner, USA
- Jennifer Lahl, Director, Genspect USA
- Jessie Mannisto
- Julia Mason, USA
- Amanda Miller, Digital Content Manager USA
- Avi Ring
- Jan Rivers, NZ Spokesperson
- Marit RĂžnstad, Norway
- Sarah Vaci
- Sinéad Watson, UK
- “The Anonymous Parent”
Advisors
- Sasha Ayad, USA
- Keira Bell, UK
- Carrie Clark, UK
- Patrick Clarke, Australia
- Colette Colfer, Ireland
- Roberto DâAngelo, Australia
- Stephanie Davies-Arai, UK
- Marcus Evans, UK
- Susan Evans, UK
- Sophie Frost, Germany
- Az Hakeem, UK
- Milli Hill, UK
- Aaron Kimberly, Canada
- Stephen Levine, USA
- Lisa Littman, USA
- Michelle Mackness, Canada
- Lisa Marchiano, USA
- Sarah Phillimore, UK
- Helen Pluckrose, UK
- Rachel Rooney, UK
- Michael Shellenberger, USA
- Abigail Shrier, USA
- “Shannon Thrace,” USA
- Jane Wheeler, 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 youthâs 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 âaffirmâ a child or teen; it means destigmatizing gender variance and promoting a childâs self-worth.
O’Malley responded to their response:
I am encouraged by the American Academy of Pediatricsâ statement in its letter that gender-affirming care âdoesnât push medical treatments or surgery; for the vast majority of children, it recommends the opposite.â 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 âgender-affirming careâ 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 âmedically appropriateâ 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 â another entry in the genre of New York Times articles that start from the premise that trans people are perhaps too accepted in society â covers âa network of internet support groups for âskepticalâ parents of transgender children, some with thousands of registered membersâ 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 and featuring many anti-transgender activists.
Attendees included Malcolm Clark, Laura Becker, Colin Wright, Wesley Yang, Jo Bartosch, Camille Kiefel, Robin Ion, Sarah Vaci, Corinna Cohn, and RĂłisĂn 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.
Australia/New Zealand online event
- “An anonymous NZ doctor”
- Joe Burgo
- Margaret Curnow
- Alasdair Gunn
- Sue Middleton
- Jan Rivers
- Linde Rose
- Jillian Spencer
- Ngahuia te Awekotuku
- Simon Tegg
September 2024 Lisbon event
Scheduled speakers include
References
Genspect USA (January 21, 2025). Introducing Genspect USAâs New Director. Genspect https://genspect.org/introducing-genspect-usas-new-director/
Piper, Ernie (July 25, 2023). âFocus relentlessly on under 25â: Leaked chats reveal influential gender-critical groupâs plan to use children to push for bans on transitioning. Daily Dot https://www.dailydot.com/debug/genspect/
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
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
Baker, Katie J. M. (January 23, 2023). When Students Change Gender Identity, and Parents Donât Know. New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/22/us/gender-identity-students-parents.html
-https://genspect.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Conference-Schedule-Denver.pdf https://genspect.org/the-bigger-picture-continues-denver-colorado/
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/
Resources
Trans Data Library (transdatalibrary.org)
- Genspect
- transdatalibrary.org/organization/genspect
Genspect (genspect.org)
Genspect Unheard (genspectunheard.org)
Stats for Gender (statsforgender.org)
Beyond Trans (beyondtrans.org)
LinkedIn (linkedin.com)
X/Twitter (x.com)
YouTube (youtube.com)
Facebook (facebook.com)
Instagram (instagram.com)
Sarah Vaci is an Anglo-Hungarian artist and anti-transgender activist.
Vaci’s 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.”
Vaci is associated with anti-trans extremist group Genspect.
Background
Vaci was born on September 22, 1977. After graduating James Allen’s Girls’ School, Vaci earned a bachelor’s degree from Ravensbourne University London in 1996. Following ten years of working in SEN schools and with children with autism, Vaci earned master’s degrees in 2008 from Goldsmiths, University of London and from the Institute of Education.
Vaci worked in animation and film production from 1999 to 2010, including roles at The Film and Video Workshop. 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.” Vaci joined anti-trans group Genspect as a digital content creator in 2023.
Metamorphosis 100
On March 12, 2022, Vaci began profiling people whose gender identity or expression has shifted more than once and who identified as women at the time Vaci profiled them.
Because transition regret is so rare, Vaci has spent substantial time trying to find 100 verifiable people in the world to profile. A number of people profiled have withdrawn or asked to be removed, so the current number of profiles is misleading.
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
Vaci, Sarah (August 5, 2021). My Gender Dysphoria Story https://www.sarahvaci.com/post/agenderdysphoriastory
Resources
Sarah Vaci (sarahvaci.com)
Metamorphosis 100 (metamorphosis100.com)
LinkedIn (linkedin.com)
Twitter (twitter.com)
Instagram (instagram.com)
Facebook (facebook.com)
YouTube (youtube.com)
Pamela Garfield-Jaeger is a conservative American therapist and activist in the anti-vaccine and ex-transgender movements.
Do not under any circumstances go to Garfield-Jaeger for any kind of therapy. If you are a trans or gender-diverse minor being forced to see Garfield-Jaeger, do everything in your power to end the sessions and find a supportive local alternative.
Background
Pamela H. “Pam” Garfield was born on July 31, 1973. After earning a bachelorâs degree from Ithaca College in 1996 and a masterâs degree from New York University in 1999, Garfield-Jaeger was licensed in California in 2005. Garfield-Jaeger has done social work and therapy in New York and California at several locations, including The Family Center, Unity Care Group, Starlight Adolescent Center, YMCA, Institute on Aging, and Adolescent Counseling Services. Garfield-Jaeger has had a standalone LCSW practice since 2007 and has offered photography services.
Garfield-Jaeger âresides in Pacifica, California and loves coastal living.â Garfield-Jaeger’s spouse is civil engineer Gregory Owen âGregâ Jaeger (born August 1968), President and CEO of North Coast Engineering in San Miguel.
Conservative activism
Garfield-Jaeger is an ambassador for Turning Point USA (TPUSA), an American nonprofit promoting conservatism on high school, college, and university campuses.
Garfield-Jaeger is critical of vaccine mandates, mask mandates, critical race theory, and “the harms of gender medicine.”
Garfield-Jaeger is an advisor to the conservative anti-trans parent group Mom Army.
Anti-vaccine activism
On Garfield-Jaeger website, it says:
After losing her job at Sutter Health in 2021 due to Vaccine mandates, Pamela has been building a curriculum to guide parents through the mental health system. Her goal is to provide parents with the information and language so they can be the best advocates for their child’s mental health. Pamela’s mission is to educate parents on how to avoid therapists who lack skill or try to indoctrinate their children.
Anti-transgender activism
Garfield-Jaeger is active in the ex-transgender movement. Similar to the ex-gay movement of the 20th century, these anti-trans activists believe that they can prevent or cure children from being transgender. Garfield-Jaeger became alarmed when “half the girls identified as trans” in the outpatient mental health program at Mills Peninsula/Sutter Health:
Iâm a licensed therapist who discovered how extremely wrong gender affirmative therapy is simply because it became so radical and widespread in the last 5 years. I took a hiatus from my profession due to a physical disability and when I returned, the changes were shocking. My views on gender ideology are not politically motivated.
Garfield-Jaeger also promotes the ex-trans propaganda film Dysconnected:
Over the past few years, a transgender tsunami has swept the nation, completely overtaking the medical, educational, and counseling industries, and forever altering hundreds of thousands of young girlsâ lives. What is going on? How did it come to this? Who is behind it? And what is coming next? Filmmaker and father Don Johnson traveled the country to find out.
According to a 2023 promotion for a conservative women’s event:
Pamela has done several podcasts and YouTube interviews and starred in three documentaries about the harms of gender medicine. You can stream âDysconnectedâ by Don Johnson from www.dysconnectedmovie.com. There is a forthcoming film from the Epoch Times (not yet released and title unknown) and another by Simon Esler called âCut-Daughters of the Westâ soon to be available on YouTube. Pamela is part of the advisory board of a new movement called MOM Army (www.mom-army.com). Many of them are sexual abuse and trafficking survivors with a mission to stop the war on our children.
Garfield-Jaeger was on hand to document “Detransition Awareness Day,” a 2023 Sacramento gathering of about 10 ex-trans people, 30 supporters, and hundreds of counter-protestors. Participants included “Chloe Cole,” “detransaqua,” “Layla Jane,” “Exulansic,” “onedonebunu,”, Allie Snyder, Ciara Wall., Jay W. Richards, and Abel Garcia
References
Bay Area GOP (March 15, 2023). Therapy, Not Indoctrination. Mid Peninsula Republican Women Federated https://bayareagop.com/wp-content/images/MPRWF-March2023.pdf
Garfield-Jaeger, Pamela (May 25, 2023). Are We Headed Toward a Genderless, Sexually Dysfunctional World? The Epoch Times https://www.theepochtimes.com/are-we-headed-toward-a-genderless-sexually-dysfunctional-world_5292413.html
Garfield-Jaeger, Pamela (May 25, 2023). They Are Scared: Proponents of Gender Affirmation Showed Their Fear at a Conference. The Epoch Times https://www.theepochtimes.com/they-are-scared-proponents-of-gender-affirmation-showed-their-fear-at-a-conference_5292526.html
Resources
The Truthful Therapist (thetruthfultherapist.com)
LinkedIn (linkedin.com)
Twitter (twitter.com)
Instagram (instagram.com)
Substack (substack.com)
Jaeger Pics (jaegerpics.com) [archive]
Mom Army (mom-army.com)
Dysconnected (dysconnectedmovie.com)
The Epoch Times (theepochtimes.com)
Pamela Buffone is a Canadian software executive and anti-transgender activist.
Background
Pamela Neely “Pam” Buffone earned a bachelor’s degree from University of Ottawa in 1993 and a master’s degree from Western University in 1998.
Buffone and spouse Jason Buffone have a child and live in Ottawa.
Anti-transgender activism
Buffone’s child reportedly became “distressed” during a first-grade lesson about gender identity and expression. After complaining to the school, Buffone filed a discrimination case. The Ontario Human Rights Tribunal held a hearing in 2022, after which the case was dismissed/
Buffone founded anti-trans news site Canadian Gender Report and is an advisor to Genspect. Buffone lists all the usual anti-trans sources on Canadian Gender Report:
References
Behne, Alexander (September 8, 2022). Tribunal rules ‘teachable moment’ on gender identity did not breach Grade 1 student’s rights. CBC https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/tribunal-gender-identity-human-rights-ottawa-1.6575214
Resources
Canadian Gender Report (genderreport.ca)
LinkedIn (linkedin.com)
Twitter (twitter.com)
Parents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans (PITT) is an anti-transgender activist organization focused on the “parental rights” faction of anti-trans activism.
PITT is supported, in part, by anti-trans group Genspect.
Key people
- Josie Alexander, RN (Oregon)
- Dina Samuels (east coast)
PITT published the 2023 book Parents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans. It was edited by Josie and Dina with a foreword by Stella O’Malley of Genspect.
They list the following resources:
Resources
Substack (substack.com)
Cut: Daughters of the West – Alteration & Exploitation of Children is an anti-transgender 2023 film about the ex-transgender movement, with a focus on gender affirming surgery for youth.
Background
The film premiered on April 15th in Phoenix, Arizona as a fundraiser for The Gavel Project, an “anti-woke” non-profit moving from fighting COVID policies to fighting “gender affirmation policies in schools (e.g., policies promoting the sexualization of our children, including hormone therapies and reassignment surgeries for children).”
Synopsis
According to Esler:
Cut explores the impact of the current transgender craze on girls by diving into the history of plastic surgery. […] The film investigates the moral and cultural precursors that have enabled transgender ideology to thrive. Before the rise in puberty blockers, hormone therapy and double mastectomies, there was an exponential increase in teenage girls seeking breast augmentations and labiaplasties. Cosmetic surgery, and feminist icons flaunting sexual liberation, handed girls the power to permanently alter their bodies, based on trends and self diagnosis. Now, pre-teens have spiralled into a mental health crisis that coincides perfectly with the introduction of smartphones, social media and gender theory. Is this the cultural and historical legacy we have handed to girls on the precipice of womanhood. Filmmaker Simon Esler weaves the voices of experts, outspoken citizens and detransitioners into a cultural fever dream that asks: What has happened to the daughters of the West?
People
Production/Crew
- Simon Esler (writer-director)
Interviews
Blurbed by
- Scott Armstrong
- Landon Starbuck
- Justin Deschamps
Recommended organizations
- MOM Army
- The Truthful Therapist
- The Gavel Project
- Parents of ROGD kids
- Thoughtful Therapists
- Genspect
- Gender Dysphoria Support Network
- Advocates Protecting Children
- Partners for Ethical Care
- Gender Dissent (in Canada)
- Gender Dysphoria Alliance
- Our Duty
- Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine
- Transgender Trend (UK)
- Sex Change Regret
- Conservative Therapy Directory
- Jackson Bone Law
- Detrans United
- 4th Wave Now
- Gender Health Query
- GETA Gender Exploratory Therapy Association
- TReVoices
- Parents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans
- Wait Until 8th
Resources
Cut (daughtersofthewestfilm.com)
IMDb (imdb.com/)
Vimeo (vimeo.com)
Dysconnected: The Real Story Behind the Transgender Explosion is a film made by people from several factions of the anti-transgender movement, including ex-transgender activists, parental rights activists, gender critical activists, and conservative Catholic/Protestant activists.
Background
The film is distributed by Catholic publisher Ignatius Press. It’s produced by Runaway Planet Pictures and Don Johnson Media.
The film had its world premiere October 8, 2022 at the Freed Theater in Garden Grove, California.
Synopsis
According to Johnson:
Over the past few years, a transgender tsunami has swept the nation, completely overtaking the medical, educational, and counseling industries, and forever altering hundreds of thousands of young girlsâ lives. What is going on? How did it come to this? Who is behind it? And what is coming next? Filmmaker and father Don Johnson traveled the country to find out.
Dysconnected is about exposing the truth behind the gender ideology industry, one that allows children to make life-altering decisions for themselves without any parental consent, explores why there is an explosion of young girls identifying as transgender, seeking to understand why the medical and counseling industries are not pushing back on gender ideology, and highlighting stories of people who have detransitioned.
People
Filmmakers
- Donald J. “Don” Johnson
- Kendra Johnson
- Kevin Wandra
Participants and supporters
- Daisy Strongin
- Walt Heyer
- Ryan T. Anderson
- Abigail Favale
- Patrick Lappert
- Chris Elston
- Carl Trueman
- Pamela Garfield-Jaeger
- Erin Brewer
- Maria Keffler
- Christopher West
- Carl Olson
- Billy Burleigh
- Gary Michuta
- Margaret McCarthy
- Branda Lebsack
- Michael Hanby
- Benjamin Wiker
Resources
Dysconnected (dysconnectedmovie.com)
IMDb (imdb.com)
Ignatius Press (https://ignatius.com/disconnected-dism/)
Don Johnson Media (donjohnsonmedia.com)
Runaway Planet Pictures (runawayplanetpictures.vhx.tv)
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