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 bachelor’s degree from Ithaca College in 1996 and a master’s 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 “resides in Pacifica, California and loves coastal living.” Garfield-Jaeger’s spouse is civil engineer Gregory Owen “Greg” 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:
I’m 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 girls’ 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 “Dysconnected” 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 “Cut-Daughters of the West” 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)
Clinical Advisory Network on Sex and Gender (CAN-SG) is an anti-transgender front group. It is part of an anti-trans web farm of similar sites. YouTube designates their videos as “conversion therapy content.”
Background
CAN-SG was incorporated on June 14, 2023.
Officers
Members include
Contributors cited include
2023 Guardian letter
Following a 2023 Department for Education draft guidance regarding gender questioning children, CAN-SG members expressed conditional support for the draft. Signatories were:
- Az Hakeem, consultant psychiatrist
- Sinead Helyar, nurse
- Louise Irvine, GP
- Tessa Katz, GP
- Stella Kingett, consultant psychiatrist
- Jane Martin, psychiatrist (retired)
- Aileen O’Brien, consultant psychiatrist
- Stella O’Malley, psychotherapist
- Juliet Singer, consultant child psychiatrist
- Bob Withers, psychoanalyst
2024 conference
In March 2024, CAN-SG held a conference in London called “Do No Harm.” It featured many key opponents of healthcare for trans and gender diverse youth.
The event was held at 30 Euston Square, the headquarters of the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP). Following protests from members and the public, RGCP requested that CAN-SG remove all references that suggested RCGP were involved or endorsed the event, which was reportedly booked by Searcys, the venue’s event manager.
RCGP leaders stated:
The RCGP is one of 20 health organisations that have signed a memorandum of understanding opposing conversion therapy, so we were very vocal opponents of the Government’s proposal to ban the practice for lesbian, gay and bisexual people in England and Wales but not for trans people. When the document was updated to include gender identity, we worked with other signatories to ensure the memorandum was clear that being opposed to conversion therapy did not mean opposing appropriate clinical and psychological interventions for trans and gender-questioning people and that it is entirely possible to deliver a ban on conversion therapy that protects all LGBTQ+ people.
RCGP (2024) [emphasis mine]
Three pro-trans protesters were arrested for actions outside the venue.
Promoted organizers, speakers, and panelists:
References
Hawthorne, Kamila; Holmes, Mike; Thomas, Mark (February 14, 2024). Statement from Professor Kamila Hawthorne, Chair of Council, Professor Mike Holmes, Chair of Trustees, and Mark Thomas, Acting Chief Executive Officer re: CAN-SG conference. https://www.rcgp.org.uk/News/can-sg-conference-statement
Parr, Eliza (February 12, 2024). RCGP under pressure to cancel ‘gender critical’ conference. Pulse https://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/news/clinical-areas/mental-health-and-addiction/rcgp-under-pressure-to-cancel-gender-critical-conference/
CAN-SG (December 31, 2023). Letter: Parents must hold schools to account on gender. The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/commentisfree/2023/dec/31/parents-must-hold-schools-to-account-on-gender-observer-letters
Resources
Clinical Advisory Network on Sex and Gender (can-sg.org)
Twitter (twitter.com)
YouTube (youtube.com)
Companies House (find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk)
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)
Regret is rare among people who make a gender transition. In 27 studies totaling 7,928 surgery patients, the regret rate was about 1%: “Pooling data from numerous studies demonstrates a regret rate ranging from .3 percent to 3.8 percent. Regrets are most likely to result from a lack of social support after transition or poor surgical outcomes using older techniques.”
A 2024 study from Perth Children’s Hospital in Perth, Australia found low regret rates among minors:
In this cohort study of 548 individuals with closed referrals to a pediatric gender clinic, 29 (5.3%) reportedly reidentified with their birth-registered sex before or during assessment. Two of these individuals reidentified during medical treatment, which corresponds to 1.0% of all patients who initiated medical treatment.
Cavve et al. (2024)
Sometimes a person who makes a change in gender identity or gender expression will make more changes later. That is a key goal of our political movement. You should be able to change your gender identity and expression as often as you want.
There is no shame in questioning your gender and not being sure what to do. As with most big life choices, making a gender transition is a leap of faith, and it is good to look before you leap! No one wants to live a life of regret, whether it is regret about not transitioning sooner, or regret after making a gender transition. The best way to lower the chances of regret is to think carefully about what will give your life fulfillment.
Many people see gender changes on a spectrum. Some people only see them as a binary. You can always transition in any direction, and it is not all or nothing. Every person should feel free to be themselves in their own way. That can change over time. There is no shame in changing your identity or expression more than once. It is not a “failure” to change direction. It is not bad to change your mind. Many of us support you no matter what you choose. We want you to live a life full of purpose and joy. We will fight for your right to be your true self.
Most people who make more gender changes have no regrets about their earlier transition. The choices you make and the actions you take always carry some risk. Some people will feel they made a mistake. It is important not to focus on your mistakes. We all make them, even on big things. When you feel you made a mistake, you have to let it go, forgive yourself and others, and move forward. When you dwell on your mistakes and regret, you are looking backwards to the past.
Being transgender is hard. It is difficult for many people to reach their expectations for transition. They may be dissatisfied with the results or unwanted side effects from medical transition. They may have a hard time moving through the world because of how they look or act. They may have a hard time with acceptance at work, school, or home. It is important to consider the experiences of people who regret transition when deciding what is right for you. Most people who discuss their regrets do so because they want to help others avoid the same regret.
Making more changes
Gender transition is mostly social. All social changes can be changed more than once. All legal changes like name or gender marker can be changed more than once. Many medical changes can be changed more than once. If you undertsand the possible benefits and side effects, it is OK to try hormones or hormone blockers for a little while and stop. Because surgery is a significant step, you need to be very sure before you have surgery. Experts who reviewed 27 studies with a total of 7,928 patients who had surgery found a pooled prevalence of regret of just 1%.
Researchers at Cornell University looked at peer-reviewed studies published between 1991 and 2017:
We identified 55 studies that consist of primary research on this topic, of which 51 (93%) found that gender transition improves the overall well-being of transgender people, while 4 (7%) report mixed or null findings. We found no studies concluding that gender transition causes overall harm.
What We Know Project (2018)
The ex-transgender movement
Of the estimated 240 million trans and gender diverse people worldwide, there are only a few dozen public ex-trans activists worldwide. Each person in the core group of ex-trans activists in the media is literally one in a million.
Most people who decide to make more gender changes still support transgender people. Some just want to share their stories. They want others to learn from their experiences. Even most people who regret making a gender change feel it should be an option for others.
In rare cases, a person who has regret about a gender transition also decides to get money or attention by joining the “ex-trans” movement, also called “political detransition.” Some work to limit or even end access to trans health services for others. Some even work to take away trans people’s other rights. They usually blame others for their transition instead of taking personal responsibility for their own decisions.
The people they blame can include:
- Supportive family
- Supportive friends
- Supportive educators
- Supportive transitioners
- Supportive organizations
- Supportive strangers
- Supportive media (especially social media)
- Supportive therapists
- Supportive healthcare providers
In other words, they often blame the people who tried to help them.
Political strategy
The ex-trans movement focuses on these controversial concepts:
“Desistance“
- Typically used for children, this usually means someone who stopped identifying as transgender before taking medical or legal steps.
“Detransition“
- Typically used for adults, this usually means someone who took social, medical, and/or legal transition steps, then took more steps in another direction later.
Litigation
- Ex-trans activists often sue healthcare providers to make money and to have a chilling effect on options for our healthcare.
Historic ex-trans activists
Despite their small numbers, ex-trans activists have been a cisgender media fixation for nearly a century. Some notable older “ex-trans” people include:
Ex-trans people often join the movement following a political or religious conversion. For others, they get involved as a form of attention-seeking behavior, or as a way to make money. Beginning in 2021, the fringe ex-trans movement began to get more politically organized through connections with other conservative and fascist movements.
Confirmed ex-trans activists
The following people have engaged in ex-trans activism and have independently confirmed identities. They are ordered by their real surnames, with fake names and handles also listed.
- Kasey Emerick / “KC Miller” / “dyke_in_denial”
- Charlie Evans / charlie_sci / DetransAdv
- Grayson Powell / Grace Powell
- Laura Reynolds
- Heath Atom Russell
- Ememlie Schmidt / “Emelie” / Emmie / SullivanStar221 [Twitter] [YT]
- Laura Perry Smalts
- Amanda Stewart
- Daisy Strongin / “Daisy Chadra”
- Phillip Martine Suarez-Hamilton / OfTheFutureArt / Estella
Unconfirmed ex-trans activists
Many alleged ex-trans activists use fake names and usernames, making it impossible to confirm their claims independently. The following people claim online to be ex-trans activists.
General Twitter/X accounts
Media bias
People who express regret are vastly overrepresented in the media. They are often presented the way “ex-gays” used to be presented and are primarily uplifted by conservative and gender critical media figures.
References
Thornton SM, Edalatpour A, Gast KM (2024). A systematic review of patient regret after surgery- A common phenomenon in many specialties but rare within gender-affirmation surgery. The American Journal of Surgery https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amjsurg.2024.04.021
Reed, Erin (April 26, 2024). Landmark Systematic Review Of Trans Surgery: Regret Rate “Remarkably Low.” Erin in the Morning https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/landmark-systematic-review-of-trans
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
Cavve BS, Bickendorf X, Ball J, Saunders LA, Thomas CS, Strauss P, Chaplyn G, Marion L, Siafarikas A, Ganti U, Wiggins A, Lin A, Moore JK (2024). Reidentification With Birth-Registered Sex in a Western Australian Pediatric Gender Clinic Cohort. JAMA Pediatrics https://doi.org/10.1001/jamapediatrics.2024.0077
Statista (2023). Share of people identifying as transgender, gender fluid, non-binary, or other ways worldwide as of 2023, by country. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1269778/gender-identity-worldwide-country/ ” three percent of respondents from 30 countries identified themselves as transgender, non-binary/non-conforming/gender-fluid, or in another way. “
What We Know Project, Cornell University (2018). What does the scholarly research say about the effect of gender transition on transgender well-being? (online literature review), 2018. https://whatweknow.inequality.cornell.edu/topics/lgbt-equality/what-does-the-scholarly-research-say-about-the-well-being-of-transgender-people/
We identified 55 studies that consist of primary research on this topic, of which 51 (93%) found that gender transition improves the overall well-being of transgender people, while 4 (7%) report mixed or null findings. We found no studies concluding that gender transition causes overall harm.
Narayan SK, Hontscharuk R, Danker S, Guerriero J, Carter A, Blasdel G, Bluebond-Langner R, Ettner R, Radix A, Schechter L, Berli JU (2021). Guiding the conversation—types of regret after gender-affirming surgery and their associated etiologies. Ann Transl Med 2021;9(7):605. https://doi.org/10.21037/atm-20-6204
-https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1HpGRzJ5nc7gecyXUKVRdCeXS1TYXe0w12A7Y9I2JIsE/edit#gid=0
Media
Keffals (April 27, 2022). CRINGING at Incredible DETRANSITIONER grift https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QqS8eaE57U
Vaush (October 13, 2022) The Detransitioner Grift https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om_a-iSRMjY
Archival resources
sexchangeregret.com [archive]
helpmereversemysexchange.org [archive]
trans-detransition.com [archive]
tradingmysorrows.com [archive]
sexchangeinfo.com [archive]
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 girls’ 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