Lauren Leggieri is an American former real estate agent and anti-transgender extremist. Leggieri is co-executive director of anti-trans separatist group LGB Courage Coalition with Jamie Reed.
Background
Lauren Leigh Leggieri was born on July 11, 1983 and grew up in Philadelphia. Leggieri reportedly attended Rutgers University. Leggieri operated a house painting business in Philadelphia.
According to a profile on LGB Courage Coalition: “Lauren successfully ran her own business as a female contractor, a career she left after being “canceled” for her unrelenting views that pediatric gender transitions harm gay youth.” Leggieri’s Pennsylvania real estate license expired in 2022.
Anti-trans activism
Leggieri was involved in the podcast The Reappearing Lesbian hosted by ex-trans extremist “Maia Poet” and co-hosts Aaron Kimberly, Talia Bongolan-Schwartz, and “Noah.” Bongolan-Schwartz has since deleted a number of accounts and posts, “Noah” still remains a pseudonymous figure lacking the courage of their convictions, and the July 2024 inaugural episode with Leggieri, titled “The pressure on lesbians to ‘trans'” has been inexplicably deleted.
Leggieri has led a number of protests, including:
- hecking the 2024 Endocrine Society Conference in Boston.
- heckling pediatrician Rachel Levine at the 2024 American Academy of Pediatrics Conference in Orlando.
- protesting outside the December 2024 U.S. Supreme Court US v Skrmetti hearing. Leggieri crowdfunded ~$3,345 of a $35,000 goal for this.
Leggieri is featured with Jamie Reed in a 2025 short film by anti-trans activist Jennifer Block.
In an article by anti-trans activist Mary Margaret Olohan, anti-trans lawyer Glenna Goldis mentioned Leggieri in the Daily Wire:
She pointed to her friends in the movement, like whistleblower Jamie Reid and Lauren Leggieri of the LGB Courage Coalition, which describes itself as “a lesbian and gay advocacy group committed to promoting evidence-based medical care, ending the medicalization of gender nonconformity, safeguarding homosexual rights, and building a pathway back for LGB individuals who have undergone medicalization.”
References
LGB Courage Coalition (July 11, 2025). LGB Courage Coalition to Advocate for Evidence-Based Care at Endocrine Society Conference in San Francisco – Criticizes Outdated Guidelines and Ethically Questionable Presentations. LGB Courage Coalition https://lgbcouragecoalition.substack.com/p/lgb-courage-coalition-to-advocate
Olohan, Mary Margaret (July 8, 2025). Attorney In Letitia James’s Office Breaks From Dems to Speak Out Against ‘Gender-Affirming Care. Daily Wire https://www.dailywire.com/news/top-letitia-james-deputy-breaks-from-dems-to-speak-out-against-gender-affirming-care’
Feminist Struggle (November 23, 2024). FIST establishes collaboration with LGBT Courage Coalition in Campaign to End Child Transition. https://feministstruggle.org/2024/11/23/fist-establishes-collaboration-with-lgbt-courage-coalition-in-campaign-to-end-child-transition/
Dansky, Kara (October 4, 2024). FFS: Lauren Leggieri (3L). The TERF Report https://karadansky.substack.com/p/ffs-lauren-leggieri-3l
Ryan, Benjamin (September 29, 2024). “Stop transing gay kids! Biden Admin Health Official Rachel Levine Interrupted By Protester During Pediatrics Conference Keynote In Orlando. Hazard Ratio https://benryan.substack.com/p/stop-transing-gay-kids-biden-admin
LGBT Courage Coalition (October 31, 2024). An LGBT Courage Coalition Action Update: The Activist, the Journalist, and the Whistleblower. LGBT Courage Coalition https://lgbcouragecoalition.substack.com/p/an-lgbt-courage-coalition-action
Dansky, Kara (August 1, 2023). WDI USA Gender Abolition Tour. The TERF Report https://karadansky.substack.com/p/wdi-usa-gender-abolition-tour
McDonald, Natalie Hope (March 11, 2011). What We Love: Original Tees for Trevor Project. Philadelphia https://www.phillymag.com/2011/03/11/what-we-love-original-tees-for-trevor-project/
Selected anti-trans writing by Leggieri
Leggieri, Lauren (June 10, 2024). No Pride Without Courage. LGB Courage Coalition https://lgbcouragecoalition.substack.com/p/no-pride-without-courage
Media
Jennifer Block (July 8, 2025). Inside the fight over gender treatments in youth. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLyUuW1FjfM
“Carol” (November 6, 2024). Stop Transing Gay Kids: A conversation with activist Lauren Leggieri. Peak Lesbian https://sourpatches2077.substack.com/p/stop-transing-gay-kids alternate url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lti8Vf6I7Y
The Reappearing Lesbian with “Maia Poet” (July 1, 2024). The pressure on lesbians to ‘trans.’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8kRcTez7fU [deleted]
Women’s Declaration International – USA (August 1, 2023). Clip from WDI USA Gender Abolition Tour: Philadelphia Event July 30. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jh7O210EMPY
Resources
Instagram (instagram.com)
Facebook (facebook.com)
X/Twitter (x.com)
GiveSendGo (givesendgo.com)
- givesendgo.com/skrmetti [archive]
LinkedIn (linkedin.com)
Realty.com (realty.com)
- Lauren Leggieri, Empower Real Estate, LLC
- realty.com/real-estate-agents/1545856/lauren_leggieri
Zillow (zillow.com)
- Lauren Leggieri
- zillow.com/profile/lauren4388
LGB Courage Coalition (lgbcouragecoalition.org)
- Leadership
- lgbcouragecoalition.org/about/leadership
Empower Real Estate, LLC (kwempower.com)
- Keller Williams affiliate in Christiana, Delaware
State of Pennsylvania Licensing System (pals.pa.gov)
- Lauren Leggieri, real estate license RS358828 (expired May 31, 2022)