Rene Jax is an American author and ex-transgender activist. Jax gets money and attention by making it harder for others to get trans healthcare.
Background
note: none of this biographical information has been independetly confirmed.
Jax was reportedly born in 1955: In another source, Jax claimed to be born in 1953 or 1954: “In 1977, I was a 23-year-old man working at De Anza College in California.” In another source, Jax is described as age 60 in 2018, which Jax also stated in a profile. Jax reportedly is the youngest of three siblings and grew up in a conservative family.
According to a deleted Substack post by Jax: “I had struggled with being a man since my father died when I was 14. He couldn’t deal with my mother’s mental illness, and he flew the coup [sic] after years of fighting the urge to do so. Suddenly I was her caretaker, her nurse, her parent, and sadly her lover.” Jax’s birth parent was reportedly a patient at The Colorado Mental Health Hospital in Fort Logan, in Denver, Colorado. While accompanying this parent at age 14, Jax reportedly read The Transsexual Phenomenon by Harry Benjamin.
Jax claimed to have gone on hormones “when I was 17.” Jax reportedly moved to San Francisco around age 20. Jax reportedly made a social transition in around 1977: “The tipping point for me was when my wife left me for another woman.” After coming out, Jax’s birth parent reportedly cut off all contact and remained unsupportive until dying.
In 1980, Jax was reportedly sworn in as a San Francisco Patrol Special Officer in San Francisco’s Castro District and has claimed to be “the first transgender cop.” Historian Zagria Cowan notes that there were a number of trans police officers prior to 1980. Jax claims to have experienced discrimination over the next three years from other officers and had to work without a backup. This reportedly led to an injury from a drug addict that left Jax “unable to walk for six months.”
Jax left the job and was reportedly homeless. Jax claims to have worked as a dominatrix and got addicted to crack cocaine.
According to an article by ex-trans activist Walt Heyer, Jax “had gender-change surgery from male-to-female (MTF) in 1980.” However, according to Jax, “After 12 years of cross living, I eventually went all in and in 1990 had a complete sex change.” Jax reported being a patient of Stanley Biber for bottom surgery and having top surgery in 1992.
Ex-trans activism
Around 2016, Jax began expressing regret and urging others not to make a gender transition. That year, Jax self-published a book titled Don’t Get on the Plane! Sex Change Surgery will Ruin Your Life.
In 2017, Jax spoke at a Gender Identity Forum panel at Cornerstone Church in New Hampshire after testifying at the New Hampshire legislature. In the introduction, the moderator said Jax “worked for 25 years as a project manager for software, mostly for banks.” In the speech, Jax claims that the trans suicide attempt rate is about 50%: “every other person.”
In 2018, Jax testified in the California Senate Judiciary Committee against AB 2119, a bill to provide trans healthcare for foster children. In 2018, Jax appeared with ex-trans activists Billy Burleigh and Walt Heyer in the short documentary Detransition: I Want My Sex Back.
In around 2018, Jax launched a website on Bravenet that was later deleted. In 2019, Jax was corresponding with the network of anti-trans and ex-trans activists later exposed by Elisa Shupe. In 2021, Jax launched the website Life After Gender. In June 2022, Jax began blogging about ex-trans topics at renejax.com. In 2023, Jax launched a Substack that was later deleted.
In 2025, Jax signed an anti-transgender FDA petition on feminizing hormones as an “impacted patient.”
Anti-trans coverage
Staff report (September 13, 2018). ‘It was wrong to cut off my male anatomy’: people who regret sex change surgery (PHOTOS). RT https://rtd.rt.com/stories/transgender-regret/
Heyer, Walt (November 16, 2017). While Three Transgenders Celebrate Election Victories, Detransitioners Tell A Different Story. The Federalist https://thefederalist.com/2017/11/16/three-transgenders-celebrate-election-victories-detransitioners-tell-different-story/
Selected writing by Jax
Jax, Rene (February 12, 2026). Letter to the editor: Media will try to bury trans angle of Tumbler shooting. Washington Times https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/feb/12/letter-editor-media-try-bury-trans-angle-tumbler-shooting/
Jax, Rene (July 15, 2025). I spent 38 years living as a transgender woman, and it was a mistake. Washington Times https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jul/15/spent-38-years-living-transgender-woman-mistake/
Jax, Rene (February 25, 2024). Buy your gender tickets here. https://renejax.substack.com/p/buy-your-gender-tickets-here
Media
Washington Times with Kelly Sadler and Rene Jax (July 19, 2025). Politically Unstable: Seeing through the cracks of the fallacy of sex change. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zunBx-kvEhc Transcript https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jul/19/politically-unstable-seeing-cracks-fallacy-sex-change/
REALWOMEN/REALSTORIES with Billy Burleigh, Rene Jax, and Walt Heyer (released 2018, posted December 9, 2022). Detransition: I Want My Sex Back (Directed by Artyom Vorobey). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3D8OyCT7ac
California Family Council (July 6, 2018). Transwoman testifies against puberty blockers for CA Foster Kids. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTyV6s9Lg4c
nhcornerstone with Stephanie Curry, David Pickup, and Rene Jax (December 5, 2017). Rene Jax at Gender Identity Forum in Manchester, New Hampshire. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lN0sT6bHjR8
Books
Jax, Rene (2025). Memoirs of the First Transgender Cop. Independently published, ASIN B0FHJF46TL
Jax, Rene (2024). Transgender Killers: The Monsters that Walk among Us. Independently published, ASIN B0DGJT7B7S
Jax, Rene (2022). Dark Ages 2.0 : A Survivor’s Guide to Life after America. Ocean of Dreams Publishing, ASIN B0B9V7QQFT
Jax, Rene (2021). Smelling the Barn: A Novel about Coming Home. Independently published, ISBN 979-8695260120
Jax, Rene (2020). A world of Feral Children: How technology replaced parents and is changing the face of civilization. Independently published, ASIN B08R5ZN17G
Jax, Rene (2018). The Complete History of the Second American Civil War 2024 – 2030. Ocean of Dreams Publishing, ASIN B07K472B1B
Jax, Rene (2016). Don’t Get on the Plane! Sex Change Surgery will Ruin Your Life. CreateSpace, ISBN 978-1541064461
- also published as Jax, Rene (2017). Misled by Doctors: How a Sex Change Ruined My Life, Don’t Get on the Plane! CreateSpace, ISBN 978-1548007362
Jax, Rene (2015). It’s Who We Are, It’s What We Do: An essay on the nature of human violence and why it is essential to human family structure. CreateSpace, ISBN 978-1517433307
Jax, Rene (2013). The Soulful Traveler. CreateSpace, ISBN 978-1490354484
Jax, Rene (2013). Altza Moorin and the Cave of the Black Heart (The Altza Moorin trilogy). [collected trilogy] CreateSpace, ISBN 978-1480220935
Jax, Rene (2013). Altza Moorin and the Green Gill Dragons. CreateSpace, ISBN 978-1481127257
- also published as Jax, Rene (2013). Altza Moorin and the Green Gill Dragons, Book 1. Rene Jax Books, ASIN‎ B006K3I2V0
Jax, Rene (2012). 56 Sanchez. CreateSpace, ISBN 978-1468195743
Resources
Rene Jax (renejax.com)
Life After Gender (lifeaftergender.com)
Substack (substack.com)
- substack.com/@renejax [deleted]
- Rene Jax
- renejax.substack.com [deleted]
Bravesites (bravesites.com)
- renejax.bravesites.com [deleted]