 Jerry Leach is the poster-boy for the ex-trans movement and founded Reality Resources where he counseled transgender Christians to become cisgender using reparative therapy. Meanwhile, his wife Charlene counseled their wives. He once sought SRS but says God saved him and healed him from his sinful, transgender desires. This is where Focus and the Family and Exodus directed their trans clients as it is the only organization focused on adults with an unwanted gender identity. Jerry has no education in counseling and is not licensed and even lied about having a PhD. He says his personal testimony gives him all he needs to help others. No scientific study has ever shown a single person can change their gender identity. Jerry does not disagree, admitting that he regularly has transgender feelings but chooses not to act on them using daily prayer. Jerry believes every person should live in the gender they were assigned with at birth, but does not give a Christian or ethical reason but relies on his personal experience. He shows no knowledge for relevant knowledge outside his experience, such as transmen, genderqueer, and intersex people. The vast majority of his clients were bigender. Many of the people and much research he uses to support him actually says the opposite as him.  While
described
as gentle and soft spoken, Jerry was mentally unstable.
Besides making life decisions by lying to his wife, he also
compulsively lied to doctors to convince them that medication would be
healthy, even forging a divorce certificate. He was supposed to be
going through the Real Life Test in which a person lives entirely in
their gender identity to prove their eligibility for medical services;
Jerry only presented as a woman in private and for his doctors whom he
told he was living that way full time. In a fit of rage he
castrated himself and nearly died from blood loss which subsequently
ended
his body's source of testosterone. He was happy to share this history
as anecdotal proof that trans people are psychotic. He never talks
about his mental stability after rejecting transgenderism, but I did
speak with a member of Jerry's immediate family. They believe his
mental instability continued for the past two decades. His writings
reflect both irrationality and incoherence; they only make sense after
several readings. Sometimes he is cool and reasonable; elsewhere he
rages against detractors. He had a poor sense of boundaries, having
poured out the intimacies of his sexuality online to the chagrine of
his family. The decade he spent in a cult is one of the few pieces of
his history off limits. At times he says "I can't really
attest to a complete healing" and consistently explains that while his behavior has changed, he still has his transgender feelings. Elsewhere he offers "not abstinence and maintenance, but total freedom. . . . the Truth sets you
entirely free!" Allegedly, he has frequented gay bars but no one has pulled a John Paulk on him and avoids saying whether he has relapsed into cross-dressing. See Book: The Alternative of Repression Jerry makes a great case study of rejecting transgenderism because we know a lot about him. In brief, he opposes using science; his theology is weak and sometimes heretical; he knowingly gives out false information; his ideas are not consistent. Most telling of all, he shows that all the repression, miraculous visions, and prayer in the world can't convert a person from being transgender to cisgender.
Analysis
Considering Jerry Leach - My own in-depth analysis of Leach's work. The Alternative of Repression - An analysis of whether a trans person can become cisgender, using Jerry as a case study Debate Part 1: Dr. Milazzo Dr. Carol Milazo considers Jerry's causes of transexuality Debate Part 2: Jerry Leach, et al - Jerry responds Debate Part 3: Ephilei - I respond to Jerry Leach's History - Observations about Leach's confusing history Gendertree: Reparative Therapy - A study by GenderTree on whether reparative therapy works on trans people, using Jerry Jerry's Gender I hypothesize on how Leach really does/should identify his gender Lies
Jerry is a prolific liar. We'll never know how many lies he got away with, but here are ones I caught. Leach's Errors and Lies - A collection miscellaneous mistakes he makes and lies he tells Jerry's Education Lies - Jerry falsely claims to have a Ph.D, contradicts what college he attended, and lies about when he was ordained Doctoring Documents - Jerry re-writes the words of others and fabricates a letter Jerry's Pseudonyms - Jerry makes up people for his ideas to sound more popular. Leach: Transsexual Regret Letters - Jerry lies about giving his testimonies background checks and pseudonyms Leach: Reflections on Surgery - Jerry explains for himself his vast web of lies given to his doctors Intersex: Response of Pro-Binary Organizations - Jerry lies that every intersex person has an obvious sex Leach debate part 3 - Jerry lies about the contents of a dozen different studies, making them say the opposite of what they say Renee Richards - Renee is happy with her transition, but Jerry says otherwise Jerry's Writings
Leach's archives - Articles formerly posted on his website Flight toward Woman - Jerry's main booklet
A long interview with Jerry by David Foster Other
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