Copyright
On two issues either Jerry or his webmaster show they don't understand copyright. First, as
explained by Laura herself, Jerry copies an image from another site onto his. Not just any site, but Laura's Playground, a famous transgender website. And not just any image, but Laura's
logo! Laura sets him straight.
Years later, Jerry's webmaster, Stacy, sent messages to three sites that criticize Jerry's claims, transchristians.org,
gendertree.org, and
Zagria's blog, claiming we violate his copyright. Either Jerry or Stacy is just plain stupid, or they tried scaring us for the sake of censoring criticism of him. The affair is explained on
Reality Resources Copyright.
Mother separation
Jerry loves Leanne Payne (and when she's talking about anything but gender, so do I!) and references her often. In A Matter of Survival, aka, Reality Check 4, he quotes her saying (emphasis mine):
The cross-dresser suffers from separation anxiety and gender confusion
related to his failure to make a secure attachment to his mother and thereby gain a strong sense of being or of well-being. This loss has led to a most grievous symbolic confusion in him. The related coping mechanisms (cross-dressing) leave him in the throes of the dread-ridden shame and compulsive behavior.
However, at multiple other times, Jerry says the exact opposite, that little boys are attached themselves strongly to their mother and never let go. Jerry's theories are based on Elizabeth Moberly and echoed by Joseph Nicolosi. When I heard Nicolosi lecture, and repeatedly in his writings, he says that a child begins life with no concept of themself apart from their mother and the first couple years of life involve learning that they are not the same as their mother. Nicolosi says male transgenderism and homosexuality are caused by this failure to disconnect and thus they continue identifying as their female mother instead of their male father. Both ideas are false, but Jerry should at least pick one and stick to it.
Deuteronomy 22.5
In Flight toward Woman, Jerry says that neither Deuteronomy 22:5 nor any other passage of Scripture can be used to condemn transgenderism. Later in the book, page he quotes a client of his who explains how Deut 22 does condemn transgenderism. On his website, he wrote
Scripture doesn’t directly address transsexualism, except in Deut
22:5 (where wearing clothes of the opposite gender is considered an
abomination) and I Cor 6:9 (where male effeminacy and prostitution is
considered enough to banish a person from God’s Kingdom).
First social cross dressing
In Flight
toward Woman, Jerry dramatically tells of meeting with his
psychiatrist, Dr. "Sheila Brownston" in 1987 which he says was the
first time he presented as a woman in front of someone else. However, on page 101 he said he dressed up as a woman as a teenager (the 1950s).
As I became an older teenager, I often penetrated the world of women in their favorite domain, shopping for articles of clothing of my very own. It was so satisfying to be accepted by both female and male clerks. . . . I passionately pursued ways to emulate women, learning how to converse with them "woman to woman."
Height
I was 5'11", over 200 pounds. (Jennifer or Jerry?)
My five-foot-ten frame seemed to tower above his. (Matter of Survival)
Am I getting too picky? He has motivation to bend the truth: In the first story he's emphasizing his masculine appearance, that it looked strange that a tall male would feel female. In the second, he's emphasizing his lack of masculine physique (although the average American male is only 5'9") contrasting his masculine attitude.
I sometimes annoy myself because I insist on being fair, "fairer than fair." So I must include that Jerry could actually be 5'10" and a half and he sometimes rounds up and sometimes down when it suits him. So it's not exactly lying, just bending the facts.
Requirements for Healing
From Transcendent Christ Transgender Christians:
There is no official study of people who try to change their gender
identity but Jerry offers some fuzzy numbers. “We have evidenced a huge
success rate, nearly 80% among those who want to change.”45 When we
examine change in sexual orientation, we'll see the even promoters
don't claim this much success. In a private email, Jerry contradicts
himself.
We have noted that 90% of those who have met with him for at least a
two year period remain fully integrated and emotionally intact in their
birth-gender roles. Those who have worked with him for over 4 years
ascribe to a 100% success rate; “success” being understood as the
elimination of former desires to dress like or emulate the false
feminine identity.
The required length of therapy also changes. He himself went from scheduling surgery in September 1988 to counseling others by December or earlier - a matter of months!. Other times, he says as long as “5-8 years.”47 But none of these claims can be true since Jerry himself has not healed after 20 years!
Jerry claims to have worked with “thousands” of transgender people. Estimate the minimum of 100 people per year, with each person finishing after one year, at a cheap $85/hour, and Jerry would have made over $440,000 per year or $8.8 million dollars over twenty years. That's not counting the people he counsels for their romantic orientation and sexual addiction. Either Jerry is capitalizing off misfortunes or he's exaggerating, yet again.
