Jamie Reed

Jamie Reed is one of the first public whistleblowers from a pediatric gender clinic in the United States. Her explosive first person account, “I thought I was saving trans kids, Now I am blowing the whistle” was published in The Free Press in February 2023. The story traveled the globe.

Jamie is now the Executive Director and Co-Founder of the LGBT Courage Coalition, an American based nonprofit of LGBT adults seeking to reform youth gender medicine. The LGBT Courage Coalition seeks to impact culture and medicine to accept and support gender non-conformity in a non-medicalized way.

Jamie is an accomplished public speaker and has been interviewed and profiled in The New York Times, the podcasts Triggernometry, Gender: A Wider Lens, and Transparency. She has spoken at numerous conferences including Genspect: The Bigger Picture in Colorado, at the International Perspectives on Evidence- Based Treatment for Gender-Dysphoric Youth in New York, and Psychotherapeutic Process with Young People Experiencing Gender Dysphoria in Tampere, Finland.

Jamie is a gay woman and the foster and adoptive parent of five boys. She holds a Master of Science in Clinical Research from Washington University in St. Louis and a bachelor’s degree in Cultural Anthropology.