Internet fakes: "transkids.us"

Several excellent and legitimate online resources for transgender children and their families exist:

Unfortunately, a few fake sites have also popped up over the years, and a few people seeking attention or money have claimed to represent TransKids.

Now that computer forensics on the boy2woman.com fakery got that site shut down in late 2006, the next major fake site to vector and expose is transkids.us. Similar investigations in the past have led to the demise of Changez Le Monde and other bogus sites by people claiming to represent young transsexual women.

Most of these sites are by pathetic kooks, trolls, and wannabes, but a few are run by scam artists looking to make money by pretending to be transwomen, or in worst case, sexual predators hoping to gain the trust of young women in our community.

Why fakes are a problem

My concern is that supposedly scientific "experts" like J. Michael Bailey and Anne Lawrence are such poor researchers that it’s unlikely they will verify sources or retract fabrications if the source says something they want to hear. I’d hate to see biographical fabrications become part of Lawrence’s published “narratives” about sexuality in the community.

Both Bailey and Lawrence had links to the "transkids" site within minutes after the site went live on 14 December 2004. They have respectively proclaimed it "thrilling" and "marvelous."

Cast of characters on "transkids.us"

Stay tuned for more/your help needed!

Readers have sent information on Alex, Gogo, and Inoue, the other "transkids." If you have received an email, attachment or photo from someone using these names in 2004 or earlier, please forward it to me for analysis by our investigators. We need to vector and expose this kind of online fakery before more academics like Simon LeVay, James Cantor, and Alice Dreger take them seriously.