Jenn Ross is a Canadian software developer and “autogynephilia” activist. Ross is involved in the transkids.us hoax website, allegedly written by transgender youth. Ross made a gender transition around age 30, was about 35 when transkids.us went online, and turned 50 years old in 2019.
Background
Jennifer E. âJennâ Ross was born November 11, 1969. Ross was associated with Algonquin College in Ottawa, Ontario and had computer businesses based in Toronto for many years. Ross’ online ventures have included IMN Internet Services, NetDesign Network Holdings, Inc., and Yallery.com. Ross has also served as Chief Technology Officer at GW Hannaway and Associates in Boulder, Colorado.
Ross’ vaginoplasty in the late 1990s was funded by the Ontario Health Insurance Plan, which means itâs very likely Ross participated in the regressive programs at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) in order to get healthcare. Most adults in Toronto avoid CAMH and use private providers, leaving as the primary clientele those adults who enjoyed the humiliation of regressive CAMH policies. Ray Blanchard, a CAMH psychologist at the time, has written about the âmale gender dysphorics, paedophiles, and fetishistsâ they see in their clinic. Blanchard has said about patients like Jenn Ross, âA man without a penis has certain disadvantages in this world, and this is in reality what youâre creating.â Thatâs why anyone who could avoid CAMH went elsewhere.
Transkids.us hoax
While living in Boulder, Colorado, Ross was involved in developing transkids.us prior to its December 2004 publication. Like site owner and notorious troll Denise Magner (also known as Denise Tree and Kiira Triea), Ross is a Linux expert and makes a living as a computer technician and web developer. Magner was 54 years old when the transkids.us hoax site went live.
Ross was one of the key people who comprised 85% of all transkids.us visits prior to the siteâs publication. Transkids.us had 122 visits from Rossâ Boulder ISP prior to December 2004, as well as traffic from the Amsterdam-based IP associated with one of Ross’ businesses.
To date, participants identified by name do not embody the self-identity which transkids.us allegedly represents (âhomosexual transsexuals,â which they abbreviate HSTS). The front page of transkids.us states:
Our purpose in making this website is to make the voices of transkids, homosexual transsexuals, directly accessable. We prefer to speak about our lives and issues ourselves and we are not helped by having our lives and issues represented and re-interpretted by non-homosexual transsexuals whose histories, motivations, etiology and personal understanding of their transsexuality is different from our own. [emphasis mine]
According to the site, âtranskids.us is written by hsts and is about homosexual transsexuality.â Proponents of this term claim this âtypeâ of trans woman is ânaturally feminineâ from early on, and exhibits âearly, extreme, and effortless femininity.â Sexologist Ray Blanchard claims there is a close relation between computer nerdiness and âautogynephilia,â a sex-fueled mental illness he created. In fact, Blanchard supporter J. Michael Bailey considers Jenn Rossâ occupation as a computer expert to be a key indicator that someone is not a âhomosexual transsexualâ under their taxonomy.
Trans people as a group vehemently oppose the term âhomosexual transsexualâ and its pejorative baggage, because it identifies trans people by their sex assigned at birth rather than by their gender identity. The term is mainly used by a few old-school sexology holdouts in Toronto and their supporters.
After Denise Magner died in 2012, “autogynephilia” activist Candice Brown Elliott took over the hoax site at age 55.
References
Collison, Ken (March 30, 1995) Tea Party Time: Tea party concert broadcast on the internet. Humber Et Cetera https://library.humber.ca/digital-archive/sites/default/files/coven/Mar30_95_Vol27_No24.pdf
Resources
“Transkids” (transkids.us)
Twitter (twitter.com)
Mastodon (mastodon.social)
Octodon (octodon.social)
LinkedIn (linkedin.com)
- https://linkedin.com/in/jennr/ [deleted]
- https://linkedin.ca/in/jennr/ [deleted]
Jenn Ross (jenn.com) [archive]
Jenn Ross (jennlog.com) [archive]
NetDesign (netdesign.com) [archive]
Yallery (yallery.com) [archive]