What you said fits exactly what I have seen again and again in her videos. It makes perfect sense. I already got to the following conclusion a while ago: either she plays dumb,
really dumb, or she wrote her PhD with little to no understanding of what she is writing, because no way this woman has the understanding a PhD is supposed to require in this subject if her YouTube channel is any indication to go by.
She rarely brings up actual studies, and when she does she does it in a very unprofessional and biased way - only telling the parts she thinks support her claims without giving the whole context of the article, which actually tells a whole different story with completely different conclusions, and she doesn't even bother to tell you the full name of the article, the name of the authors or link to it. Nada. You are supposed to blindly believe her, which her fans obviously do. She sometimes say she doesn't disclose the name of the article or give link because she "doesn't want to let transphobic misinformation more exposure". Maria MacLachlan, in her YouTube channel
Peak Trans has a few videos in which she tries to track the articles Jamie is talking about and tell what they are really about- what they tried to prove, the method and the actual conclusions, plus providing the links to these articles.
Jamie's constant twisting of studies and giving partial information makes me wonder if she even fully understands what these articles are saying. It seriously looks like a case of academic illiteracy. I know she is an advocate and
activist and therefore is prone to lie and present things in a very biased way, but still I get the sense that she doesn't even fully understands herself what she is talking about, like she doesn't know how to read these articles properly, as someone who has PhD should. Like she understands these articles in a very shallow way and doesn't fully understand the methodologies used, or how the sample's size and population effect the conclusions you can draw from the article. My guess is that it's a combination of the two - she is purposely misleading, but also doesn't fully understand these articles at the same time.
Apart from the few times Jamie attempts to use her
expertise on the subject, she only ever raises the most worn out false statistics, for example repeatedly mention the lie of 1% regret rate of transition, without providing any evidence or say from where she took this figure. Other than that, she just repeating the mantras "trans women are women, trans men are men, every trans person deserves gender affirming care" etc. etc. over and over again, the most basic TRA "arguments". Her many logical fallacies and lack of evidence are also called out by
King Critical. All of this doesn't prevent her from claiming to be an expert on the subject when it suits or, or her fan children to refer to her as on an authority on the subject.