April Kitzul is a Canadian anti-transgender activist.
Background
April Kitzul was an Institutional Parole Officer and Correctional Program Officer in sex-segregated facilities at Correctional Service Canada until 2022. Previously, Kitzul was a provincial child protection social worker, serving as a case manager at Atlas Institute for Veterans and Families
Anti-transgender activism
Kitzul waas radicalized in following passage of An Act to amend the Canadian Human Rights Act and the Criminal Code. It was introduced in Canada as Bill C-16 in 2016.
In 2021, Kitzul created the website Trans-Truth.
Kitzul is a member of Canadian Womenâs Sex-Based Rights (caWsbar) and is involved in the Women’s Human Rights Campaign (BC-Yukon Coordinator).
References
Kitzul, April (February 8, 2023). Reflections on the impact of gender self-identification policies in the Canadian correctional system. MLI https://macdonaldlaurier.ca/reflections-on-the-impact-of-gender-self-identification-policies-in-the-canadian-correctional-system/
-https://www.ourcommons.ca/Content/Committee/432/JUST/Brief/BR11006176/br-external/WomensHumanRightsCampaignBritishColumbiaAndYukonChapter-e.pdf
Resources
Trans Truth (trans-truth.com)
Twitter (twitter.com)
Rod Fleming is a Scottish author and activist who promotes anti-transgender, anti-feminist, and anti-gay views. Fleming personifies nearly every negative stereotype of a transphobic trans-attracted person.
Fleming is one of the most obsessive “autogynephilia” activists in the world, promoting the disease as an exercise in identity politics.
Background
Roderick Anthony “Rod” Fleming was born on March 11, 1956, in Dundee, Scotland.
Fleming earned a bachelor’s degree from Edinburgh College of Art in 1983, then produced images and video for Scotland on Sunday. In 2011, Fleming earned a master’s degree from Dundee University.
Fleming was married and has four adult children. Fleming moved to Asia and was romantically involved with a trans partner named Sam Villasencio. Fleming announced that Villasencio died on October 2, 2023.
âAutogynephiliaâ activism
Some trans-attracted people who engage in “autogynephilia” activism wish to distance their own attractions from trans women they consider âautogynephiles.â In some cases, it is because they see âAGPâ trans women as a threat to their âheterosexualâ identity. They often brag about how âheterosexualâ they are and how the “homosexual transsexualâ people they desire are extremely feminine and only interested in masculine âheterosexualâ partners like them.
Trans-attracted people who use the terms “homosexual transsexualâ or “HSTS” are among the most obsessed with “autogynephilia” and creator Ray Blanchardâs taxonomy of “HSTS” and “AGP,” because itâs so important to their own sexual identities.
Fleming offers counseling for “autogynephiles” and for “trans widows,” slang for spouses whose partner came out as trans.
Resources
Rod Fleming (rodfleming.com)
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Plashmill Press (plashmill-press.com)
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Threads (threads.net)
Sally Chatterton is a British writer and anti-transgender extremist. Chatterton is editor of anti-trans publication UnHerd and is responsible for its consistent platforming of conservative and anti-trans voices.
Background
Chatterton earned a bachelor’s degree from Birmingham University in 1994 and earned a master’s degree from Institut Britannique, Paris in 1995.
Chatterton previously wrote for The Daily Telegraph and The Independent.
Chatterton was website editor for CapX, a publication of the right-wing Centre for Policy Studies.
Anti-transgender activism
Chatterton joined UnHerd in 2018. Chatterton has platformed dozens of conservative and anti-trans writers, including personally platforming Hannah Barnes and Kathleen Stock in attacks on trans healthcare for our children.
Media
Sally Chatterton (March 2, 2023). Hannah Barnes: What went wrong at the Tavistock Centre. UnHerd https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7ZqW6MxWxs
Sally Chatterton (October 19, 2023). Kathleen Stock: Inside Britain’s new trans clinics. UnHerd https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QboHWVDCyDQ
Resources
UnHerd (unherd.com)
LinkedIn (linkedin.com)
Twitter (twitter.com)
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Muck Rack (muckrack.com)
Paul Marshall is a British investor and anti-transgender activist. In 2017, Marshall gave funding to anti-transgender publication UnHerd.
Background
Paul Roderick Clucas Marshall was born on August 2, 1959. Marshall’s parent Alan was an executive based in the Philippines, but Marshall remained in England for school. Marshall earned degrees from St John’s College, Oxford and INSEAD.
In 1997 Marshall and Ian Wace founded a successful hedge fund. After many years supporting policies of Liberal Democrats, Marshall began funding conservative projects, including anti-trans publication UnHerd and anti-trans platform GB News.
Marshall and spouse Sabrina have two adult children.
Resources
Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)
Tom McTague is a British writer who works for anti-trans publication UnHerd. McTague previously worked at anti-trans publication The Atlantic from 2019 to 2023.
Background
McTague grew up in County Durham in the North East England. McTague, spouse, and child live in London.
McTague has also worked at Mail Online, the Independent on Sunday, and the Daily Mirror.
McTague co-authored the 2017 election book, Betting the House.
Resources
Twitter (twitter.com)
LinkedIn (linkedin.com)
Tim Montgomerie is a British writer and conservative activist. Montgomerie founded anti-trans publication UnHerd.
Background
Timothy “Tim” Montgomerie was born on July 24, 1970 in Barnstaple, Devon. Montgomerie’s conservative views as a teen were shaped by Thatcherism and evangelical Christianity. While enrolled at University of Exeter, Montgomerie and David Burrowes founded the Conservative Christian Fellowship. Montgomerie led the organization from 1990 to 2003.
In 2004 Montgomerie co-founded conservative think tank The Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) with Iain Duncan Smith, Mark Florman and Philippa Stroud. In 2005 Montgomerie founded right-wing blog ConservativeHome and has since held numerous roles at British media outlets.
Montgomerie founded anti-trans publication UnHerd in 2017 and left in 2018.
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James Morandini is an Australian psychologist and “autogynephilia” activist.
Do not go to Morandini for therapy of any kind. Instead look for supportive local resources where practitioners do not promote unscientific ideas like “autogynephilia” or “autoandrophilia.”
Background
James Simon Morandini earned a bachelor’s degree in 2009 from University of Newcastle and a doctorate from University of Sydney in 2016. Morandini is the founder and director of King Street Psychology, the largest private gender clinic in Australia.
Morandini is the National Convener of the Australian Psychological Society Gender & Sexuality Interest group. Morandini is also a psychologist at The Gender Centre, founding a clinical psychology internship while there “to ensure the next generation of clinical psychs are trained in evidence based and culturally competent gender care.”
Anti-transgender activism
Morandini is an activist in the “autogynephilia” and “autoandrophilia” movements. These transphobic sex-fueled mental illnesses were created in 1989 and are supported by a small group of activists from sexology’s conservative fringe. Morandini claims to be interested in “understanding and destigmatising trans women/non-binary femmes who experience autogynephilia/autoheterosexuality.”
At the 2023 Puzzles of Sexual Orientation meeting, Morandini presented research titled “Bisexual Phenomena Among Autogynephilic Men.”
In 2023 Morandini led an online panel of prominent “autogynephilia” activists, including Anne Lawrence, “Strawberry Lemonade Kristina,” Kevin Hsu, J. Michael Bailey, and “Phil Illy.”
2023 correspondence
On October 26, 2023, Morandini respectfully requested that this page be removed or revised. The reasons mentioned included Morandini’s therapeutic support for hundreds of gender diverse adolescents and supportive involvement in trans-led organizations. My response is below.
Thank you for your message. The term “autogynephilia” is transphobic in the same way “nymphomania” is misogynistic. The issue is not the phenomenon, but your reification of an idea that is at its core biased and thus unscientific.
It took feminist activists over a century to convince misogynistic and biased scientists to stop using the term “nymphomania” because it is unscientific. It has taken trans activists and scientist allies decades to convince transphobes to stop using the term “autogynephilia.” You are one of the last holdouts.
I understand that some people have latched onto “autogynephile” as an identity the way some women latched onto “nymphomaniac” as an identity. “Autogynephilia” as a term appeals to a very specific type of person: neurodiverse, fixated on collecting and categorizing, socially isolated/eccentric, rigid thinking. That makes it very hard for them to let go of bad ideas, in the way it’s hard to convince believers that horoscopes or Myers-Briggs types are unscientific. It helps them make sense of the world, and they “see themselves” in the scheme.
Via Ekins and King (2012):
[Anne] Lawrence says that on reading Blanchardâs journal articles that she experienced the âkind of epiphany that trans people often feel when first coming across words and formulations that fit and work for themâ (Lawrence 1999a). Not only do they feel empowered to make sense of their predicament, but the formulations are proof to them that they are not alone.
People have invested their lives in this bad idea, and they succumb to the sunk cost fallacy rather than entertain the idea they might be mistaken about something so deeply important to them.
I know there is hope for someone like you. Even transphobic sexologists walked away from “erotic target location error” because of its obvious bias, replacing it with “identity inversion.” The issue is not the phenomenon, but the term. “Paraphilia” in general and “autogynephilia” in particular are based on a disease model that impedes scientific progress.
I have written extensively about value-neutral alternatives proposed by scientists and activists:
- genderplay or gender play (used since middle 20th century)
- crossdreaming (proposed by Jack Molay)
- interest in feminization and interest in masculinization (proposed by Andrea James)
- female embodiment fantasies and male embodiment fantasies (proposed by Julia Serano)
- erotic femaling and erotic maling (proposed by Richard Ekins and Dave King)
- Tiresian fantasies (proposed by Will Powers)
I have also written extensively about value-neutral terms used by these communities to describe themselves, like fujoshi and sissy. The issue is not the phenomenon, but the biased term you are using.
Science proceeds through definitional refinement, and activism is an important part of guiding science toward value-neutral terminology.
If you are interested in learning about the bleak future of “autogynephilia” and its proponents, I recommend Nymphomania: A History by Carol Groneman.
I have spoken at The Gender Centre and consider it an important resource. I hope for the sake of your career and legacy that you reconsider your allegiance to a transphobic cult within sexology and within the community of sex and gender minorities.
References
Morandini, James (June 18, 2024). Understanding gender dysphoria. ReachOut Australia https://au.reachout.com/identity/gender/understanding-gender-dysphoria
Media
Kristina Anj (July 11, 2023). Transgender In A Blender: Episode 3 – Youth Is Not Wasted On The Young with James Morandini. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMvNkGQCogs [deleted]
Gender & Sexuality Symposiums (August 25, 2023) âBecoming what we loveâ ETII Symposium: 25th August, 2023. https://vimeo.com/873801601
Morandini, James (February 17, 2024). A Gender Affirming Approach to the Topic of Autogynephilia and Autogynephilic Gender Dysphoria. Gender & Sexuality Symposiums https://vimeo.com/914072332
Lawrence, Anne (January 22, 2024). Dr. Anne Lawrence interviews Dr. Morandini: AGP Orientation & Gender Dysphoria, a Clinical Overview. Gender Wars Podcast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40PaiUmIRf4
Resources
James Morandini (jamesmorandini.com)
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- James Morandini
- https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=lJF4kmQAAAAJ&hl
Angelo Vincent De Boni is a psychologist and anti-transgender activist. De Boni is involved with anti-trans organization Genspect.
Background
De Boni was born in 1973 and grew up with a sibling in a first-generation Italian immigrant Catholic family in apartheid South Africa. De Boni was suicidal as an adolescent due to a strained relationship with an abusive parent:
- “my abusive, emotionally detached father”
- “an abusive dysfunctional father”
- “At 15, I was brutally attacked by my father”
- “my violent, detached father.”
- (De Boni (2019)
De Boni states that at age 15 “I was attacked again by my older, remorseless brother in front of my girlfriend.” Deboni also states “I became an adolescent alcoholic at 15.”
De Boni graduated from South Africa’s National School of the Arts in 1991 but remained deeply unhappy, including a complicated relationship with food:
I also abused porn, socialised recklessly and even shared an apartment with a friend who was gay, but also a kleptomaniac and occasional transvestite. I deflected from my emotions with alcohol again for the second time in my life.
Deboni (2023)
After working in advertising, De Boni opened Angelo’s Kitchen in Johannesburg in 2000. De Boni returned to school about 20 years later, earning a bachelor’s degree from SACAP (The South African College of Applied Psychology) in 2021. De Boni maintains practices in Johannesburg and Sundsvall, Sweden. De Boni’s name has been styled several ways:
- Angelo Vincent De Boni
- Angelo Vincent Deboni
- Angelo Vincenzo De Boni
- Vincent De Boni
- Vincent Deboni
- Angelo De Boni
- Angelo Deboni
Anti-transgender activism
De Boni is involved in the men’s rights movement, is a Jungian psychologist, and practices “male psychology.” De Boni has promoted a number of other anti-trans activists:
There are new brave voices in this debate. Research is improving our knowledge of gender detransitioning and the effects of social media on social contagion as described in Irreversible Damage (Shrier, 2020). This book details how young girls are lured by the trans trend on social media to transition permanently to boys, often undergoing detrimental chemical and surgical intervention to their development (Shrier, 2020). Another controversial book The End of Gender (Soh, 2020) by sexologist and neuroscientist Debra Soh, clarifies the science behind gender and warns of the pressures to comply with the narrative of gender being socially constructed.
De Boni (2021)
De Boni has presented to the Critical Therapy Antidote network, published with Psychreg and Male Psychology Network UK.
De Boni has appeared on anti-trans podcasts including Benjamin Boyce and Third Factor. De Boni co-hosted the TransPsyche podcast with ex-trans activist Laura Becker.
Deboni is also an “autogynephilia” activist, citing work by Debra Soh, Jaco Van Zyl from Critical Therapy Antidote, David Buss, Joe Burgo, and Jordan Peterson.
We must ask what is the function of AGP behaviour? I believe it succeeds in one critical area; it provides much needed relief from the shame and guilt of overwhelming sexual urges, however distorted this relief is. It could help to avoid engaging in mating strategies at all, a way to survive a world where all mate-seeking strategies have been made problematic, supercharged by exposure to porn. In the wake of the #metoo movement, who would blame young men from being terrified of any âtoxicâ traits they may inadvertently present? The auto-gynephile succeeds in deflecting all risk related to sexually charged encounters. He transforms himself from aggressor, potential perpetrator, to a self-satisfying sexual singularity. He is rewarded in a transhumanist society.
Deboni (2023)
De Boni became involved with Genspect in 2023.
References
Deboni, Vincent (August 14, 2023). Are Gen Z Males Deflecting Masculinity by Developing a Paraphilia? Psychreg https://www.psychreg.org/gen-z-males-deflecting-masculinity-developing-paraphilia/
De Boni, AV (2019) A male perspective of psychology from the Rainbow Nation. Psychreg Journal of Psychology https://doi.org/fk3n https://www.pjp.psychreg.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/de-boni-151-167.pdf
Deboni, Angelo Vincenzo (March 2022). A Post Covid-19 Scoping Review of Literature on Males in Mental Health Crisis.
Resources
LinkedIn (linkedin.com)
Psychology Today (psychologytoday.com)
- Angelo Vincent Deboni
- https://www.psychologytoday.com/za/counselling/angelo-vincent-deboni-randburg-gt/1127064
Therapy Route (therapyroute.com)
- Angelo Deboni
- https://www.therapyroute.com/therapist/angelo-deboni-sundsvall-sweden
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Note: this profile originally misstated De Boni’s family history of alcohol use. Transgender Map regrets the error.
In response to this profile, De Boni stated on X:
I am absolutely NOT involved in the Men’s Rights Movement! The author, Andrea James clearly does not know the difference between male psychology as a field of study vs the MRA movement. What garbage. Apparently writing an article on AGP makes me an AGP activist?? And my father was NOT an alcoholic. More evidence of #gammabias by ignorant neurotics. My concern is, and always has been, the mental health of anyone crippled by fear, dysphoria and anxiety. This ‘map’ demands I ‘pick a side’ in political matters related to trans-ideology, in the sense that it is an ideology yes, I am against it being promoted by political opportunists and online groomers, but to say I am anti-trans suggests I blame trans people for this, I DO NOT! They are in-fact victims of a cruel world. Besides that, I am happy they are platforming my entire profile for people who ARE sick of trans-ideology.
De Boni (November 8, 2023)
Jessie Mannisto is an American consultant and anti-transgender activist. Mannisto is executive editor at anti-trans organization Genspect.
Background
Jessie Louise Mannisto was born on May 31, 1982 to parents Keith and Anne and grew up in Northridge, Michigan with a younger sibling, Emily. Mannisto earned a bachelor’s degree from Kalamazoo College in 2004, followed by a master’s degree from University of Michigan in 2011. Mannisto speaks Japanese and has spent time in Japan. From 2011 to 2013 Mannisto worked at the Japanese Consulate in Detroit, then at the CIA as an analyst from 2013 to 2017.
In 2018 Mannisto began working as a freelance consultant and researcher.
Anti-trans activism
In 2017 Mannisto founded Third Factor, a publication “for creative and intellectually engaged people.” In a 2019 Third Factor article, Mannisto first “publicly questioned gender identity and its apparent over-representation among those identified as gifted.” In this piece, Mannisto promoted several controversial ideas and people:
Lisa Littman and “rapid onset gender dysphoria” (ROGD)
The conservative and ex-transgender movements:
In 2023 Genspect announced that Mannisto would moderate a panel at their Denver conference titled “Not your mom: Women resisting gender ideology.” Scheduled panelists include Heather Heying, Carrie Mendoza, Stella OâMalley, Nina Paley, and Carole Hooven.
References
Mannisto, Jessie (January 19, 2019). Where Intensity and Gender Dysphoria Meet. Third Factor https://www.thirdfactor.org/intensity-gender-dysphoria/
-https://www.casterlinefuneralhome.com/obituary/5112275
Resources
LinkedIn (linkedin.com)
Pamela Paresky is an American psychologist and anti-transgender activist.
Background
Pamela Beth Prestyn Paresky was born on February 16, 1967 to David Paresky and Linda Sue (Kotzen) Paresky.
Paresky earned a bachelor’s degree from Columbia University in 1990, a master’s degree from Pepperdine University in 1994, and a doctorate from University of Chicago in 2005.
Paresky was an aspiring actor and musician. Paresky met and married Hugh Zuker, and they moved to Aspen, Colorado. Zuker became a sheriff’s deputy in Aspen, the president of Mountain Rescue Aspen, and a victim of Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme. They have one adult child, Jared Aiden Zuker (born 1999).
As Pamela Zuker, Paresky authored the 2010 book A Year of Kindness.
Anti-transgender activism
Paresky has served as a Senior Fellow at the Network Contagion Research Institute and as primary researcher for The Coddling of the American Mind by anti-trans activists Greg Lukianoff of FIRE and Jonathan Haidt of Heterodox Academy.
On Substack, Paresky promoted many of the usual suspects, including:
References
Gardner-Smith, Brent (December 18, 2017). Citing âvitriol,â Zuker drops out
of sheriffâs race. Aspen Daily News https://www.aspendailynews.com/citing-vitriol-zuker-drops-out-of-sheriff-s-race/article_c685d182-8017-5626-b2d8-c7c84f2e2c0d.html
-https://www.panix.com/~chris/notes.htm
Green, Emma (May 17, 2023). A Club for the Cancelled. The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-local-correspondents/the-party-is-cancelled
Paresky, Pamela (May 4, 2022). The Op-Ed That Went Viral And The Trans Woman Who Wrote It. Habits of a Free Mind https://paresky.substack.com/p/the-op-ed-that-went-viral-and-the
Paresky, Pamela (July 30, 2022). Europe Becomes More Cautious About Pediatric Gender Medicine While California Doubles Down. Habits of a Free Mind https://paresky.substack.com/p/europe-becomes-more-cautious-about
Resources
Twitter (twitter.com)
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-zuker.org
-https://web.archive.org/web/20230000000000*/aYearofKindness.com
-https://multigenerationalconsulting.com/
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