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.
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.
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.
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:
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.
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.
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.
De Boni, AV (2019) A male perspective of psychology from the Rainbow Nation. Psychreg Journal of Psychologyhttps://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.
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.
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:
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.
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
Pareskyhas 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:
Marco Del Giudice is an American psychologist and anti-transgender activist.
Background
Del Giudice attended University of Turin, earning a bachelor’s degree in 2003 and a master’s degree in 2007.
Del Giudice taught at University of Turin from 2007 to 2014 and at University of New Mexico from 2014 to 2023. In 2023 Del Giudice began teaching at University of Trieste.
Anti-transgender activism
Del Giudice is an evolutionary psychologist and sex segregationist keen on shoring up the idea of sex differences.
In 2023, Del Giudice appeared with anti-trans activist Debra Soh and conservative trans activist Buck Angel on a show about “The Scientific Realities of Biological Sex” hosted by evolutionary psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman.
Also in 2023, Del Giudice and Paul Golding of the Santa Fe Boys Foundation organizaed an event called The Big Conversation about sex/gender differences.
IN 2024, the Italian Ministry of Health convened a panel on trans healthcare guidelines. The panel includes Del Giudice and other prominent skeptics of gender-affirming medical interventions for minors, including ethicist Assunta Morresi and journalist Sarantis Thanopulos.
Marco Mattei, Capo di Gabinetto del Ministro della salute, con funzioni di Coordinatore;
Assunta Morresi, Vice Capo di Gabinetto della Ministra per la famiglia, la natalitĂ e le pari opportunitĂ ;
Maria Rosaria Campitiello, Capo della Segreteria tecnica del Ministro della salute;
Giulia Ferrari, Vice Capo di Gabinetto del Ministro della salute;
Alfonso Peluso, Vice Capo dellâUfficio Legislativo della Ministra per la famiglia, la natalitĂ e le pari opportunitĂ ;
Francesco Saverio Mennini, Capo del Dipartimento della programmazione, dei dispositivi medici, del farmaco e delle politiche in favore del Servizio sanitario nazionale;
Giovanni Leonardi, Capo ad interim del Dipartimento della prevenzione, della ricerca e delle emergenze sanitarie;
Gianfranco Costanzo, Capo del Dipartimento per le politiche della famiglia della Presidenza del Consiglio dei ministri;
Carlo Petrini, Presidente del centro di Coordinamento Nazionale dei comitati etici territoriali per le sperimentazioni cliniche sui medicinali per uso umano e sui dispositivi medici;
Alessandro Nanni Costa, Presidente del Comitato Etico Nazionale per le sperimentazioni cliniche in ambito pediatrico;
Valentino Cherubini, SocietĂ italiana di endocrinologia e diabetologia pediatrica (SIEDP);
Vito Trojano, Presidente Federazione Italiana di Ginecologia e Ostetricia (Sigo);
Andrea Isidori, SocietĂ italiana di andrologia e medicina della sessualitĂ (SIAMS);
Elisa Fazzi, SocietĂ italiana di neuropsichiatria dellâinfanzia e dellâadolescenza (SINPIA);
Fabio Monticelli, SocietĂ italiana di terapia cognitiva e comportamentale (SITCC);
Antonio Lo Iacono, SocietĂ italiana di psicologia (SIPS);
Nicola Colacurci, SocietĂ italiana di ginecologia e ostetricia (SIGO);
Sarantis Thanopulos, SocietĂ psicoanalitica italiana (SPI);
Annamaria Staiano, SocietĂ italiana di pediatria (SIP);
Francesco Lombardo, SocietĂ italiana genere, identitĂ e salute (SIGIS);
Gianluca Aimaretti, SocietĂ italiana di endocrinologia (SIE);
Francesco Frasca, Professore Ordinario di endocrinologia presso lâUniversitĂ degli Studi di Catania;’
Rosario Pivonello, Professore Ordinario di endocrinologia presso lâUniversitĂ Federico II di Napoli;
Emmanuele Angelo Jannini, Professore Ordinario di Endocrinologia, Andrologia e Sessuologia Medica presso lâUniversitĂ Tor Vergata di Roma;
Arnaldo Morace Pinelli, Ordinario di Diritto Privato nellâUniversitĂ di Roma – âTor Vergataâ;
Marco Del Giudice, Professore Associato UniversitĂ di Trieste;
Luca Savarino, Professore di bioetica presso lâUniversitĂ del Piemonte Orientale;
Gian Vincenzo Zuccotti, Professore Ordinario di Pediatria presso la FacoltĂ di Medicina e Chirurgia dellâUniversitĂ degli Studi di Milano;
Furio Lambruschi, Direttore della Scuola bolognese di psicoterapia cognitiva (SBPC).
Lee Jussim is an American psychologist and anti-transgender activist. Jussim has been a heavy promoter of the disputed diagnosis “rapid onset gender dysphoria.”
Lee J. Jussim was born on December 2, 1955 and grew up in New York City before moving to Levittown, Long Island around age 12. About a year later, one parent died of cancer and the other became unreliable in caring for Jussim and sibling. Jussim began cultivating a “rebel” persona that continued into academia.
Like many academics who fancy themselves edgy rebels (or in Jussim’s case, a “dread pirate”), their entire careers have been about defending the status quo.
Jussim dropped out of SUNY-Binghamton in 1975. Jussim later earned a bachelor’s degree from University of Massachusetts, Boston in 1981 and a doctorate from University of Michigan in 1987. Jussim has taught at Rutgers University since 1987.
Jussim and spouse Lisa Baum (born 1956) have three adult children: Rachel (born 1986), Kayla (born 1988), and Joshua (born 1993).
Jussim, Lee (December 22, 2019). Help Stop Another Academic Outrage Mob.PsychRabble https://psychrabble.medium.com/help-stop-another-academic-outrage-mob-eca601397495
Clark CJ, Jussim L, Frey K, Stevens ST, al-Gharbi M, Aquino K, Bailey JM, Barbaro N, Baumeister RF, Bleske-Rechek A, Buss D, Ceci S, Del Giudice M, Ditto PH, Forgas JP, Geary DC, Geher G, Haider S, Honeycutt N, Hrishikesh J, Krylov AI, Loftus E, Loury G, Lu L, Macy M, Martin CC, McWhorter J, Miller G, Paresky P, Pinker S, Reilly W, Catherine Salmon C, Stewart-Williams S, Tetlock PE, Williams WM, Wilson AE, Winegard BM, Yancey G, von Hippel W (2023). Prosocial motives underlie scientific censorship by scientists: A perspective and research agenda. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (Vol. 120, Issue 48). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2301642120
Sander Rietveld is a Dutch anti-transgender activist. Rietveld directed the 2023 anti-trans media piece “Het transgenderprotocol.” It was so one-sided that one of the subjects, Lucy Kortikasari, came out against Rietveld’s deceptive and biased practices.
Background
Rietveld earned a master’s degree from Leiden University in 1999. Rietveld did investigations at Netwerk from 2004 to 2010.
Rietveld authored the 2021 book Nieuwe kruisvaarders [New Crusaders] about connections between orthodox Christianity and far right populism.
Rietveld is host of the podcast ZEMBLA.
Anti-transgender activism
Rietveld directed Het transgenderprotocol. Personnel included:
Rietveld, Sander (2021). Nieuwe kruisvaarders: de heilige alliantie tussen orthodoxe christenen en radicaal-rechtse populisten. Prometheus, ISBN 978-9044645163