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Julie Maxwell is a British pediatrician and anti-transgender activist.

Background

Child Health Services, Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Winchester, UK

Anti-trans activism

Via Trans Safety Network:

As recently as April 2021, NHS paediatrician Julie Maxwell was one of their “Clinical and Academic Advisors”. She was1, and is very open about working for Christian anti-LGBT and anti-abortion sex education charity LoveWise UK. Recordings of her training seminars for LoveWise are available publicly, where she offers to help push abstinence based and anti-LGBT sex education resources into secular schools.

Maxwell was also involved with a DVD campaign run by Creationist science think tank Truth In Science sent last year to every sitting MP and school on the so-called “Transgender Agenda”. We covered this last year when we heard about it originally. Creationism is the anti-scientific belief that humans were intelligently designed, and did not evolve as part of biological evolution.

Since 2012, Maxwell has also been, a director for the Family Education Trust, a religiously “family values” campaigning charity who promote anti-LGBT views and smacking children contrary to a growing body of evidence that children are harmed by the use of physical assault as a form of discipline. SEGM launched publicly in early 2020, and so far as we can tell Maxwell was part of their organisation from their inception.

References

Moore, Mallory (August 26, 2021). SEGM uncovered: large anonymous payments funding dodgy science. Trans Safety Network https://transsafety.network/posts/segm-uncovered/

Christopher Richards, Julie Maxwell, Noel McCune. Use of puberty blockers for gender dysphoria: a momentous step in the dark. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2018-315881

Julie Maxwell, Katherine Clyde, Lucy Griffin (2019). Gender dysphoria: a question of informed consent BMJ 2019; 367 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.l6442 

Media

Living Out (August 31, 2023). Thinking About Transgender feat. Dr. Julie Maxwell (Youth Leaders’ Crash Course #6). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THT_5OQ4g9o

Resources

Christian Action Research and Education (care.org.uk)

Carole Sherwood is a British psychologist and anti-transgender activist.

Sherwood and Valerie Jean Thomas are associated with anti-trans group Critical Therapy Antidote.

Background

Carole Barbara Patricia Sherwood was born in February 1953.

Anti-transgender activism

Via the site Save Mental Health, Sherwood believes that “important areas of the behavioral sciences – in research, practice, and policy work – have been increasingly captured by censorious ideological orthodoxies.”

Save Mental Health lists other like-minded organizations:

  • Academics for Academic Freedom (afaf.org.uk)
  • BPSWatch (bpswatch.com)
  • Campaign for Common Sense (campaigncommonsense.com)
  • Centre for Male Psychology (centreformalepsychology.com)
  • Counterweight (counterweightsupport.com)
  • Critical Therapy Antidote (criticaltherapyantidote.org)
  • Don’t Divide Us (dontdivideus.com)
  • Free Speech Union (freespeechunion.org)
  • Heterodox Academy (heterodoxacademy.org)
  • The ManKind Initiative (mankind.org.uk)
  • New Discourses (newdiscourses.com)
  • Psychreg (psychreg.org)
  • Society for Open Inquiry in Behavioral Science (openinquirybehavio.wixsite.com/oibs)
  • Thoughtful Therapists (thoughtfultherapists.org)

References

Sherwood., Carole (November 2, 2022). The politicisation of clinical psychology. CIEO https://cieo.substack.com/p/the-politicisation-of-clinical-psychology

Carole Sherwood, Paul M. Salkovskis, Katharine Rimes Help-seeking for depression: The role of beliefs, attitudes and mood. Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy 10.1017/s1352465807003815

Retired Clinical Psychologist email: [email protected] Report: https://save-mental-health.com/training-courses/

Resources

Save Mental Health (save-mental-health.com)

Critical Therapy Antidote (criticaltherapyantidote.org)

YouTube (youtube.com)

Facebook (facebook.com)

Reddit (reddit.com)

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 Women’s 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)

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.

Resources

Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)

Twitter (twitter.com)

LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/)

Facebook (facebook.com)

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 “toxic” 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

Psychreg (psychreg.org)

WordPress (wordpress.com)

Facebook (facebook.com)

Instagram (instagram.com)

  • angelo-vincent-deboni [deleted]
  • values-for-life-55164 [deleted]

YouTube (youtube.com)

Twitter (twitter.com)

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 O’Malley, 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)

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.

  • David Buss
  • Marco Del Giudice
  • Lise Eliot
  • Joyce Endendijk
  • Cordelia Fine
  • Maryanne Fisher
  • David C. Geary
  • Carole Hooven
  • Daphna Joel
  • Donna Maney
  • Margaret M. McCarthy
  • David Puts
  • Tania Reynolds
  • Gina Rippon
  • David Schmitt
  • Wang Ivy Wong

2024 Italian Ministry of Health panel

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 dell’Ufficio 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 dell’infanzia e dell’adolescenza
    (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 l’UniversitĂ  degli
    Studi di Catania;’
  • Rosario Pivonello, Professore Ordinario di endocrinologia presso l’UniversitĂ 
    Federico II di Napoli;
  • Emmanuele Angelo Jannini, Professore Ordinario di Endocrinologia, Andrologia e
    Sessuologia Medica presso l’Università Tor Vergata di Roma;
  • Arnaldo Morace Pinelli, Ordinario di Diritto Privato nell’UniversitĂ  di Roma – “Tor Vergata”;
  • Marco Del Giudice, Professore Associato UniversitĂ  di Trieste;
  • Luca Savarino, Professore di bioetica presso l’UniversitĂ  del Piemonte Orientale;
  • Gian Vincenzo Zuccotti, Professore Ordinario di Pediatria presso la FacoltĂ  di Medicina e Chirurgia dell’UniversitĂ  degli Studi di Milano;
  • Furio Lambruschi, Direttore della Scuola bolognese di psicoterapia cognitiva (SBPC).

References

(May 13, 2024). [Panel for the review of trans healthcare guidelines]. Il Ministro della Salute e il Ministro per la famiglia, la natalitĂ  e le pari opportuni https://www.quotidianosanita.it/allegati/allegato1715771550.pdf

Media

#343 Marco Del Giudice: The Evolutionary Psychology of Gender Differences (Part 1)

–#352 Marco Del Giudice: The Evolutionary Psychology of Gender Differences (Part 2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJ_8sz1RLEc

The Scientific Realities of Biological Sex || Debra Soh, Marco Del Giudice, & Buck Angel -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00ifJhHCb4I

Resources

Marco Del Giudice (marcodg.net)

University of New Mexico Psychology (psych.unm.edu)

  • Marco Del Giudice
  • https://psych.unm.edu/people/faculty/profile/marco-del-giudice.html

Santa Fe Boys Foundation (santafeboys.org)

Lee Jussim is an American psychologist and anti-transgender activist. Jussim has been a heavy promoter of the disputed diagnosis “rapid onset gender dysphoria.”

Jussim has co-authored work with other prominent anti-trans activists, including J. Michael Bailey, David Buss, Sarah Haider, Glenn Loury, John McWhorter, Geoffrey Miller, Pamela Paresky, Steven Pinker, Wilfred Reilly, Steve Stewart-Williams, and Bo Winegard.

Background

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).

Anti-transgender activism

Jussim is a founding member of Heterodox Academy, the Academic Freedom Alliance, and the Society for Open Inquiry in the Behavioral Sciences. 

Jussim was triggered by several incidents involving “gender dysphoria,” including:

References

Jussim, Lee (December 22, 2019). Help Stop Another Academic Outrage Mob. PsychRabble https://psychrabble.medium.com/help-stop-another-academic-outrage-mob-eca601397495

Jussim, Lee (March 20, 2019). Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria: A saga of outrage and science reform. Psychology Today https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/rabble-rouser/201903/rapid-onset-gender-dysphoria

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

Resources

Rutgers (sites.rutgers.edu)

Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)

Psychology Today (psychologytoday.com)

  • Rabble Rouser
  • https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/rabble-rouser

Medium (medium.com)

Twitter (twitter.com)