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)
- Angelo Vincent Deboni
- https://www.psychreg.org/angelo-vincent-deboni/
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)