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 â in research, practice, and policy work â 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)
- Donât 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: sherwoodcarole@hotmail.com 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)
Thoughtful Therapists is an anti-trans consortium of therapists based in the United Kingdom
2021 survey
Their goal is to allow non-affirming models of care for gender diverse youth to be legalized. They frequently call this “gender exploratory therapy.”
In a 2021 survey, the organizers state: “We are concerned that the proposed Bill to Ban Conversion Therapy may criminalise or ban beneficial exploratory therapy in the context of gender dysphoria.”
People acknowledged as associated with Thoughtful Therapists
- Peter Jenkins, author
- James Esses, author
- James Caspian, member
- Mary Garner, member
- Chris Goddard, member
- John Higgon, member
- Stella OâMalley, member
- Terry Patterson, member
- Bob Withers, member
- Beverley Dale, design
References
Jenkins, P. and Esses, J. (2021) Thoughtful Therapists: Scoping Survey for Government Equalities Office Consultation on Conversion Therapy. https://sex-matters.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/ThoughtfulTherapistsScopingSurvey.pdf
Resources
Thoughtful Therapists (thoughtfultherapists.org)
Twitter (twitter.com)
Gender Dysphoria Support Network (GDSN) is a website run by anti-transgender extremists. GDSN is closely aligned with global anti-trans ringleader Stella O’Malley.
Open letters
GDSN published a 2022 open letter by Stella OâMalley of Genspect titled “An Open Letter to Pediatric Gender Clinics.”
GDSN published a 2021 open letter critical of EPATH and signed by anti-trans activist groups.
Signatories:
GDSN recommendations
The GDSN site recommends like-minded anti-trans extremism
Books
Podcasts
Films
- Trans Kids: Itâs time to talk
- Dysphoric (a four-part documentary series)
- The Trans Train (a three-part Swedish documentary series with English subtitles)
- Trans Mission – Whatâs the rush to reassign gender?
YouTube
In the media
- The Federalist – Is transgender the new anorexia?
- The Economist – An English Ruling on Transgender Teens Could Have Global Repercussions
- Newsweek – We need balance when it comes to gender dysphoric kids
- Quillette – No one is born in the wrong body
- The Sunday Times – The Detransitioners
- Public Discourse – The Impossibility of Informed Consent for Transgender Interventions
- Sexology Today – Do trans-kids stay trans- when they grow up?
Key studies
- Lisa Littman – Parent reports of adolescents and young adults perceived to show signs of a rapid onset of gender dysphoria
- SEGM – Correction of a Key Study: No Evidence of âGender-Affirmingâ Surgeries Improving Mental Health
- Lisa Marchiano – Outbreak: On Transgender Teens and Epidemics
- Roberto DâAngelo, Ema Syrulnik, Sasha Ayad, Lisa Marchiano, Dianna Theadora Kenny & Patrick Clarke – One Size Does Not Fit All: In Support of Psychotherapy for Gender Dysphoria
- Anastassis Spiliadis – âTaking the lid off the boxâ: The value of extended clinical assessment for adolescents presenting with gender identity difficulties
- Elie Vandenbussche – Detransition-Related Needs and Support: A Cross-Sectional Online Survey
Recommended Online Reading
- Transgender terminology
- Top ten tips for parents
- Lisa Marchiano – Guidance for Parents of Teens with Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria
- Lisa Marchiano – New Guidance for Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria
- Lisa Marchiano – Should I take testosterone?
- Sasha Ayad – Finding Support at Home and Beyond
- Carey Callahan – Advice for gender dysphoric teens
- Stella O’Malley – âGaslighting the Concerned Parents of Trans Children – A Psychotherapistâs View
Exploring Specific Issues
- Puberty Blockers – I couldn’t sit by while so many others made the same mistake: Keira Bell
- Autism – Autism, Puberty, and Gender Dysphoria: Elizabeth Hawker
- Gender-questioning Boys (Angus Fox) – When Sons Become Daughters: Parents of transitioning boys speak out on their own suffering
- Gender-questioning Boys – Masculinity, anime and gender dysphoria
- Suicidality – Suicide facts and myths, Gender dysphoria and suicide
- Parental Alienation – Trans kids may reject family, not the other way around
Detransition
- Elle Palmer – Channel
- Daisy Chadra – Channel
- DeTrans Stories: Suffering & Sincerity with Torren
- Detransition: The Elephant in the Room Documentary
Resources
GDSN lists other anti-trans resources
INTERNATIONAL
- Gender Critical Resources Support Board
- Oasis: A Place for Parents (Facebook group)
- Our Duty – UK , USA, Australia, Canada
- Parents of ROGD Kids
- Amanda Familias
BY COUNTRY
- Cry For Recognition (Belgium)
- No Corpo Certo (Brazil)
- Kirjo (Finland)
- Ypomoni (France)
- Transteens Sorge berechtigt (Germany)
- Genitori De Gender (Italy)
- Aotearoa Support (NZ)
- Genid: Gender Identity Challenge – Norway, Sweden
- AMQG (Switzerland)
- Bayswater Support Group (UK)
- Cardinal Support Network (US â Ohio)
INTERNATIONAL
BY COUNTRY
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)
King Street Psychology Clinic (kingstreetpsychologyclinic.com.au)
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Reddit (reddit.com)
Australian Psychology Association (psychology.org.au)
LinkedIn (linkedin.com)
Google Scholar (scholar.google.com.au/)
- 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
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)
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)
-hughforsheriff.com
-zuker.org
-https://web.archive.org/web/20230000000000*/aYearofKindness.com
-https://multigenerationalconsulting.com/
Facebook (facebook.com)
Substack (substack.com)
LinkedIn (linkedin.com)
Jewish Institute for Liberal Values (jilv.org)
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 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).
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)
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Elliot Kaminetzky is an American psychologist and anti-transgender activist. Kaminetzky primarily opposes medical consensus on care for trans and gender diverse youth.
Do not go to Kaminetzky for any kind of therapy. If you are a trans or gender diverse minor forced to see Kaminetzky, do everything in your power to end the sessions and find supportive local resources.
Background
Elliot M. Kaminetzky was born in March of 1985. In 2014 Kaminetzky married pediatrician Rachel Sharret (born 1985). They have three children.
Kaminetzky earned a bachelor’s degree from Yeshiva University in 2009 and a doctorate from Hoffstra University in 2016.
Following an internship at the Veterans Administration in 2017 and a fellowship at Northwell Health, Kaminetzky founded My OCD Care in 2018. In 2023, Kaminetzky was a founder of The Center for Child Behavioral Health.
Anti-trans activism
In 2023, Kaminetzky attended the anti-trans conference held by Society of Evidence-based Gender Medicine (SEGM).
Kaminetzky also attended the 2023 Genspect Denver conference of anti-transgender extremists:
While some may see us as hateful, I have only seen kind-hearted and brilliant people of all walks of life discussing youth gender medicine; one of the biggest medical scandals of our time.
Kaminetzky (2023)
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David J. Ley is an American psychologist and author. Ley has promoted and supported several anti-trans activists, including James Cantor, Benjamin Boyce, Jesse Singal, Lee Jussim, Zhana Vrangalova, Dan Savage, Debra Soh, Candice Horbacz, Kenneth Zucker, and Alice Dreger. Ley has quietly deleted some of that promotion and support after pushback.
Ley is on the editorial board of the most transphobic journal ever produced, Archives of Sexual Behavior.
Background
David Jonathan Ley, Jr. was born on January 26, 1973. Ley earned a bachelor’s degree from University of Mississippi in 1995 and a doctorate from University of New Mexico in 2001.
From 2003 to 2004, Ley was a manager at Lovelace Sandia Health System. Since 2004 Ley has been affiliated with New Mexico Solutions and was serving as Executive Director as of 2024.
Ley has served on the boards of Sexual Health Alliance, National Council for Mental Wellbeing, and New Mexico Behavioral Health Providers Association.
Ley has authored several books and frequently criticizes the spurious concept of “sex addiction.” Ley is also a critic of pathologizing many unusual sexual interests and frequently appears in mainstream media to discuss sexuality.
Ley lives in the Albuquerque, New Mexico area. Ley and spouse Roxanne Inez Candelaria-Ley (born 1973) have an adult child, Samantha. Ley trains and competes in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.
References
Ley DJ (2014). A Review of âTreating Transgender Children and Adolescents: An Interdisciplinary Discussion.â Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy, 40:1, 69-70, https://doi.org/10.1080/0092623X.2013.854548
Ley DJ (March 1, 2021). The Cancel Mob Is Coming. Psychology Today https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/women-who-stray/202103/the-cancel-mob-is-coming
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Benjamin Boyce (February 8, 2022). The Ins & Outs of Sex | with Dr. David J. Ley. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBAhe56Xzf8
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