Transsexual Apostate was serialised by The Daily Mail in two extracts, published on Saturday 27 January 2024 and Sunday 28 January 2024. Following that, the paper published an exclusive interview by Frances Hardy.
Extract 1: I went through an agonising operation because I thought becoming a woman would finally make me happy… Then I had a devastating revelation.
‘Are you sure you want to do this?’ the anaesthetist at Charing Cross Hospital asked as I lay on the trolley ready for theatre, giving me one last chance to back out.
I was a middle-aged man with a wife and three children but I was convinced I was some kind of woman, and I needed the operation in order to live authentically as one.
‘Yes,’ I said, knowing that what was about to happen would change me for ever and be irreversible. ‘Go for it!’
And with that, he put me under.
Four hours later I came to, my gender reassignment surgery over. It’s a major and far from risk-free operation for an otherwise healthy person to put themselves through, the details of which are not for the squeamish. …
Read more on The Daily Mail website (paywall).
Extract 2: Even though I’ve had a sex change operation… I’m not and never will be a woman
You may think that changing your sexual identity should be an issue of concern solely to people like me. Though middle-aged and married with three children, after decades as a secret transvestite I came out and transitioned from a man to a woman, first socially by cross-dressing and changing my name from David to Debbie, then physically by subjecting myself to the extreme surgery of having my genitalia sliced and diced and reconfigured.
We transsexuals are a smallish number in a UK population of 68 million. But what should be a personal and private matter affecting just a few has become public property and a game-changer insidiously affecting the whole of society. Gender identity ideology now permeates our institutions. It has hijacked the narrative of all our lives. …
Read more on The Daily Mail website (paywall).
Interview: I still fancy my beautiful wife but we sleep in separate beds: Debbie Hayton reveals how gender reassignment surgery almost destroyed her 30-year marriage (by Frances Hardy)
Trans woman Debbie Hayton considers a question that cuts to the heart of her being. Her honesty is lacerating and often controversial. She says if she could turn back the clock she would probably never have transitioned.
It is a staggering — and poignant — admission. ‘I transitioned because I thought I was some kind of woman and because there seemed to be no alternative,’ she says.
‘The received wisdom at the time was that my mental health would deteriorate — and it had done so to the point where I even considered suicide — so I saw transition as the only possible escape from psychological dysfunction.
But now I realise the whole premise on which I transitioned was wrong. Trans women are not women. Yet I turned my life and my family’s lives upside down, causing them shock, embarrassment, hurt and upset because I thought I was a woman.
‘Looking back now, I realise I didn’t need to transition, but if I hadn’t I would only have been increasingly frustrated and distressed. My grandmother would have said: ‘I could have told you but you had to learn the hard way.’ …
Read more on The Daily Mail website (paywall).
Transsexual Apostate by Debbie Hayton will be published by Forum on 8 February 2024.
Debbie Hayton 
4 replies on “Transsexual Apostate – Serialisation and Exclusive Interview”
I know you know this, Debbie, but once again I must say how impressed I am with your courage, facing the onslaught of criticism that would come, to help the rest of the world “journey back to reality.” I’d have liked to read the articles, but I’m not prepared to sign up at the Daily Mail, even for the free month.
They do let you read comments there, though, as a guest, which made me realise that the criticism, and the hurt I imagine it must cause, doesn’t just come from the gender ideologues, the impressionable, unthinking SJWs, but those at the other end of the political spectrum, many of whom responded to your article with utter ignorance.
I don’t know if you have to hold your nose to publish in the places you do. I used to think it was a terrible shame the left-wing media are too afraid to deal with the trans issue honestly, because it’s their readership who need the balance in their “be nice” bubble, but this made me realise there are the Daily Mail readers too, who might – you never know – see one of the less common, supportive, appreciative comments, and actually begin to engage brain.
I was arguing with someone who said the trans issue isn’t a left-right issue, but he’s got a point. Really, deep down, it’s a critical-thinking-versus-tribalism issue.
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Thanks. I have pitched pieces to the Guardian but without success.
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We seem to hear very little from the wives involved. It seems to be all about the men and making them feel comfortable and justified. I’m not aware of any reports about married women who decide they are going to become men after giving birth. Do their husbands stay around to support them I wonder?
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“18 months: A Memoir of a Marriage Lost to Gender Identity” by Shannon Thrace is an excellent account from the wife’s POV.
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