My autogynephilia story
AGP drove my own transsexualism. But in a debate where the condition is simultaneously denied and monstered, it is unsurprisingly also misunderstood.
Mermaids’ ‘help sheet’ risks confusing trans kids
Facilities are segregated by sex, not gender identity, and for good reason. By failing to set this out clearly, Mermaids leaves young people vulnerable to being challenged.
Canada census reveals how many people are trans
If clinicians were not cautious before, they should be now
Why are midwives being told that biological men can give birth?
It is surely beyond parody that now a school of nursing and midwifery is teaching students that biological males can get pregnant and give birth.
Trans activist makes a fuss without facts
Let’s restore some perspective and honesty to the debate, and we may start to move towards a resolution
Why we need an inquiry into gender treatment for children
Governments need to worry less about upsetting lobby groups and rather more about protecting children
The Scottish Greens are in cloud cuckoo land on trans rights
The problem is not out there, the problem is squarely in Slater’s own thinking.
Press pause on Conversion Therapy Bill
We worry about children who are presenting with gender dysphoria
Now Boris Johnson has said what so many think, let’s end all the preposterous nonsense being spoken in the name of trans women
Human biology is real and we should stop pretending that it doesn’t matter
Has the transgender bathroom question finally been answered?
Trying to merge the rights of women and trans people together was never a good idea. It has satisfied nobody, and led to confusion that has fuelled an increasingly toxic debate.
Jamie Wallis’s trans statement leaves more questions than answers
Whatever becomes of Wallis though a box has been ticked: Britain has its first trans MP. Or at least an MP who wants to be trans.
Emily Bridges has no place in women’s cycling
The legacy of male puberty lasts for life: longer bones, larger lungs, bigger hearts, and much else
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Debbie Hayton
Physics teacher and trade unionist, originally from the north of England.
As a trans person I have written extensively about what it means to be trans, and how trans people can be accommodated in society without compromising the rights of other vulnerable groups.
Bylines in The Times, Spectator, Unherd, RT, Morning Star, Economist, Quillette, Mail+ and elsewhere.
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