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Take it from a transsexual – transwomen are not women

This piece is an extract from my book, Transsexual Apostate published by Spiked

What drives a man to want to become a woman? To answer this question, it’s worth looking back to the work of American-Canadian sexologist Ray Blanchard. In the 1980s, while working at the Toronto Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, he developed a somewhat controversial taxonomy of male-to-female transsexualism (1). He described one group simply as ‘homosexual transsexuals’ (HSTS). But it is his second group that interests me personally, because it encompasses my own experience as a male-to-female transsexual. A group needs a name – where would the transgender world be without labels? – and, in 1989, Blanchard coined the term ‘autogynephilia’ (2).

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Irony of being lectured for not declaring my pronouns

This is the fourth and final of four extracts from my book, Transsexual Apostate published by the Daily Mail

The fashion for declaring your preferred pronoun is now so ubiquitous that it is difficult to be a conscientious objector.

On the surface, bowing to someone’s wish to be called ‘he’ or ‘she’ or ‘they’ is surely no more than a kind and thoughtful gesture that respects other people’s situations. And perfectly harmless. Except that it isn’t harmless. It transfers power. No longer do any of us have the freedom to perceive which sex-based pronouns best describe the human being standing in front of us: we are now expected to read the label and follow the instructions. Or else.

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Even though I’ve had a sex change operation … I’m not and never will be a woman

This is the third of four extracts from my book, Transsexual Apostate published by the Daily Mail

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.

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The Campaign Against Me by the Trans Lobby Was Unbelievably Nasty

This is the second of four extracts from my book, Transsexual Apostate published by the Daily Mail

As my thinking developed, the trans people I knew became more and more distant, particularly after I began to put my thoughts in print through pieces of journalism.

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I went through an agonising operation because I thought becoming a woman would finally make me happy… Then I had a devastating revelation

This is the first of four extracts from my book, Transsexual Apostate published by the Daily Mail

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.

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