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Transsexual Apostate: My Journey Back to Reality

‘Transwomen are men: Get over it’ – a personal account of how one transsexual did get over it, and found satisfaction and contentment as a result.

My book, Transsexual Apostate: My Journey Back to Reality is published by Forum Press.

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Debbie Hayton is a physics teacher, trade unionist and a transwoman. She transitioned in 2012, and underwent gender reassignment surgery in 2016. In the years that followed, she came to understand that the ideology around gender identity is false and misleading. Her views are based upon material reality: while we should not be limited by our sex, we cannot deny our sex. Once a prominent voice on the TUC’s LGBT+ committee, she has now effectively been excommunicated by the trans activist community. What happened?

In this gripping, personal account, Debbie weaves an intimate experience of gender transition and the impact on the individual, family and friends. But the book is more than a memoir. Focussing particularly on transwomen, Debbie explores the reasons why some people claim to be trans. It’s not because they have a ‘gender identity’. Instead, Debbie gets to the root of the issue – a condition called autogynephilia* which possibly affects up to 3% of men – and explores what happens when middle aged men become infatuated with the thought of themselves as a woman.

This is a psychological condition that needs to be managed compassionately and with understanding, Debbie argues. This means giving up the bizarre quasi-religious claims and
cynical power plays that have come to characterize most trans-rights activists’ arguments, at a major cost to the truth, female safety, and political sanity.

Hayton’s honest, humane book shows that accepting reality will allow transwomen to live their best lives based on the truth of who they are, rather than the fantasy of who they are not.

Forum Press
  • £16.99 (hardback) ISBN 978-1800753099
  • £12.99 (ebook) ISBN: 978-1800753105
  • £24.99 (audiobook)

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* Autogynephilia – “a male’s propensity to be sexually aroused by the thought of himself as a female”. (Ray Blanchard, 1989)

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.

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