Debbie Hayton

Debbie Hayton is a teacher and a transgender campaigner.

@DebbieHayton

Why I won’t be celebrating International Pronouns Day This madness needs to stop

18 Oct 2023

Why I support the trans ban in women’s chess The International Chess Federation's announcement makes empirical sense

17 Aug 2023

Why is defining ‘trans woman’ so difficult? Activists and policymakers have made the term confusing

08 Aug 2023

British Rowing sees sense on trans participation The organisation has followed swimming's lead on female competition

04 Aug 2023

Swimming may have found an answer to the trans question World Aquatics's new open category is a welcome development

26 Jul 2023

In America, trans activists are turning to vandalism A Utah ban on 'gender-affirming care' for children has prompted a fierce backlash

24 Apr 2023

William Hague (unwisely) enters the trans debate The former Tory leader fails to see the importance of single-sex institutions

19 Apr 2023

Megan Rapinoe is wrong about the ‘anti-trans sports ban’ The footballer fails to understand that sex matters in sport

12 Apr 2023

Report: most UK schools now pushing gender ideology One in five don't even offer single-sex changing rooms

30 Mar 2023

Trans activists are today’s Militant Tendency If Keir Starmer wants to succeed, he must face them down

22 Mar 2023

JayCee Cooper’s court victory is a loss for USA Powerlifting Now the sport must allow trans athletes to compete with women

06 Mar 2023

Ireland backtracks on gender identity curriculum in schools Students will no longer be taught that gender is on a spectrum

28 Feb 2023

Can The New York Times resist the trans backlash? The paper is facing internal dissent over its gender coverage

17 Feb 2023

What Galop gets wrong about conversion therapy A new report inadvertently shows the pitfalls of state overreach on gender identity

27 Jan 2023

Census: two-thirds of transwomen list sex as female New ONS data contains a startling finding

25 Jan 2023

I don’t have a Gender Recognition Certificate — and I don’t want one I don't require government-issued paperwork to prove that I am trans

17 Jan 2023

How many people are actually trans? New census data, suggesting one in 200 people are trans, is misleading

06 Jan 2023

Trans organisation pulls ‘biological condition’ article Translucent performed a U-turn after a wave of online criticism

14 Dec 2022

Trans ideology has split America Attitudes to gender in red and blue states now form a major policy battleground

19 Nov 2022

Why is Joe Biden taking trans advice from a TikTok star? The President seemed clueless during his interview with Dylan Mulvaney

26 Oct 2022

Teachers’ union seeks to change definition of transphobia Trans lobbyists want the term to go 'above and beyond legal compliance'

11 Oct 2022

Medical authorities are censoring the trans debate An open letter to the US Attorney General has troubling implications

05 Oct 2022

Spain considers radical trans bill A draft law allows over-14s to change their legal gender with no medical diagnosis

29 Sep 2022

Vanderbilt has disgraced itself over trans surgeries The clinic is turning complex treatments into a money-spinning operation

22 Sep 2022

The surgeons exploiting trans misery

05 Sep 2022

Trans player wins women’s billiards championship Why was Jamie Hunter allowed to compete against biological women?

30 Aug 2022

Suella Braverman: transitioning is not a neutral act The Attorney General has sent a powerful warning to schools

11 Aug 2022

Germany succumbs to trans ideology The country plans to allow gender self-ID at 14

08 Aug 2022

New medical guidelines for trans patients are too political The latest RCOG advice bears all the hallmarks of transgender activism

27 Jul 2022

Why the public reject trans ideology New polling shows that campaigners are undermining themselves

20 Jul 2022

We should all be grateful to Maya Forstater Her victory is an important milestone for women's rights

07 Jul 2022

FINA’s trans ruling is a return to common sense Fairness is slowly returning to sport

20 Jun 2022

Trans polling doesn’t tell the whole story New research about trans equality is misleading

16 Jun 2022

My autogynephilia story

09 May 2022

Canada census reveals how many people are trans Generational differences skew this unique data

03 May 2022

Emily Bridges has no place in women’s cycling The cyclist's inclusion in the championship is unfair to women everywhere

30 Mar 2022

Self-ID will not give trans people “dignity and respect” Why is Caroline Nokes pushing so hard against current Government policy?

25 Mar 2022

First Scotland, now Ireland embraces trans ideology The Irish Census will allow individuals to indicate both male and female

17 Mar 2022

Scotland’s Gender Recognition Act won’t help trans people Today's bill is as bad as feared

03 Mar 2022

On Wikipedia, trans activists are always editing The world's largest reference site is subject to a relentlessly partisan slant

08 Feb 2022

Stop saying the UK is transphobic

27 Jan 2022

Lords amendment on single-sex prisons withdrawn Women are vulnerable in the prison estate, but many still doesn't understand this

11 Jan 2022

A win for common sense at the Girls’ Day School Trust The body deferred to established law, not Stonewall law

03 Jan 2022

The Supreme Court rejects non-gendered passports A welcome judgement from the UK's highest court

17 Dec 2021

Europe’s war on sex

08 Oct 2021

New guidance recognises biological sex in sport The Sports Councils Equality Group came out in defence of women-only sport

01 Oct 2021

What The Lancet gets wrong about women

27 Sep 2021

How the Lib Dems silenced debate on conversion therapy Dissenting arguments went missing at this weekend's conference

21 Sep 2021

Why I became trans

24 Aug 2021

Why is the taxpayer spending millions on Stonewall? Far too much public money is being spent on learning how to be a 'trans ally'

09 Aug 2021

Why this trans athlete is no Laurel Hubbard Unlike the New Zealand weightlifter, Quinn is a biological female

05 Aug 2021

Does everyone agree transgender women are women? The International Olympic Committee medical director seems to think so

29 Jul 2021

How the trans activists fooled Ireland

20 Jul 2021

Will trans activists back down after this court verdict? A major new ruling punishes online abuse and harassment of women

30 Jun 2021

Therapy for gender dysphoria must be protected Some young people simply need to be reconciled to their biological sex

21 Jun 2021

Why are politicians comparing the LGB Alliance to the BNP? Comparisons like these will inflame the already raging debate around trans rights

07 Jun 2021

Will North Wales’ new ‘agender’ mayor accept your apology? Apparently, saying sorry isn't always enough

18 May 2021

Why are we celebrating a four-year-old transitioning? Children are too young to make that kind of decision

11 May 2021

Edinburgh University rules won’t help trans people Not everyone wants to trumpet their gender dysphoria

05 May 2021

Labour’s new militant tendency is the LGBT+ lobby Keir Starmer should learn from the past and not let them take over the party

06 Apr 2021

Why is the NYT perpetuating myths about trans life in Britain? The paper has a warped image of the UK's transgender climate

02 Mar 2021

LGBT: an elegy for the L and G More and more young people claim not to be straight

26 Feb 2021

Sorry Boris, school’s out for summer We are all exhausted, staff and students alike

10 Feb 2021

The transgender debate is tearing the SNP apart Joanna Cherry's card has probably been marked for some time

02 Feb 2021

Yelling ‘transphobia’ is not an argument Activists don't want to debate a new book — they want to shut discussion down

19 Jan 2021

The inconvenient truth about transwomen

22 Dec 2020

Privileged students are weaponising trans rights Ann Henderson, Rector of the University of Edinburgh, is the latest target

27 Oct 2020

Lib Dems squash internal revolt on trans rights The party appears to be in thrall to Gender Identity Ideology

28 Sep 2020

Why is Netflix sexing up ‘Cuties’? It is a symptom of a much wider problem in our culture

20 Aug 2020

Maybe we are all ‘non-binary’? It is easy to create identities, but more difficult to define who qualifies

14 Jul 2020

Trans people don’t lack rights

15 Jun 2020

Britain is not a transphobic country

12 Mar 2020

What Labour gets wrong about transwomen

19 Feb 2020

The inconvenient truth about transwomen

22 Jan 2020

A boy in a dress is just a boy in a dress

22 Nov 2019