Debbie Hayton

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Amanda Abbington is right: drag queens aren’t for children

8 August 2023 9:50 pm

The Transgender Thought Police are impossible to please. The sooner Amanda Abbington realises, the better. The star of Sherlock and…

Are the Greens more interested in trans rights than saving the planet?

5 August 2023 1:22 am

July 2023 could soon be declared as the hottest month on record. Few doubt that climate change is real and…

Trans guidance for schools can’t come soon enough

19 July 2023 6:20 pm

The Department for Education has delayed yet further its long-awaited transgender guidance for schools. Rishi Sunak had pledged that the document would…

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Caster Semenya shouldn’t be able to compete in women’s events

12 July 2023 4:40 pm

Who can compete in women’s sports? This week’s decision by the European Court of Human Rights further complicates the debate. Judges in…

Mermaids’ loss is a victory for a free society

6 July 2023 9:32 pm

This morning’s news that the LGB Alliance has won its case to retain its charitable status is a victory and…

Rishi Sunak is no transphobe

19 June 2023 5:04 pm

Does a woman have a penis? Of course not. Until recently, that basic biological fact was accepted by almost everyone.…

Is the rise in ‘trans visibility’ something to celebrate?

8 June 2023 1:40 am

If the LGBTQIA+ community has become a church for the new millennium, it is certainly attracting adherents across the world.…

Kathleen Stock and the rejection of gender reality

31 May 2023 5:27 pm

Last night, Professor Kathleen Stock told the Oxford Union that we need to talk about ‘reality’. She is absolutely right.…

What Parkrun gets wrong about trans rights

25 May 2023 10:37 pm

Siân Longthorpe’s record breaking time of 18 minutes and 53 seconds in the Porthcawl Parkrun highlights all that is wrong…

The UN is wrong about Britain’s treatment of trans people

14 May 2023 3:02 am

Is Britain a hostile environment for trans people? The United Nations’ independent expert on sexual orientation and gender identity has delivered…

Biological men shouldn’t be competing against women

4 May 2023 1:39 am

When will sporting governing bodies see the reality that we all know to be true – that male bodies have an…

Has the single sex trans school conundrum finally been resolved?

18 April 2023 7:42 pm

For too long, some teachers and schools have been making it up as they go along when presented with the…

Why Daniel Radcliffe is wrong about children changing gender

14 April 2023 4:54 pm

Daniel Radcliffe has told a group of young people that adults worried about children changing gender have a ‘slightly condescending…

The trouble with Joe Biden’s trans declaration

31 March 2023 10:48 pm

Today is International Transgender Day of Visibility – just like the preceding 89 days of 2023. But, jesting aside, it…

The tragedy of the Nashville school shooting

29 March 2023 2:51 am

Three children and three staff have been shot dead at a school in the United States. The pupils who died…

Why did it take Seb Coe so long to see sense over transgender athletes?

24 March 2023 10:36 pm

World Athletics has decided to protect women’s sport by restricting it to females. From 31 March, transwomen will not be…

JK Rowling is no transphobe – and I should know

18 February 2023 6:30 pm

Most authors would undoubtedly be satisfied with the legacy of Harry Potter: hundreds of millions of books sold, a film…

Eddie Redmayne’s transgender confusion

30 January 2023 7:20 pm

Eddie Redmayne is clearly still troubled by his portrayal of the transsexual Lili Elbe in The Danish Girl. Eight years…

The UK can’t ignore Scotland’s gender recognition Bill

10 January 2023 11:13 pm

On Monday we learned that Gender Recognition Certificates (GRCs) issued in Scotland might not be accepted in England and Wales.…

Labour is wrong: it’s not ‘hate speech’ to question trans rights

23 December 2022 12:24 am

MSPs were up until the early hours last night at Holyrood debating amendments to the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland Bill).…

Why is this student official apologising for being bio-essentialist? 

3 December 2022 12:43 am

Why do we need a Women’s Officer anyway? Wind back the clock about 35 years, and that question might have provoked 20…

What trans activists can learn from Chelsea Manning

22 November 2022 10:52 pm

Chelsea Manning, who leaked hundreds of thousands of military and diplomatic records about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to…

Teachers need help in the transgender debate

11 October 2022 7:12 pm

Which toilet should a trans pupil be allowed to use? Teachers like me have enough on our plates with the day…

The moment that showed the madness of gender ideology

17 September 2022 12:28 am

Homosexuality was legalised in England and Wales 55 years ago. The Sexual Offences Act 1967 permitted homosexual acts between two…

Liz Truss will come to regret her 'bonfire' of workers' rights

5 September 2022 5:12 pm

Liz Truss is right about sex and gender. But if she is to get the country through the next winter…