This page<\/a> gives you everything you need to know about the DSM4\u2019s criteria for diagnosis, and therefore access to hormones and surgery for trans people. I\u2019ll just quote the relevant part here \u2013 emphasis is my own:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\u201cThere must be evidence of a strong and persistent<\/em> cross-gender identification, which is the desire to be, or the insistence that one is of the other sex<\/em> (Criteria A). This cross-gender identification must not merely be a desire for any perceived cultural advantages of being the other sex<\/em>. there must also be evidence of persistent discomfort about one\u2019s assigned sex or a sense of inappropriateness in the gender role of that sex (Criteria B).\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\nCriteria B: This cross-gender identification must not merely be a desire for any perceived cultural advantages of being the other sex. \u201cthe other set of gender norms seemed more palatable\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\nClearly, also Debbie has no profound discomfort over their assigned sex.Criteria B:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cross-gender identification must not merely be a desire for any perceived cultural advantages of being the other sex. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n“I\u2019m male, I\u2019m still male, but I find it more comfortable [presenting as a woman]” \u2013 Debbie Hayton<\/p>\n\n\n\nQuite ironic, yes Debbie, we do need to be honest about who we are. In the United Kingdom, trans people are often classified under the ICD \u2013 international classification of diseases, rather than the DSM, although it is recognised that the two often influence each other. The ICD classification is much more simplistic, however, it also serves a purpose. Here are the ICD classifications from the period 2012-2016:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cA desire to live and be accepted as a member of the opposite sex,<\/strong> usually accompanied by a sense of discomfort with, or inappropriateness of, one\u2019s anatomic sex, and a wish to have surgery and hormonal treatment to make one\u2019s body as congruent as possible with one\u2019s preferred sex.<\/strong>\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n“I don\u2019t identify as a woman, I\u2019m not even sure what it means to identify as a woman\u201d \u2013 Debbie Hayton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
F64.0 Transsexualism (ICD-10) 2014<\/h5>\n\n\n\n \u201cA desire to live and be accepted as a member of the opposite sex, usually accompanied by a sense of discomfort with, or inappropriateness of, one\u2019s anatomic sex<\/strong>, and a wish to have surgery and hormonal treatment to make one\u2019s body as congruent as possible with one\u2019s preferred sex.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\nA desire to live and be accepted as a member of the opposite sex, usually accompanied by a sense of discomfort with, or inappropriateness of, one\u2019s anatomic sex<\/strong>, and a wish to have surgery and hormonal treatment to make one\u2019s body as congruent as possible with one\u2019s preferred sex.<\/p>\n\n\n\nNow, forgive me if I\u2019ve missed something here, but repeatedly posting on your blog, on huff post, on talk radio, that you don\u2019t identify as a woman, rationalising and stating how you are a man, and that you\u2019re not sure what it means to identify a a woman pretty much flies in the face of both the ICD classification of transsexualism, and DSM-4 criteria of the erstwhile \u201cGender Identity Disorder\u201d presently called \u201cGender Dysphoria\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Having talked with innumerable trans people, one of the most common reasons for delaying surgical treatment for people is when the psychiatrists aren\u2019t convinced that this is necessarily the right course of action for this person, and Debbie admits in her writing that this was duly delayed for 4 years. This \u201cthinking time\u201d, however, wasn\u2019t enough, it seems. When Debbie wrote \u201cwe need to be honest about who we are\u201d, Debbie was unaware of the irony of this!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We have exclusive evidence of correspondence from Debbie, which, sadly, details their regret about having transitioned. From our experience, people who regret, often do so after surgery, when the full meaning of never being able to live as their assignation at birth comes home. I\u2019m sorry that Debbie isn\u2019t happy with their decisions, however, this also adds evidence that Debbie was not, after all, as transsexual as they thought they were.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nWhen you ask for \/ need help from psychiatric services, it is very unhelpful if you aren\u2019t entirely honest with the people who are trying to help you.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\nIf I were to lie to my psychiatrist about auditory or visual hallucinations, there is a slight chance that I may be given anti-psychotics, which may well not be of benefit to me. In the same way Debbie, who is quite willing to say that they are male, and has no idea what it feels like to be a woman<\/em>, might be regretful of the decision they made to permanently change their body, and be \u201cforever dependent on artificial hormones\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\nI am not saying that Debbie is not trans, or doesn\u2019t have some experience of the feeling of being trans, however, as evidenced \u2013 Debbie does not meet the criteria for diagnosis on psychiatric terms of being a transsexual woman<\/em>, or a trans woman<\/em> judging by the things Debbie says about themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\nIdentity, self-ID, and the medicopathologisation of trans identity.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n It is always at the back of my mind that many non-binary and indeed binary trans people might feel affronted by my use of texts which pathologise trans people, and how this has historically excluded non-binary people. I am very aware of this and would like to make it clear that this is not my intent in doing so. My point is that while simultaneously claiming to be \u201ca true transsexual\u201d, and therefore \u201cacceptable\u201d to cis people, Debbie has outed themselves as not actually meeting those criteria, and at present, nothing more. Readers will be aware that at Transiness, we support both self-ID and embrace a model of gender and sex which reflects current scientific thinking<\/em>. That is: both gender and sex are highly variable<\/em>, and we support anyone in their right to bodily autonomy, and that everyone deserves to have agency over their body and<\/strong> access to therapy and counselling services which may be of help to them. Both binary and non-binary people deserve respect, and access to services to allay bodily dysphoria should they require medical intervention to live a happy and authentic life.<\/p>\n\n\n\nBeing trans isn\u2019t a pathology in itself, self awareness of one\u2019s transgender identity may or may not bring with it a strong need to be recognised in society as one\u2019s actual identity, and people\u2019s solutions to their situation are as varied as trans people themselves. This is where access to affirmative therapy helps people to feel more comfortable with themselves, their role in society, and weigh up the risks and benefits from social and physical transition. Therapy also helps us to explore what kind of trans person we are, and some people find it helpful to apply a label to that. Those labels are important, because it is through them that we are understood and judged by others. Being understood and respected forms part of people\u2019s wellbeing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There is no \u201ccookie-cutter\u201d trans person. It only becomes pathological, only needing treatment when it interferes with a persons social and\/or psychological wellbeing<\/em>. So self-ID is not only important for people who change their bodies with hormones and surgery, but also important for those who need recognition for who they are without having to resort to life changing, permanent and risky surgery, or having to take hormones. We need to appreciate that being trans isn\u2019t a binary, and that there is variance in gender and identity and solutions to dysphoria are all very personal and unique.<\/p>\n\n\n\nSo lets take a look at Debbie\u2019s position on self-ID<\/strong>. Debbie wrote or was mentioned in articles in Medium, The Times, The Guardian, their own blog, The Economist, numerous tweets, The Morning Star, Talk Radio and Quilette, about self-ID.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nThis is an excerpt from Debbie\u2019s argument which was published in the Times, arguing against the right of trans people to legally self identify, and for a medicalisation and a bureaucratic process to self identity:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Debbie Hayton on self identification<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now we\u2019ve already established that, in Debbie\u2019s own words, they don\u2019t identify as a woman. Debbie\u2019s identity does not meet DSM or ICD classifications of transsexualism as they continue to define themselves as being male.<\/p>\n\n\n\nIt\u2019s interesting that Debbie writes \u201cthrow my lot in with them\u201d \u2013 is this a reference to trans surgery and their regret? They say they identify with<\/em> women \u2013 rather than making any reference to who they actually are. Identity isn\u2019t a case of being empathic or supportive of people, you can be empathic and supportive of anyone, human or not. Being trans is a recognition of who you are and how you fit in the world, how you perceive yourself and how you are treated socially is the cornerstone of dysphoria and why people change their pronouns, or their bodies. This is why trans people are who they say they are \u2013 it is not to be deceptive, or to make out that any of us are cisgender, it is both to resolve this conflict and help others to understand who we are and how we fit in a very gendered world. Binary trans people are valid, non-binary people are valid. Bodily autonomy is important for everyone, cis or trans. The real problem happens when others try to police our bodies and our identities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\nSpeak for yourself, Debbie. Trans women are women.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
Elevating cisgender people\u2019s concerns over those of trans people is cis-supremacy. Domination and control of trans people\u2019s identity is cis-supremacy.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n Supremacism<\/strong> is an ideology which holds that a particular class of people is superior to others, and that it should dominate, control, and subjugate others, or is entitled to do so. The supposed superior class of people can be an age, race, species, ethnicity, religion, gender or sex, sexuality, language, social class, ideology, nation, or culture, or any other part of a population.<\/p>\n\n\n\nDebbie Hayton in the Economist<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Here, Hayton writes to the spectator, deligitimising trans people\u2019s identity in favour of what they call the objectivity of dividing people not by how they identify, but by their reproductive capability. Bio-essentialism is historically the philosophy that trans exclusive radical feminists have used in order to maintain their supremacy over trans women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Here, Hayton attempts to validate their own position, while punching down on non-binary people. This is another form of cis-supremacism \u2013 that no trans person deserves respect or is valid unless it takes the form of the dominant, cis-centric group. When we are looking at equality: and to do, say and publish things which are progressive and inclusive, this is not the way forward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In identifying \u201cwith women\u201d, Hayton is found to be consistently cis-supremacist in their writing \u2013 without providing nuance or balance. The key as a trans advocate, and to act with humanity and compassion, is not to explore how to exclude trans people from society, not to support a status quo which sees trans people\u2019s identity as \u201cjust feelings\u201d which can be ignored with impunity, but how to include trans people in society \u2013 in sports, in welfare provision, within healthcare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hayton declares their cis-supremacist ideas and punches down on non-binary people, and those who do not undergo medical transition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And toward the end of the article, Hayton calls trans women and people \u201cdishonest\u201d. They use their own experience to talk for themselves, yet use \u201cwe\u201d in order to signify \u201call trans people\u201d. Policing and controlling trans people is not progressive, just because Debbie Hayton does not identify as a woman, does not mean that trans women, and transsexual women, do not exist. Debbie Hayton\u2019s anti-trans activism, affiliation with transmisogynistic people, and hate groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Debbie Hayton\u2019s association with anti-trans groups, people, and campaigns is well documented. Anyone who has been part of twitter for the last few years is very aware of what has been said, and by whom over the years. One of these campaigns, arguing for the expulsion and marginalisation of trans people through biological essentialism and cis-supremacy resulted in a billboard quoting a mantra held by the group with the dictionary definition of a woman. The argument is that by including trans women in society, it re-defines what it means to be a woman as a class, and cis-women aren\u2019t happy with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Debbie in part of the campaign against trans women\u2019s inclusion in society as women.<\/p>\n\n\n\nHere is Debbie Hayton with anti-trans campaigner \u201cHope Lye\u201d (pronounced H-o-p-e L-i-e) who is well known to the trans community, and has been expelled from every trans support community in the UK, and well known on twitter for their anti-trans remarks. They describe themselves as a \u201cgender non-conforming man\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Debbie Hayton (center) and Hope Lye (right).Debbie Hayton\u2019s affiliation with anti-trans group \u201cWoman\u2019s Place UK\u201d whose purpose is to maintain supremacy over and control of trans women. Debbie Hayton\u2019s dialogue published and supported by an anti-trans site. \u201cPeak trans\u201d is anti-trans dialogue for: this is when I became so anti-trans I campaigned against trans people\u2019s rights and freedom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Debbie Hayton has also written to the Express, and the Spectator campaigning against trans children\u2019s services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Debbie Hayton, doctor Debbie Hayton, lobbying Scottish Parliament to maintain a process which supports a biomedical model of segregation, marginalising non-binary people and forcing people to out themselves as trans:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Debbie also supports well known transphobe Julie Bindel, who recently wrote an article demonising and misgendering Rachel McKinnon, a trans woman and athlete.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Conclusion and closing remarks<\/h2>\n\n\n\n Anyone claiming to be on the side of trans people, or acting on their behalf must be accountable both for their actions and affiliations. As an umbrella term \u201ctrans\u201d includes a huge variety of people and situations. Care should always be taken by activists, by therapists, by anyone claiming ownership or belonging to such a marginalised group should not to put themselves and their own self interest above those who they purport to represent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The acid test for those spokespeople includes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nDo they stand up to scrutiny, are they living by the same standards?<\/li>\n\n\n\n Do they listen to and respond to their community, are they part of and connected to the community \u2013 or are they part of a fringe group?<\/li>\n\n\n\n Do they uphold cis-supremacy, governance and authority over trans people or policing of trans people?<\/li>\n\n\n\n Are they using their platform to elevate the voices and experiences of those less fortunate than themselves, do they represent them?<\/li>\n\n\n\n Are they affiliated with any anti-trans groups, people or organisations?<\/li>\n\n\n\n Do they focus on how to include trans people in society, rather than exclude them for any reason?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\nFurther reading:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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