The autogynephilic “compulsion to transition” is, we are informed, “driven by one of the most powerful forces known to man — the male sex drive”. Well, quite. It certainly isn’t driven by any great insight into female inner lives.

Burn! Love Victoria Smith.

I can already tell the oncoming wave of trans repenters are going to irritate the shit out of me. They'll act dumbfounded and piteous - "how could I have known it was all a lie?" And women will once again be told to be kind to them, that ex-TIMs are the real victims of trans madness. When if they had an ounce of respect for women, they never would have gotten into this in the beginning.

"Debbie's" long-suffering Wife, Stephanie Hayton, apparently wrote an epilogue to Her husband's new book.

An excerpt is posted here on Quillette. I wouldn't say it's the most compelling or coherent thing I've ever read—but in a more allegorical sense, that same meandering quality of the narrative strikes me as a window into Stephanie's own state of mind, worn down and unable to find Her own footing, so to speak, because She's still putting up with Her husband's bullshit (complete with the obligatory she/her pronouns in the article) after all these years. 💔

Besides, even if You don't overthink everything like this😅 I think it's important to read the perspectives of transWidows and put-upon Wives when we do encounter them—even if They're still stuck in the "kinda handmaideny" phase at the moment—just because we so rarely hear the Wife's side of these AGP transition sagas.

There is a part of me that wonders whether becoming an “apostate”, far from constituting a retracing of steps, functions as a new hero’s journey, another form of self-harm as self-affirmation.

Bingo! Excellent article, love Victoria Smith (reading "Hags" right now).

Hayton says “trans people wish to be perceived as attractive members of the opposite sex”. That strikes me as very well and succinctly put.

"He's NOT the Messiah, he's a very naughty boy!"