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  Mermaids boss ‘forced out’ as staff revolted against her ‘incapable leadership’ A whistleblower revealed Susie Green, who quit as the charity’s chief executive last week, was accused of ‘shoving her head in the sand’ By Ewan Somerville 2 December 2022 • 9:25pm The Mermaids boss was forced out amid a staff revolt including complaints that she was not transgender, The Telegraph can disclose, as a statutory inquiry is opened into the  scandal-hit trans charity .  Susie Green suddenly stood down last week  as chief executive of the embattled group after six years, with no interim boss in place and the move shrouded in secrecy.  A whistleblower has revealed disarray and anger within the charity’s Leeds and London offices.  The boss faced a staff backlash over her “incapable” leadership, culminating in a “nail in the coffin” report that trustees received last week.  The internal audit, launched earlier this year by the Social Justice Collective (SJC), a di...

  I’m a trans woman’s wife: my life with Debbie Hayton In 2012 Stephanie Hayton’s husband transitioned and became her wife. Here she explains why their voices need to be heard Stephanie and Debbie Hayton today and on their wedding day DEBBIE HAYTON Stephanie Hayton Wednesday February 07 2024, 12.00am GMT, The Times Puzzles Challenge yourself with today’s puzzles. Crossword Polygon Sudoku I turned to my colleague after an hour of trying to focus on some urgent pieces of work. “I need to go home,” I said. “I’m not coping.” I am Stephanie, and I am married to Debbie. In case you haven’t heard, Debbie transitioned from male to female in 2012 and has written a book about her story, gender politics and why gender ideology is a bad idea. Her voice is important because she has lived through transition and challenges gender groupthink from the inside. However, my voice is also important, as are the voices of others: those who have de-transitioned, the trans widows who have been abandoned or...

INTERVIEW | JANICE TURNER Debbie Hayton: the trans woman taking on the trans activists She was married with children when she transitioned. But when Debbie Hayton began questioning the idea that people with gender dysphoria are born in the wrong body, she found herself under attack by the trans community Debbie Hayton at her home in Bristol. “The received wisdom is, surgery is necessary. Eight years on from mine, I now wonder” TOM JACKSON FOR THE TIMES MAGAZINE Janice Turner Saturday February 03 2024 T he lines in the gender wars of the past decade are starkly drawn. On one side stands the LGBT lobby headed by Stonewall, fighting for society to treat trans people according to their “gender identity” rather than biological sex, even in matters of prisons and sport. On the other are gender-critical feminists who believe this is calamitous for women’s hard-won rights. It is a toxic fight in which few change sides and even fewer defy their supposed tribe. Which makes  Debbie Hayton ...