Because the target location is inward, I'm signalling to myself. The Unherd piece gives more detail on that, though there is scope for a fuller account. I'm working on that at the moment.
Do you believe it is appropriate for children to learn that their school teacher has a paraphillia that h "signals" to h*self while in their classroom? Have you or the school told the parents that you are writing and sharing multiple explanations about it online publicly in your full name where children you teach can read them? You have allocated a tag for 'autogynephilia' on your public website which is in your name. As well as online articles and public tweets, such as this posted a week ago mobile.twitter.com/DebbieHayton/status/1435175662021664768 which directs readers to an article with incredibly sexually explicit descriptions of exactly what autogynephiles do:
'Some reported fantasising during sex that they were women and their female partners were men penetrating them, or that they and their wives were lesbians.'
'Patients listened to stories about presenting as a woman—very dull ones, so as not to excite anyone who did not have an erotic interest in cross-dressing. (Here is a sample: “You put on your eye shadow, mascara, and lipstick.”) Most of the men in Blanchard’s second group who had denied an erotic interest in cross-dressing became aroused. The patients who denied erotic cross-dressing, or who claimed to be bisexual or asexual, scored more highly, suggesting that they were more likely to be saying what they thought doctors wanted to hear.'
' “It made me realise what an audacious thing it was to do—to rebuild your life around your paraphilia with consciousness and deliberation.” '
'Many of their fantasies are clearly sexual, even if unusual—for example, imagining being penetrated in a non-existent vagina while placing something in one’s anus. But almost anything coded female or feminine, she writes, can cause an “intense, perplexing, shame-inducing erotic arousal that seems to simultaneously animate and discredit [autogynephiles’] desires to have female bodies.” Her informants recount erotic fantasies of pushing a baby buggy, joining a knitting circle, being called “ma’am,” having bubble-gum-blowing contests with girls, wearing clip-on earrings, taking birth-control pills, having a Pap smear test, and so on and on.'
'For example, they report arousal at the simple act of putting on everyday women’s clothes. Natal women do not find getting dressed for work an orgasmic experience.'
'But if gender identity is not sexual in origin, then there is no reason those fantasies should be erotic. They also tend to continue post-transition, strengthening the conclusion that they constitute a paraphilia rather than a coping mechanism.'
'She tells him about the “robot man” that “Chuck” (her name pre-transition) constructed to enact his fantasy of vaginal penetration. It had a “penis” made of a dildo, and an arm that could be manipulated to stroke his back. A mirror on the ceiling enabled Chuck to view this simulacrum of heterosexual sex, dressed as a woman with the robot man penetrating his anus.'
'her teenage self, Donald, experienced “a rush of sexual pleasure” when dressing in his mother’s underwear, and used to break into neighbours’ houses in search of girls’ clothes. She also specifies his preference for autogynephilic pornography'
'If a guy decides he’s coming to work as a woman from now on, it’s one thing for him to say: “I’m coming to terms with the fact that I’ve always been a woman inside,” and quite another to say: “I’ve moved on from just masturbating in women’s clothes to wearing them all the time.”'
Then comments such as mobile.twitter.com/ElisaShupe/status/1435277179458232322.
When I was at secondary school, teachers had very strict rules around social media. Kids relished finding out and sharing any tiny details about teachers, which were things like first names or hobbies. The above twitter account was the third Google result just from googling "Dr Hayton" so knowledge of a first name isn't even needed.