Yhii, nobody's Debater status has been taken away. There was a purge some 3 or 4 years ago, and there hasn't been one since, so rest assured that if you were a debater before the XenForo move, you are still a debater. Judging by the fact that you're able to post in here, I believe that means you are still a debater (unless the switch messed with permissions or something).
However, your post did make me check the "user CP" (or whatever it's called now), and I realized that maybe the misconception arose because there's no option for a member to identify themself with a Debater title (or "ribbon" as it's called now). Even I don't have the option to identify myself as a Debater. Furthermore, there's no information on members' profiles either about which usergroups they belong to.
Hell, I can't see who's in the Debater or Temp Debater usergroups. I literally have no way of viewing this information anymore, nor can I see/approve requests to join usergroups, because there's no moderator control panel or mod tools. Hopefully, our devs will get these kinks worked out. In the meantime, you clearly have access to the DH, so post away.