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Posted on 08/23/2014 1:12:01 PM PDT by cardinal4
The US military has yet to offer Pte First Class Chelsea Manning sex change treatment despite medical recommendations, her lawyer has said.
Defence secretary Chuck Hagel approved treatment for a condition known as gender dysphoria in July.
But lawyer David Coombs says her requests for hormone therapy and other accommodations have been "ignored".
The soldier formerly known as Bradley Manning is serving a 35-year sentence for leaking secret files to Wikileaks.
"This time last year I publicly asked that I be provided with a treatment plan, to bring my body more in line with my gender identity," Pte Manning said in a statement to NBC News.
"Unfortunately, despite silence, and then lip service, the military has not yet provided me with any such treatment."
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
In Chelsea’s case, the proper therapy involves a rope.
The Left is so anti-science.
Serious question: if he has hormone therapy and fake-lady parts, does he reside in the male or female wing of prison?
I bet a lifetime with lady parts and male muscles in female prison would be a lot easier than a lifetime being used as a lady in male prison.
So the point if this article is what? We are supposed to feel sorry for him??? He may have to wait the 35 years in prison before he can get his sex change operation?? This is what we are supposed to be sympathetic about??????
A) I’m not the thread poster and (B) where did I say such a thing?
Well... he would be moved to a female population...Even lacking appropriate plumbing he would still be a guy in a harem.
Can’t we just call these disturbed people “Confused Male” or “Confused Female?” ConM or ConF.
First of all it's PV1 (aren't enlisted convicted of serious offenses always reduced to E-1?),second of all it's Bradley,and third of all it's "his",and fourth of all....who the bleep cares?
Boo hoo!
Science only applies when they need money or need to disprove God so they can excuse immoral and aberrant behaviors.
Give him the DIY kit of soy milk and a razor blade.
Perhaps not...but we all know that eventually an Osama Obama appointee will order it to be done and when it reached Kagan's in-box (assuming that she's the one who first gets appeals from military appeals courts),SCOTUS will refuse to take the case (It's my understanding that SCOTUS very seldom becomes involved in military cass).
POST OF THE DAY!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3195117/posts#43
Johns Hopkins Psychiatrist: Transgender is a ‘Mental Disorder’– Sex Change is ‘Biologically...
CNSNews ^ | August 20, 2014 | Michael W. Chapman
Posted on Wednesday, August 20, 2014 2:39:49 PM by jazusamo
Full title: Johns Hopkins Psychiatrist: Transgender is a ‘Mental Disorder’ – Sex Change is ‘Biologically Impossible’
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Dr. Paul R. McHugh, the former psychiatrist-in-chief for Johns Hopkins Hospital and its current Distinguished Service Professor of Psychiatry. (Photo: Johns Hopkins Medicine)
(CNSNews.com) — Dr. Paul R. McHugh, the former psychiatrist-in-chief for Johns Hopkins Hospitaland its current Distinguished Service Professor of Psychiatry, said that transgenderism is a “mental disorder” that merits treatment, that sex change is “biologically impossible,” and that people who promote sexual reassignment surgery are collaborating with and promoting a mental disorder.
Dr. McHugh, the author of six books and at least 125 peer-reviewed medical articles, made his remarks in a recent commentary in the Wall Street Journal, where he explained that transgender surgery is not the solution for people who suffer a “disorder of ‘assumption’” – the notion that their maleness or femaleness is different than what nature assigned to them biologically.
He also reported on a new study showing that the suicide rate among transgendered people who had reassignment surgery is 20 times higher than the suicide rate among non-transgender people. Dr. McHugh further noted studies from Vanderbilt University and London’s Portman Clinic of children who had expressed transgender feelings but for whom, over time, 70%-80% “spontaneously lost those feelings.”
While the Obama administration, Hollywood, and major media such as Timemagazine promote transgenderism as normal, said Dr. McHugh, these “policy makers and the media are doing no favors either to the public or the transgendered by treating their confusions as a right in need of defending rather than as a mental disorder that deserves understanding, treatment and prevention.”
“This intensely felt sense of being transgendered constitutes a mental disorder in two respects. The first is that the idea of sex misalignment is simply mistaken – it does not correspond with physical reality. The second is that it can lead to grim psychological outcomes.”
The transgendered person’s disorder,said Dr. McHugh, is in the person’s “assumption” that they are different than the physical reality of their body, their maleness or femaleness, as assigned by nature. It is a disorder similar to a “dangerously thin” person suffering anorexia who looks in the mirror and thinks they are “overweight,” said McHugh.
This assumption, that one’s gender is only in the mind regardless of anatomical reality, has led some transgendered people to push for social acceptance and affirmation of their own subjective “personal truth,” said Dr. McHugh. As a result, some states – California, New Jersey, and Massachusetts – have passed laws barring psychiatrists, “even with parental permission, from striving to restore natural gender feelings to a transgender minor,” he said.
The pro-transgender advocates do not want to know, said McHugh, that studies show between 70% and 80% of children who express transgender feelings “spontaneously lose those feelings” over time. Also, for those who had sexual reassignment surgery, most said they were “satisfied” with the operation “but their subsequent psycho-social adjustments were no better than those who didn’t have the surgery.”
“And so at Hopkins we stopped doing sex-reassignment surgery, since producing a ‘satisfied’ but still troubled patient seemed an inadequate reason for surgically amputating normal organs,” said Dr. McHugh.
The former Johns Hopkins chief of psychiatry also warned against enabling or encouraging certain subgroups of the transgendered, such as young people “susceptible to suggestion from ‘everything is normal’ sex education,” and the schools’ “diversity counselors” who, like “cult leaders,” may “encourage these young people to distance themselves from their families and offer advice on rebutting arguments against having transgender surgery.”
Dr. McHugh also reported that there are “misguided doctors” who, working with very young children who seem to imitate the opposite sex, will administer “puberty-delaying hormones to render later sex-change surgeries less onerous – even though the drugs stunt the children’s growth and risk causing sterility.”
Such action comes “close to child abuse,” said Dr. McHugh, given that close to 80% of those kids will “abandon their confusion and grow naturally into adult life if untreated ….”
“’Sex change’ is biologically impossible,” said McHugh. “People who undergo sex-reassignment surgery do not change from men to women or vice versa. Rather, they become feminized men or masculinized women. Claiming that this is civil-rights matter and encouraging surgical intervention is in reality to collaborate with and promote a mental disorder.”
A Ka-Bar and a liter of vodka.
how about FUBAR? that’s what I call them.
For all we know Kagan has “been under the knife” herself..!
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