Posted on 06/17/2015 9:11:58 AM PDT by xzins
Thanks for posting this.
I want the transition over to be one of my dogs.
They got the best life on Earth. Play, eat, play, get pets, sleep, get pets, go for a ride, play some more in the yard, sleep, time to eat again, how about some lap time human.
Do you think that Bruce Jenner has shocked many people awake? When you realize that you have been lied too you begin to look back on other things that were told to you that might have been lies.
I’m thinking this highly distinguished doctor has heard all of the xxy, sry, etc. arguments and considers them inconsequential.
The solution is to require any physician performing a sex change operation to change all the chromosomes (XY to XX or XX to XY) in that person as part of the procedure.
Johns Hopkins Psychiatrist: Transgender is ‘Mental Disorder;’ Sex Change ‘Biologically Impossible’
By Michael W. Chapman | June 2, 2015 | 1:34 PM EDT
Dr. Paul R. McHugh. (Photo:
Johns Hopkins Medicine)
(CNSNews.com) — Dr. Paul R. McHugh, the former psychiatrist-in-chief for Johns Hopkins Hospital and 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 Time magazine 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.”
I think most people considering the matter dispassionately would have come to that conclusion from the name "dysphoria". The real problem with declaring that there is no Normal is that it simply isn't so.
But gird your loins if you would confront this matter. Hell hath no fury like a vested interest masquerading as a moral principle.
You'd better be tenured, in an emeritus status, or ready to retire with your professional reputation too solid to slime in order to dare to speak the truth on the issue. One might think that the medical profession would have such a vestment inasmuch as it's a paying gig, but Hopkins no longer performs the surgery due to the high suicide rate of the patients. Which brings us back to the previous comment about therapy. The vested interests involved here are political; they are held by people who are not directly involved, and those people do NOT have the interests of the victims uppermost in mind. The vested interests are in keeping of people who are using them as a weapon to break down existing society no matter the cost, who will benefit from this by accruing political power and by indulging in personal habits that they consider unjustifiably disapproved of by that society. Certain of these habits are harmless enough, others personally destructive, and still others fantastically corrosive to the entire society. None of this can be wished away or defined out of existence.
“Even young boys and girls have begun to present themselves as of the opposite sex. Over the last ten or fifteen years, this phenomenon has increased in prevalence, seemingly exponentially.”
This is what happens when a nation turns is back on God. We were founded as a Christian nation with Christian states. But we told God He is no longer wanted here. So God has said, ok, have it your way, I will give you over to your own desires. Have at it.
So now, look at all the beautiful rainbow children we have. And girls that want to be boys and boys that want to be girls. Girls that desire girls, boys that desire boys. It is just so sweet, cute and innocent.
And Caitlyn Jenner, well aren’t we all just so accepting and tolerating of her? She is splashed all over the media. Forcing all of us and our children to see her. Put in front of our eyes, there is no place to hide our eyes and our children from her image.
God has given us what have desired.
Finally someone dares speak the truth.
Finally someone dares speak the truth.
Finally, someone with gravitas speaks the truth.
What is everyone having for lunch? I just had a salad & am still hungry; salads don’t always do it for me without a lot of toppings on them & loads of salad dressing.
LOL. How about this? I feel like I am a Princess, therefore I am a Princess, therefore I should have a title and a crown. Now, everyone should curtsey to me./s
no one is answering me! Is everybody skipping lunch?!
T4 was a euthanasia program. First step in the political and genetic purification that would be necessary in National Socialism. Science in servitude to political ideology.
Are YOU Dave - and Hopkins - saying if I have feathers inserted under my skin that I won't be a bird? Tell me it ain't so...
I believe you, Princess Gumdrop.
You either slept in or are on the west coast. :>)
I slept in this morning. We’re down south; you know, that part of the country that REBELLED against the Yankees in the War of Northern Aggression. Great-Great Grandpappy fought at the Battle of Shiloh in the gray uniform; told my grandmother it was the “biggest mess” he’d ever seen in his life. (I’m 68 yrs. old; & back when my parents first took me to Shiloh, the Bloody Pond had more of a tinge of red to it than it does today.)
Sanity in an insane world.
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