First, Do No Harm
Gender reassignment is taking an already deeply disturbed individual, and in the name of political correctness and probably lots of $$$, physically mutilating them. And what good will come of that?
Probably due to all the attempted suicides.
“Most shockingly, their suicide mortality rose almost 20-fold above the comparable nontransgender population.”
It would have been more useful to know and compare the suicide rate for those trans before/without surgery.
Did it rise from 2x normal to 20? Or from 19 to 20?
Uh Oh, he’s in trouble.
Holy Moly - I knew it was bad but not that bad. No wonder they quit doing the operation.
The transgendered suffer a disorder of "assumption" like those in other disorders familiar to psychiatrists... anorexia and bulimia nervosa, where the assumption that departs from physical reality is the belief by the dangerously thin that they are overweight….
If you do not have a medical degree you will likely be hounded as impossibly bigoted if you state this in public. We're not doing these people any favors by cultivating their delusion.
Not to fear. Soon VA hospitals will perform these surgeries on tax payer dimes for the new transgender the military will be forced to accept. And you want those bamacare subsidies hospitals? Guess what. You’re going to perform this surgery for free. How dare you violate one’s civil rights by not butchering their genitalia.
One more nail in the coffin of small business.
Normally, testimony from this highly placed an expert would be considered definitive. But since it contravenes the left-wing narrative, it will be either ignored or disregarded as “one man’s opinion.” Then the pro-mutants will trot out some adjunct professor of Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay, and Baitcasting Studies at Possom Hollow Community College “refuting” it.
They don’t have the balls to do them anymore.
I’ve never understood the ‘completeness’ of the surgery.
Other than switching out private parts, aren’t there other distinctly male/female traits that can’t be changed surgically. For example, men’s shoulders are usually wider than their hips, and the reverse in women.
No surgery can change every cell in the body.
Imagine if this was said about homosexuality. That poor psychiatrist just might suddenly see his work options dry up.
Absolutely true, and howling non-PC!
Basically, you can change the upholstery and some of the more obvious furnishings, but the original ‘person’ is still there inside, and has not changed like the exterior.
Common sense --- finally. No matter how many hormones you take, or how radical the surgery; you are the sex you were born. As for the suicide rates, I have been saying for years that if you really cared about these people, you would not allow this surgery to go on. Perhaps those of us who oppose this are the ones who are truly caring about the person involved.
There is no such thing as “sex-reassignment”. Hormones, chemicals, surgical mutilation and ignoring mental illness is not sex reassignment.
It is nice to see some movement on a subject that has been mired in 1950’s psychology. It is interesting that a such a “disease” that requires such drastic mutilation, has not been researched using post-millennial tools and techniques. When someone is “diagnosed” as transgender where are the CAT scans, MRIs, blood work, DNA work and other diagnostic techniques that would search for biological causation? None.
Where are the psychological diagnostic instruments that would confirm or deny? None.
Where are the trials of antipsychotics, antianxiety agents and psychotherapy to test the contents of the patient’s beliefs? None.
Where is the research about diagnostic decisions trees that include biological paradigms? None.
Where are the men and women running to doctors and psychiatrists upset that they feel like they are of another gender? None
Instead we are told that the patient makes the diagnosis. Because they have felt like the opposite sex from their DNA since they can remember. Not accounting for the fact that in delusional processes, the past is incorporated in the delusions i.e.: when I treat the secretary who thinks she is the Queen of England, although her delusional onset may be recent (within a matter of months or days, at times) her delusions will include memories of being a child-queen, for acute delusional processes are often seamless.
Parents who arrive at schools and clinics with children dressed and raised as their DNA opposites are hailed as brave instead of studied as classic cases of Munchhausen by Proxy where parents seek attention by making up and believing the child is different, ill or diseased and providing symptoms and evidence to back the parent’s need.
McHugh is doing a service by raising these important issues in a world blinded by political correctness that engenders fear
They no longer perform an addadictome?
Give it 20 years. It will no longer be a mental disorder and some Justice like Anthony Kennedy will demand the disorder be celebrated or else.
+1
“It now appears that our long-ago decision was a wise one.”
It amazes me to see an Island of sanity in a Sea of PC. How did this happen?