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 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 Londons 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.
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 didnt 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 childrens 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 have a good friend, a veteran and former co-worker whose 13 year old daughter decided that she wanted to be a boy. Unfortunately, his ex-wife went along with this farce... it was really just a play for custody. His ex-wife had well documented mental issues and had abandoned the family which is why he had been given custody.
The whole thing is just a mess and heartbreaking for my friend. But the media publicizing and justifying the behavior of these famous head cases causes problems for impressionable young people.