Posted on 08/20/2014 11:39:49 AM PDT by jazusamo
Full title: Johns Hopkins Psychiatrist: Transgender is a ‘Mental Disorder’ – Sex Change is ‘Biologically Impossible’
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.”
I disagree.
A very ugly Barbie.
:-)
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Either that or he’s got tenure.
Wow! For a quick second, I thought it was a young Rick Perry!
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. —George Orwell
Right. When does he get trundles off to re-education camp?
My wife is Hopkins grad. Proud of this guy...
She does not like men but wants to look like one. I don’t get it.
I know Dr. McHugh. He is a towering figure in the field, and a controversial one, as his views on this issue show. Dr. McHugh has long faced strong criticism of his opposition to PTSD as a diagnosis.
Extend it to homosexuality too because it’s exactly the same...
I salute him for being a man of courage.
“....transgenderism is a ‘mental disorder’ that merits treatment....”
And it is only a little way from full-blown homosexuality, also a ‘mental disorder’ that has been given a pass in the popular belief. However, it has become de rigueur to denounce all criticism these deviancies and idiosyncrasies as “hate speech”.
It is possible, and in the long run, probably vastly more productive, to “deprogram” the tendency to turn to homosexuality, because it is, at its foundation, a choice. Not a good choice, throughout most of recorded history, because it is basically a dead-end of both evolution and in civility.
oh oh... the truth ...
the left will fly into a rage for sure! they HATE the truth!
My immediate thoughts as well...
What he is saying is scientifically true, no matter what one may believe as a matter of religion or philosophy.
I recall the once universally-accepted, but now politically incorrect definition of “normal” as “any behavior which furthers propagation of the species”
No, that's Peaches. Normal wears a green dress and has brunette hair.
Truth will set you Free.
But Truth is more hated than Lies.
Plato stated, it is not that people love what is Good; what they love becomes the “Good”.
The Leftists/Marxists are trying to destroy Objective Truth (God) so that they can destroy Reason and Logic and the Christian Ethics which created that Age of Reason.
For Marxist utopia, children have to be devoid of Reason and Logic so they believe Up is Down, Vice is Virtue and Good is Evil. They can literally be “happy” slaves for the State.
The public schools are conditioning children to “feel” the correct things on all topics like sodomy, abortion, contraception so they can flip Good and Evil-—train children that using human beings in an irrational, evil way is “Good”.
It destroys 2500 years of philosophy and Logic/Reason/Science which originated with the Greeks and was perfected by the Lockean/Adam Smith philosophy.
Marxists go after your little kids to flip good and evil (encourage Limbic area) and they destroy ALL Knowledge——all concepts are lies or twisted “truth” so children are completely unable to “Reason”.
Plato would say they are incapable of coming out of the Cave-—and most people are (sadly). Childhood inculcates and habituates Virtue and Truth——but that is NOT happening in our schools since the Socialist John Dewey destroy Objective Truth and installed moral relativism. Our culture now is Toxic—like the Weimar Republc—and so filth and rot is shaping the Worldview of children-—and how they see human beings/relationships, etc.
It is all to dehumanize and destroy the Natural Family and Natural Laws (Science)-—so children will see boys being girls marrying girls and be so confused and irrational when they become adults-—they will have minds like the 3rd world tribal people....incapable of philosophy and the ideas which rid the world of Slavery, Pederasty, Child Sacrifice, etc.
No Truth/God. We are creating and normalizing a godless world again-—no different than Nero’s pagan Rome or the Samurai. Evil is Good.
The Dr. simply states the obvious truth. We live in an age when lies are propagated and we know they are lies, yet, millions of people accept them as facts. It is simply bizarre and demonstrates how politics is the most menacing of diseases we face. Lies are truths and truths are lies.
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