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.”
Lol definitely not his color
He will be off to reeducation camp to “get his mind right”...
Both the children I have known whose parents have done it have trans transed back. A woman with her breasts removed has now had implants to have them back.
We are being sold a line of bull.
The sexual/gender problems of these kids are REAL. The innocent children should be supported. Someone has gone wrong in their wiring but they should not be forced to play with playthings they don’t want and have playthings they do want taken away. However, until we figure out the cause (I’m still guessing plastics or other estrogenics in our environment), we should let all kids know that any expression of gender is fine.
However, the medical community should STOP pushing this crazy idea of transgender. Let males be males (however they feel, they are males - even if gay or effeminate) and vice versa.
Wow, it’s a sad day, when I don’t expect anyone to speak so frankly.
Wow, it’s a sad day, when I don’t expect anyone to speak so frankly.
The part about treating young kids is appalling, but also pretty amusing.
Homosexuals, as children, often exhibit the kind of gender-confused behavior that is treated as a precursor to sex-change surgery.
Basically this amounts to a shift from trying to turn gay kids straight, to turning them into ... members of the opposite sex.
And I thought “common sense” was a lost commodity.
Psychology of a trannie bookmark
Because they are mentally ill. Pray for them.
But Truth is more hated than Lies.
Truth: It's the new hate speech.
Finally a medical professional says it!
If I remember correctly, types of chromosomes determines sex.. Man has X & Y and woman has X&X.. After they mutiliates their body, their chromosomes don’t change and are still same sex.
I recall seeing a documentary several years ago about people (both men and women) who identified with the opposite sex and had “reassignment” surgery. The study had interviews with them and followed them for a time after the surgery. Without exception, all were more miserable after than before. Ironically, one couple in which the male became “female” and the female “male” split not long after the surgery as they could no longer deal with their own issues as well as their partner’s.
I was in San Francisco years ago and was eating at a diner in a booth. A guy sat at the counter dressed like a woman. He was obviously troubled. He looked similar to your pic. It was too sad to chuckle. Everyone sitting around him just looked at each other as if to say, “This poor guy is messed up in the head. He can’t be happy. So it is useless to laugh at him.”
Thank you Dr. McHugh for saying what we have known all along.
If you think you are queer or should be another sex, you have a mental disease. PERIOD!
When I see someone dressed like a clown...I either laugh or run away.
Nice post. Thanks for preserving the links.
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Finally, somebody with a medical degree speaks out.
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