The Transgender: Normalizing Mental Illness
Posted on April 6, 2016
Brilliant video (below) on positioning transexualism as a mental disorder.
The video illustrates the fundamental flaw in reasoning behind treating the transgender movement as the last, great progressive movement towards social justice.
The narrator references a Wall Street Journal article by Psychiatry professor, Dr. Paul McHugh, entitled Transgendered Surgery isn’t the Solution. At one time Dr. McHugh headed the Gender Clinic at Johns Hopkins University. In his article McHugh writes while the Obama administration, Hollywood, and the major media including Time Magazine promote transgenderism as normal, 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.”
In the article McHugh says transsexuality is the disorder of the person’s “assumption” in that they are different than the physical reality of their respective bodies, their maleness or femaleness, as assigned by nature.
McHugh cites studies by Vanderbilt University and London’s Portmoth Clinic of children who had expressed transgender interests but for whom over time 70 -80% percent “spontaneously lost those feelings”.
The video continues to cite a position paper by the American College of Pediatricians. In the position paper the American College of Pediatricians urges educators and legislators to reject all policies that condition children to accept as normal a life of chemical and surgical impersonation of the opposite sex. Facts – not idealogoy – detemine reality.
The paper asserts among other things:
1.Human sexuality is an objective biological trait: “XY” and “XX” are genetic markers of health – not genetic markers of a disorder.
2.No one is born with a gender. Everyone is born with a biological sex.
3.A person’s belief that they are something they are not is, at best, a sign of confused thinking.
4.Puberty is not a disease and puberty blocking hormones can have negative health consequences.
lastly,
8. Conditioning children into believing a lifetime of chemical and surgical impersonation of the opposite sex is normal and healthful is child abuse
Thank you for this information on the mental illness of transgenderism.