Posted on 05/02/2016 10:27:03 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
(CNSNews.com) -- Dr. Paul R. McHugh, the former psychiatrist-in-chief for Johns Hopkins Hospital and 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 Time magazine 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.”
For which he will probably suffer.
Bookmark
I wonder how much longer he will be allowed to practice.....because you know he will be under attack now.
Progressivism in a nutshell.
All I know is if some perv pretending to “self identify” as a woman were to walk into a woman’s restroom my wife or daughter was using, I will “self identify” as Dirty harry or Chuck Norris and this SOB’s family will be arguing with each other as to whether or not to remove his feeding tube.
Bookmark to respond tomorrow
I an sure that LGBT crowd will try and destroy him and his medical practice.
I concur.
John Hopkins was the first hospital to do sex reassignment surgeries. After the studies and tracking, they changed their Ming and no longer do them.
Heard a guy interviewed who had gone through reassignment, was just as miserable, had psychotherapy, and decided to be reversed. He was treated at Hopkins. His message was very powerful
As long as he wants. Hopkins no longer participates in reassignment surgeries
Sadly yes. Most societies deal with Trannies by forcing them into prostitution to keep them away from regular people.
He told the truth, thereby simultaneously committing the single greatest sin in modern America and striking a blow for normalcy!
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Lefties love perverted stuff. So they will hate this guy.
The same thread of fantasy requiring acceptance seems to be in many other cultures, such as if I blow myself up and kill many infidels I win my place in Paradise.
I choose to believe that Jesus is the path and the light to God, but I’m not demanding anyone accept my opinion. My belief may be a flight of fantasy, but I will find out for myself when the time comes, and no one else gets hurt, or coerced in the process.
It’s illegal to be sane.
>> For which he will probably suffer.
We’re involved with Johns Hopkins in a small, personal way. And I have no problem speaking to this issue if necessary.
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