In the wake of the Jenner phenomenon, it is heartening to learn that Dr. Paul R. McHugh, the former psychiatrist-in-chief for Johns Hopkins Hospital and its current Distinguished Service Professor of Psychiatry, is on record as stating that transgenderism is a “mental disorder” that deserves treatment, but also that sex change is “biologically impossible.” McHugh says that people who support sexual reassignment surgery are cooperating with and endorsing a mental disorder.
He explained that
transgender surgery is not the answer for people who suffer a “disorder of
‘assumption’” – the belief that their maleness or femaleness is dissimilar to
what nature gave them biologically.
There is a recent study
showing that the suicide rate among transgendered people who underwent
reassignment surgery is 20 times higher than the suicide rate among
non-transgender people. McHugh also revealed 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.”
Dr. McHugh remarked
too that “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 truth of their body, their maleness or femaleness, as
assigned by nature. McHugh sees it as a disorder much like a “dangerously thin”
person suffering anorexia who looks in the mirror and thinks they are “overweight.”
The aforementioned
assumption has led some transgendered people to seek social acceptance and
affirmation of their own “personal truth,” said Dr. McHugh. Thus, some states have
passed laws barring psychiatrists, “even with parental permission, from
striving to restore natural gender feelings to a transgender minor,” he said.
Tragically, 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. In addition, 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 cautioned against empowering or encouraging 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 testified
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 difficult – even though the drugs stunt
the children’s growth and risk causing sterility.”
This indeed borders on
“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.” And that ain't all.....
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