In an article in the WallStreet Journal, Dr. Paul R. McHugh, distinguished
professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins and their chief psychiatrist for
almost three decades, wrote about a medical fact: sex change, or what is now routinely called "sexual reassignment surgery" is "biologically impossible". He also
referred to what is routinely called "transgenderism" as a mental
disorder. He further opined that those who promote sex change operations are
not helping but hurting people with this disorder.
"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."
McHugh says the
transgendered person's disorder 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, similar to a "dangerously thin"
person suffering anorexia who looks in the mirror and thinks they are overweight.
The 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. Thus 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.
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. 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.
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," he said. "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."
Because this disorder
is not seen for what it is and allowed free reign and uncritical acceptance, it
has morphed into further confusion concerning the meaning of the human person,
as evidenced in the following video:
