Transgenderism, “mental disorder” —Johns Hopkins University

“Dr. Paul R. McHugh, former psychiatrist-in-chief at Johns Hopkins Hospital and his current Distinguished Service Professor of Psychiatry, *said that transgenderism is a “mental disorder” that deserves treatment, that sex change is “biologically impossible”, and that people who promote sexual reassignment surgery are collaborating and promoting a mental disorder.

Dr. McHugh, the author of six books and at least 125 peer-reviewed medical articles, made his comments in a recent commentary in the Wall Street Journal, where he explained that transgender surgery is not the solution for people who suffer from “'Assumption' disorder”—the notion that their masculinity or femality is different from what nature biologically assigned them.*

He also reported on a new study showing that *the suicide rate among transgender people who had reassignment surgery is 20 times higher* than the suicide rate among non-transgender people. Dr. McHugh also looked at studies from Vanderbilt University and London's Portman Clinic of children who had expressed transgender feelings. but for those who, over time, 70% -80% “spontaneously lost those feelings.”

While the Obama administration, Hollywood and mainstream media outlets like Time magazine promote transgenderism as normal, Dr. McHugh said, these “politicians and the media are doing neither the public nor transgender people any favors.” 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 transgender constitutes a mental disorder in two respects. The first is that the idea of sexual misalignment is simply wrong – it does not correspond to physical reality. The second is that it can lead to grim psychological outcomes.”

The transgender person's disorder, Dr. McHugh said, is in the person's “assumption” that they are different from the physical reality of their body, their masculinity or femininity, as assigned by nature. It's a disorder similar to a "dangerously thin" person suffering from anorexia who looks in the mirror and thinks they are "overweight," McHugh said.

This assumption that one's gender is only in the mind regardless of anatomical reality has led some transgender people to push for social acceptance and affirmation of their own subjective “personal truth,” Dr. McHugh said. As a result, some states – California, New Jersey and Massachusetts – have passed laws prohibiting psychiatrists, “even with parental permission, from endeavoring to restore natural gender feelings to a transgender minor,” he said.

Pro-transgender advocates don't want to know, McHugh said, that studies showing that between the 70% and 80% of children who express transgender feelings “spontaneously lose those feelings” over time. Furthermore, for those who had sexual reassignment surgery, the majority said they were “satisfied” with the operation “but their subsequent psycho-social adjustments were no better than those who did not receive the surgery.”

“And so at Hopkins WE STOP doing sex reassignment surgery, "as producing a 'satisfied' but still troubled patient seemed to us an inadequate reason to surgically amputate normal organs," Dr. McHugh said.

The former chief of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins also warned that certain subgroups of transsexuals would not be allowed or encouraged, such as youth “susceptible to the suggestion in sex education that “everything is normal”,” and those leaders and counselors who “encourage these youth to distance themselves from their families and offer advice on refuting arguments against transgender surgery.”

Dr. McHugh also reported that there are “misguided doctors” who, working with very young children who appear to imitate the opposite sex, will administer “puberty-slowing hormones to make sex-change surgeries later less onerous.” children and the risk of causing sterility.”

Such action comes “close to child abuse,” Dr. McHugh said, since about 80% of those children “will grow out of their confusion and grow naturally into adulthood if they are not treated…”.

“Sex change is biologically impossible,” McHugh 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 a civil rights issue and encouraging surgical intervention is actually collaborating and promoting a disorder.

—SOURCE CNN http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/michael-w-chapman/

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