Transgenderism is a ‘Mental Disorder’ – Sex Change is ‘Biologically Impossible’

[eyer]

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.”

...“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.

Read all about it here:

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article...atrist-transgender-mental-disorder-sex-change

 

[BotanyBoy]

Religion is also a mental disorder....admit yourself to the nearest hospital TheoCon scum.

 

[CandiCame]

You've not actually READ any of his books, have you?

 

[Bert Notorius]

Religion is also a mental disorder....admit yourself to the nearest hospital TheoCon scum.

you can change religions.

 

[CandiCame]

I'm just gonna go ahead and assume that Eyer doesn't read, but Dr. McHugh would be appalled at how he was presented in that copy/paste. He's an outspoken advocate of transgender rights, ESPECIALLY among children. His work that that article is referencing is in regards to transgendered people who DON'T experience body dysphoria. He believes that a lot of people are undergoing dangerous surgeries, often traveling out of the country because the APA won't grant them the surgery in the states. These people, he states, are genderfluid, rather than transgender, and should not have surgery because it won't solve anything, and they've got it built up in their heads that it will solve everything. And then when it doesn't, they can fall into a deep depression that can eventually kill them. Any doctor who CARED about his patients wouldn't want that to happen. And he believes that genderfluid people (like me, just fyi) have a difficult time because the US has such rigidly structured gender rolls. We don't see the same amount of gender dysphoria in communities who have more egalitarian gender roles; in fact, some cultures even believe that genderfluid people have a greater, almost magical understanding of the fluidity of the human experience, and in cultures like that, we don't see so many genderfluid people undergoing risky surgery.

His patients report that they feel they will fit into the 'feminine' gender role after surgery (he does tend to work with mostly m2f patients) but they don't. So it's a dangerous surgery that accomplishes nothing. What is really needed, in those cases, is a complete redesign of gender in society where the concept is more or less eradicated. And until that happens (which is slow buisness, ask any feminist or mra) the genderfluid individual is at risk for anxiety or depression and should be treated for it with therapy sessions. Because the cause is external, most medications are proven ineffective, tho he does suggest some prns for intense anxiety attacks.

Something that I wasn't really aware of until reading DrMcHugh's studies is that there is a SHOCKING number of baby boys who get their dicks cut off during circumcision, have infant gender reassignment surgery, and are then raised as girls. Like enough that he could fill a book with them. These girls then hit puberty and start developing male secondary sex characteristics, rather than female, and have to go on hormone therapy, which we all know can cause strokes, blood clots, and the death, and generally have to stay on this therapy for the rest of their lives. So OF COURSE they're going to experience gender dysphoria.

Now, the thing about our human dick technology is that it is pretty much inaccessable to children. It is easier to create a cosmetic, but non functioning set of female genetalia than male on an infant. So that's the path most parents take. However, as an ADULT, when the body has stopped growing, our dick technology game is mad strong. So what McHugh suggests is that parents either 1: Don't be cutting baby dicks at all, since apparently this is a problem and 2: If you HAVE to be cutting baby dicks, and there is an accident, just let him have a deformed dick. Babies are super resilient, it'll heal, and as an adult he can have the reconstructive surgery, or the cosmetic vaginal surgery, or just have his deformed dick and become a stronger person for it. But regardless, it should be the CHILD'S choice not the parents'.

I tend to agree with most of his research and what he's taken away from them. Never does he say that transgender people are mentally defective or that they can't have surgery. He says that gender reassignment surgery is biologically impossible because GENDER is not a biological construct (sex is, and therefore it should be called 'sex realignment surgery') it is a social construct, and the way the surgery is often undertaken is dangerous for his patients. Especially children.

 

[about_average]

I love it when people show suicide rates of people who are persecuted for being out side of society's norm as proof that it's horrible.

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

 

[CandiCame]

I love it when people show suicide rates of people who are persecuted for being out side of society's norm as proof that it's horrible.

He wasn't stating it as proof that trangendered people were horrible. He was stating it because he believed that his treatment plan would be more effective than surgery in suicide prevention.

 

[Lancecastor]

Quick, call Ru Paul!

 

[about_average]

He wasn't stating it as proof that trangendered people were horrible. He was stating it because he believed that his treatment plan would be more effective than surgery in suicide prevention.

I'm sure he wasn't, but I bet that was behind CNS including it.

 

[CandiCame]

Quick, call Ru Paul!

Why? RuPaul's not transgender or affiliated with any Transgendered organizations.

 

[CandiCame]

I'm sure he wasn't, but I bet that was behind CNS including it.

Maybe, since they seem to have done an assload of spinning to get that to sound so negative. Like I said, I've read a lot of his books and damn near all his field and case studies, and I never came away with anything like what they're trying to say. So either they did some heavy editing or the OP did.

 

[Queersetti]

Better Call RuPaul!

Fixed your post.

For real.

 

[Lancecastor]

Why? RuPaul's not transgender or affiliated with any Transgendered organizations.

Okay...call Dennis Rodman!

 

[Queersetti]

Okay...call Dennis Rodman!

There must be dozens of gay porn star wannabes who thought "Dennis RODMAN! Why didn't I think of that?"

 

[CandiCame]

There must be dozens of gay porn star wannabes who thought "Dennis RODMAN! Why didn't I think of that?"

Seriously.

 

[Lancecastor]

There must be dozens of gay porn star wannabes who thought "Dennis RODMAN! Why didn't I think of that?"

I thought it was fairly obvious.

 

[CandiCame]

I thought it was fairly obvious.

I literally missed it until he said that. AND I LOVE PUNS!

 

[BotanyBoy]

you can change religions.

But you can't make them not a mental disorder.

 

[Queersetti]

I thought it was fairly obvious.

And yet, I've not seen any of your videos.

 

[Lancecastor]

And yet, I've not seen any of your videos.

You need 4K Ultra.