Professor of Psychiatry: Transgender is a mental disorder that merits treatment

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Title: Transgender is 'Mental Disorder', Sex Change 'Biologically Impossible'

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Dr Paul R. McHugh, the former psychiatrist-in-chief for John 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 promote sexual re-assignment surgery are collaborating with and promoting a mental disorder

Dr McGugh, the author of six books and at least 125 peer-reviwed medical articles, made his remarks in a recent commentary in the WSJ, "Transgender surgery isn't the solution" where he explained that transgender surgery is not the solution for people who suffer a "disorder of assumption" - the notion of that their maleness or femaleness is different than what nature assigned to them biologically.

He also reported a new study showing that the suicide rate among transgender people who had re-assignment surgery is 20 times higher than the suicide rate among non-transgender people. Dr McHugh further notes 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"

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 psychological outcomes.

The transgendered person's disorder said Dr McHugh, is in the person's "assumption" that they are different than their 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 think they are overweight.

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". 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

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Paul R McHugh, M.D

University Distinguished Service Professor of Psychiatry

Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

EXPERTISE
Adult Psychiatry, Neuropsychiatry

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Behavioral Research; Psychiatric Education


Absolutely spot on!

Transgenderism is an absurd ideology which has no basis in reality and truth trying to promote the confusions and delusions of a tiny group of people as if they are facts and demanding that everyone else affirms these confusions and delusions.

And the good professor is absolutely correct as biological sex cannot change, because it entirely depends on the chromosomal make up of an individual and in particular the Y-chromosome, believing you are the other gender when you are not is the definition of mental illness/disorder, and those who promote gender re-assignment surgery affirm and promote a mental illness/disorder.

Note that some of the States have barred psychiatrists from helping those minors with this type of disorder to restore the feelings that are compatible with their biological sex. Which is unacceptable! Politics are directly interfering with science and medicine.

a reply to: Asmodeus3

Well, yeah.

Before it was a suddenly a social fad, it was treated as such.

a reply to: Asmodeus3

Hmm where have I heard that same thing before???
Like throughout history things like that are said....and then what generally happens next?
Just think about that.

a reply to: Asmodeus3


Voice of reason from Dr Paul R. McHugh , also chemicals influence thought .

originally posted by: Allaroundyou
a reply to: Asmodeus3

Hmm where have I heard that same thing before???
Like throughout history things like that are said....and then what generally happens next?
Just think about that.

Lol come back to the present that we all live in.

Make your point, you’re nobody’s soothsayer or sage, you don’t get to speak in riddles.

If you must, then nobody cares.

originally posted by: Allaroundyou
a reply to: Asmodeus3

Hmm where have I heard that same thing before???
Like throughout history things like that are said....and then what generally happens next?
Just think about that.

Exactly! Like when they shut down all the insane asylums and institutions. Look what generally happened next. That's what to think about.

NEXT!

originally posted by: Allaroundyou
a reply to: Asmodeus3

Hmm where have I heard that same thing before???
Like throughout history things like that are said....and then what generally happens next?
Just think about that.

Where have you heard the voice of reason?! Pretty much everywhere! It's because insanity that tries to take over unsuccessfully you may have some issues hearing the truth. This insanity is quite loud sometimes...

a reply to: Asmodeus3

Would we be even talking about this if Reagan hadn't defunded all the looney bins?

This professor is wrong. You have to feed these kind of people's delusion and alter their bodies to fit their beliefs, stimulating those beliefs of delusion as real. How else are they going to make lots of moneyif they actually fix people and tell them everyone is different and no sex change is needed to be content.

This professor should lose his crudentials because he is not promoting extra income to the medical and pharmaceudical industry. Psychiatrists if trained right will make money either way.

originally posted by: tamusan
a reply to: Asmodeus3

Would we be even talking about this if Reagan hadn't defunded all the looney bins?

Read deeper. It wasn't Reagan that called for the defunding of asylums, it was the dems that tied it in as part of the economic reforms during his presidency.

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1980: Carter signed the Mental Health Systems Act of 1980.
1981: Reagan pushed to repeal most of the MHSA.


And rather than telling me to read deeper, it is on you to offer proof that it was the Dems who defunded the looney bins. Which you have not.

a reply to: Allaroundyou

We used to have mental hospitals, until Geraldo Rivera did an expose on a badly run one in NY, which launched his career, stimulated legislation that all the states took advantage of to turn people free to live on the streets if they were not a danger, which saved booku bucks for the states, and made the democrats happy. Now they blame Reagan for the homeless problem.

That's the historical path I've witnessed in my lifetime. YMMV

originally posted by: tamusan
a reply to: Moon68


1980: Carter signed the Mental Health Systems Act of 1980.
1981: Reagan pushed to repeal most of the MHSA.


And rather than telling me to read deeper, it is on you to offer proof that it was the Dems who defunded the looney bins. Which you have not.

The MHSA was to be another federally funded welfare program. What was repealed through the Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 81 was a stripping of elements that were 1: already available through established welfare programs and 2: should be handled by the states. It kept the Patient Bill of Rights, which was the backbone of the Presidents Commission on Mental Health that was the basis of MHSA, reverting the onus back to the states with the PBR acting as a recommendation for the states to refine their own policies regarding mental health services.

Addendum: Subtitle J - Orderly Closure, Transfer, and Financial Self-Sufficiency of Public Health Service Hospitals and Clinics - Provides for the closure, by October 31, 1981, of Public Health Service hospitals and clinics which cannot be transferred to State, local, or private operation or become financially self-sufficient and for the transfer or achievement of financial self-sufficiency by September 30, 1982, of those hospitals and clinics which can be so transferred or which can achieve such financial self-sufficiency.

a reply to: stevieray

That you think this is a riddle is funny...

a reply to: Moon68

The result of that was many mentally ill ending up on the streets who shouldn't have been. But look at all the money that the government has saved.

a reply to: Asmodeus3

Not this guy again.

McHugh Exposed: HRC Launches Website Debunking the Junk Science of Paul McHugh

Washington - Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation, the educational arm of the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) civil rights organization, launched McHugh Exposed, a website that pulls back the curtain on the anti-LGBTQ myths and junk science being peddled by Dr. Paul McHugh, the go-to ‘expert’ for anti-equality extremists. The resource includes a detailed timeline of how McHugh’s hateful and damaging essays have been used to target and attack LGBTQ people and a new video featuring renowned LGBTQ health expert, Dr. Tonia Poteat. It can be found at www.McHughExposed.org.

www.hrc.org...

a reply to: stevieray


As another user pointed out, that was no riddle mate.
A Healthcare "professional" using his credentials to discredit a group of people and backed by absolutely zero science....
He is a anti-queer and has been for some time.
To me he is just an old dude stuck in his beliefs and letting those spill over into his professional career.
The dude is smart but also stupid.

By that logic...

Being gay would also need treatment.

Never thought it could be this difficult.

originally posted by: tamusan
a reply to: Asmodeus3

Would we be even talking about this if Reagan hadn't defunded all the looney bins?

Interesting.

Can you point me to the details of the laws that did that? 😀

a reply to: tamusan

Without links we don't actually know anything, but if real, why didn't Bill Clinton (or any other President) re-instate all that when he and Congress had the votes?? 😁