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Bradley Manning suicidal .... not unexpected:

Former Johns Hopkins head psychiatrist: ‘transgender surgery isn’t the solution’

In his op-ed, McHugh cited a 2011 study that followed "324 sex-reassigned persons" from 1973 to 2003 in Sweden. According to the study’s abstract, it found that "persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, suicidal behaviour, and psychiatric morbidity than the general population."

"Our findings suggest that sex reassignment, although alleviating gender dysphoria, may not suffice as treatment for transsexualism, and should inspire improved psychiatric and somatic care after sex reassignment for this patient group,” the authors wrote.

The study, McHugh wrote in his op-ed, found that “beginning about 10 years after having the surgery, the transgendered began to experience increasing mental difficulties. Most shockingly, their suicide mortality rose almost 20-fold above the comparable nontransgender population."

McHugh says that Johns Hopkins "launched a study in the 1970s comparing the outcomes of transgendered people who had the surgery with the outcomes of those who did not."

"Most of the surgically treated patients described themselves as 'satisfied' by the results, but their subsequent psycho-social adjustments were no better than those who didn't have the surgery,” he explained.

Thus, says McHugh, "we stopped doing sex-reassignment surgery, since producing a 'satisfied' but still troubled patient seemed an inadequate reason for surgically amputating normal organs."

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Another excellent article:

Transgenderism: A Pathogenic Meme

By the way, the Left vilifies Dr. McHugh & refers to him as "The Doctor Social Conservatives Depend On To Justify Anti-Transgender Hate".

They don't want to hear the truth. I was a huge tennis buff in my teens and this stuff always reminds me of Dr. Renee Richards (formerly Richard Raskin).

I keep thinking of these young people, DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME!!! Richards was a mentally tough SOB who didn't make the change till his forties, and these confused snowflakes ain't got the goods to deal with the consequences. It must be a terrible day when they realize what they've done and it DID NOT WORK.