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Johns Hopkins Psychiatrist: Transgender is ‘Mental Disorder'
CNSNews ^ | November 16, 2020 | Michael W. Chapman

Posted on 03/03/2023 11:57:41 AM PST by Ahithophel

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.

Time magazine, June 9, 2014, cover story, The Transgender Tipping Point: America's Next Civil Rights Frontier. (Photo: AP) Time magazine, June 9, 2014, cover story, The Transgender Tipping Point: America's Next Civil Rights Frontier. 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.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: captainobvious; disorder; mentalillness; psychiatrist; suicidal; transgender; unwell
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None dare call it biologically impossible.
1 posted on 03/03/2023 11:57:41 AM PST by Ahithophel
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To: Ahithophel

Prepare to be canceled, 3, 2, 1…


2 posted on 03/03/2023 11:59:32 AM PST by gov_bean_ counter (Eccl 10:2 - The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left.)
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To: Ahithophel

The lunacy that none dare speak its name...


3 posted on 03/03/2023 12:00:11 PM PST by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: Ahithophel

Bravo Dr. McHugh !

Good thing you’re retired, though the fascists are liable to come gunning for you anyway.


4 posted on 03/03/2023 12:01:03 PM PST by tomkat (SOTU = FUBAR)
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To: Ahithophel

Bye bye “Distinguished”.


5 posted on 03/03/2023 12:01:20 PM PST by mikey_hates_everything
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To: Ahithophel

Well thank you, Dr. Obvious. Brave person.


6 posted on 03/03/2023 12:01:44 PM PST by hardspunned (Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
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To: Ahithophel

Always has been.

Similarly, for literally thousands of years people understood the concept of natural immunity. Then, for 3 years, being a recovered COVID victim wasn’t useful — you still just had to get that vaxx. Then, after 3 years, people re-discovered the concept of natural immunity.

And here — Homosexuality and transgenderism were correctly seen as mental illnesses and abnormalities for a very long time. Then, all of a sudden, then were normal. But people will figure it out again eventually.


7 posted on 03/03/2023 12:02:56 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (“You want it one way, but it's the other way”)
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To: tomkat

He can speak freely, precisely because he is retired, and thus not subject to being fired or disciplined.


8 posted on 03/03/2023 12:03:48 PM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Ahithophel

Looks like this psychiatrist has a Marxist death-wish. He just won a free one-way ticket to and permanent all-expenses-paid vacation at the Gulag Archipelago Resort and Spa.


9 posted on 03/03/2023 12:04:17 PM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: Ahithophel

100% correct. And don’t enable delusions.


10 posted on 03/03/2023 12:05:45 PM PST by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Don’t bet on the disciplined part. The Woke Movement will figure out a way to make him pay.


11 posted on 03/03/2023 12:06:04 PM PST by RoosterRedux
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Dr. McHugh has incredible character, has been fighting the good fight for a long time.

Imagine depraved Democrats thinking their opinions mean more than this respected doctor's opinion.

12 posted on 03/03/2023 12:06:32 PM PST by Vision (Woke is communism and it has no place in America. Election Reform Now! Obama is an evildoer.)
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To: Ahithophel

You mean to tell me sticking your dick in a blender is an insane idea?


13 posted on 03/03/2023 12:08:52 PM PST by packagingguy
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To: Ahithophel

“Hello, Suicide HotLine? Hillary Clinton gave me your number.”


14 posted on 03/03/2023 12:08:57 PM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: Ahithophel

It is not a minor mental disorder. It is CRAZY!


15 posted on 03/03/2023 12:10:38 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: Ahithophel

He’ll be fired and trashed. His books will be pulled. Insane animals will yell and scream at him. Because he said the truth.


16 posted on 03/03/2023 12:11:48 PM PST by I want the USA back (News media and democrats are pond scum. My pronouns: Haha, heehee, hoho, hoo hoo. )
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Thank you Dr MgHugh!
18 posted on 03/03/2023 12:13:42 PM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized of man.)
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To: packagingguy

Ask Admiral Levine.


19 posted on 03/03/2023 12:14:49 PM PST by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: gov_bean_ counter
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.

Hopefully it's the start of some push-back.

20 posted on 03/03/2023 12:15:20 PM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized of man.)
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