Everyone
This is both sides of a coin discussion which I will be neutral for now. I am
not knowledgeable and I don't have
a burning desire to take sides at this time, maybe later.
Stan the neutral man
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From: D.J.J. Ring, Jr. <djringjr@xxxxxxxxx>
To: sparkscoffee <sparkscoffee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sat, Apr 25, 2015 6:06 pm
Subject: [sparkscoffee] Johns Hopkins psychiatrist: Transgender is a mental
disorder; sex change biologically impossible
As many here know homosexuality was the ONLY mental illness removed from the
diagnostic manual not on scientific research but on protests by the social
organizers in San Francisco during one of the meetings of the American
Psychiatric Association back in 1973.
Here is an interesting article.
73
DR
Compassion and common sense dictate that transgenderism is a mental
illness. Society owes it to these poor souls to give them the mental
help that they so desperately need, not to mutilate their genitals.
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/michael-w-chapman/johns-hopkins-psychiatrist-transgender-mental-disorder-sex-change
(CNSNews.com) -- 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.”
“’Sex change’ is biologically impossible,” said McHugh. “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 civil-rights matter and encouraging surgical
intervention is in reality to collaborate with and promote a mental
disorder.”
J Young
jdyoung1@xxxxxxxxx
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