Johns Hopkins Psychiatrist: ‘Transgendered Men Don’t Become Women,’ They Become ‘Feminized Men,’ ‘Impersonators’
It is amazing that liberals can't see that transgender people are sick people. You would encourage an anorexic person to continue down their same path. No you would try to help them. Yet these liberals are telling us to help these sick people.
I fully support gay rights. They should be free from discrimination harassment and have the right to marry. However, transgender a are mentally disturbed people and we need to treat it as a mental disorder and not encourage it!
Dr. Paul R. McHugh, the Distinguished Service Professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University and former psychiatrist–in-chief for Johns Hopkins Hospital, who has studied transgendered people for 40 years, said it is a scientific fact that “transgendered men do not become women, nor do transgendered women become men.”
All such people, he explained in an article for The Witherspoon Institute, “become feminized men or masculinized women, counterfeits or impersonators of the sex with which they ‘identify.’”
Dr. McHugh, who was psychiatrist-in-chief at Johns Hopkins Hospital for 26 years, the medical institute that had initially pioneered sex-change surgery – and later ceased the practice – stressed that the cultural meme, or idea that “one’s sex is fluid and a matter of choice” is extremely damaging, especially to young people.
“In fact, gender dysphoria—the official psychiatric term for feeling oneself to be of the opposite sex—belongs in the family of similarly disordered assumptions about the body, such as anorexia nervosa and body dysmorphic disorder,” said McHugh.
“Its treatment should not be directed at the body as with surgery and hormones any more than one treats obesity-fearing anorexic patients with liposuction,” he said
It is amazing that liberals can't see that transgender people are sick people. You would encourage an anorexic person to continue down their same path. No you would try to help them. Yet these liberals are telling us to help these sick people.
I fully support gay rights. They should be free from discrimination harassment and have the right to marry. However, transgender a are mentally disturbed people and we need to treat it as a mental disorder and not encourage it!