John Hopkins Psychiatrist: Transgenderism Is A Mental Illness
Sean Adl-Tabatabai
YourNewsWire.com
May 12, 2017
A John Hopkins psychiatrist claims that transgenderism is a mental illness that should be diagnosed and treated accordingly.
According to Dr. Paul R. McHugh, former chief psychiatrist at the John Hopkins Hospital, transgenderism merits psychiatric treatment and not sexual reassignment surgery, which he says does not biologically change a persons sex anyway.
Cnsnews.com reports: 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.”
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