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A prominent psychiatrist, at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Dr. Paul R McHugh,
claims that transgender individuals suffer from a form of mental illness and that Gender Reassignment is �biologically impossible.�

On the heels of the American College of Pediatrics Reaching the Decision that Transgenderism of Children is Child Abuse (click and read!), people are
melting down everywhere!

To be clear � people should be treated very seriously when attempting to rectify their feelings with surgery or dangerous hormone treatments because they do need help and fast. Can people reasonably disagree about a cure?

Can people also agree that children should not be making these choices?

Dr, McHugh also states that people who endorse gender reassignment are in
fact supporting a mental disorder.

According to CNS News:
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.�

Dr. McHugh concludes his piece claiming that those who support gender reassignment support a mental disorder:
At the heart of the problem is confusion over the nature of the
transgendered. �Sex change� is biologically impossible. 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.


https://www.frontlinesnews.com/2019/08/22/johns-hopkins-chief-psychiatrist-transgender-is-a-mental-disorder.html

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