I’ll add my 2 cents to this discussion. Mental health challenges are common. In fact, one in five people will experience a mental illness like depression or anxiety. But unfortunately, in the transgender community, that number is even higher at nearly one in two. Even worse, 41 percent have attempted suicide.
 
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.” While the liberalism from the former Obama administration, Hollywood, and major media such as Time magazine promote transgenderism as normal, said Dr. McHugh, these “policy makers and the media are doing no favors either to the public or the transgendered by treating their confusions as a right in need of defending rather than as a mental disorder that deserves understanding, treatment and prevention.” They are feeding into their delusions.
 
I went through a tomboy phase from about 5 to 10 years of age. I played with boys my age as I didn’t have much in common with the girls. I found boys more interesting than girls. I climbed trees, played sports, collected baseball cards, flipped baseball cards on the playground at school. I owed Tonka trucks instead of dolls, had an awesome hot wheel’s collection. But I outgrew that phase in my life and had I’d been a tomboy NOW as a child, my teacher could decide for me to have a sex reassignment surgery without my parents’ permission. That’s insanity to me now.ReplyCancel