Singularity wrote:
http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2015/06/10/3668041/paul-mchugh-transgender/
. . . . McHugh specifically states that no evidence supports the claim that people such as Bruce Jenner [sic] have a biological source for their transgender assumptions. Plenty of evidence demonstrates that with him [sic] and most others, transgendering is a psychological rather than a biological matter. To make this claim, McHugh must ignore at least fifteen studies that have found exactly that kind of evidence showing a biological origin for transgender identities.
The reason for this distortion may be McHughs clear intention to not only reject the mental health of transgender people, but to also counterract the meme of acceptance with one of stigma and rejection. The idea that ones sex is fluid and a matter open to choice, he concludes, is doing much damage to families, adolescents, and children and should be confronted as an opinion without biological foundation wherever it emerges.
McHugh ends by setting up the very kind of defensive posture utilized by Anderson and other conservatives seeking to prop up his unscientific views. But gird your loins if you would confront this matter, he warns. Hell hath no fury like a vested interest masquerading as a moral principle.
But the masquerade is McHughs. His approach to transgender support and his general antipathy to the entire LGBT community has already been widely debunked. For example, he regularly claims that surgery does not support the mental health of transgender people, but he does so by citing a study comparing people who had surgery to people who werent even transgender. He also claims that transgender people are simply persuaded by culture that changing their body will solve their other psycho-social problems, which ignores the fact that many transgender people never undergo such surgeries.
For this to even make sense, McHugh must ignore the notion that people who are transgender have psycho-social problems not because they are transgender, but because of how they are tormented by society because they are transgender. A large 2011 study found that transgender people are subject to rampant discrimination, poverty, harassment, and violence because they are transgender. A new study from Canada similarly found high rates of suicide attempts among transgender people, but specifically found that those suicide attempt rates significantly declined when trans people were supported by their parents, when they were able to update their legal documents to match their gender, when they endured less trans-based hate, and when they were able to transition their bodies to match their identities. In other words, McHugh has it totally backwards; it is affirming transgender peoples gender identities and supporting their traditions that helps them do best in society.
And of course, thats what mainstream medicine says too. Thats why the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) in no way resembles or reflects any of McHughs assertions. The WPATH standards of care guide medical professionals across the globe as they help transgender people through their transitions.
For social conservatives, however, Paul McHugh represents a distinguished medical professional. Hes a giant, Anderson boasts. Even though he is one of the only doctors willing to endorse their rejection of transgender people, they still take his word over the consensus of doctors who have helped thousands of transgender people live happier, healthier lives.
http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2015/06/10/3668041/p... (
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Just read your ignorant comments.
Now I see why I was warned as a new comer to this site.
Where is your PHd on this as well as what is this loser organization? 3 idiots and a computer in SF called the "WPATH" who also smoke dope, live on welfare and are generally degenerate dregs upon society? Anyone with a blog can be a world expert to some idiot. Look at the losers who still believe the world is flat and man is causing global warming. BTW the Pope believes in GW, just like the Pope believed the earth was the center of the universe.