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I have always felt that q***rs, homo's or wh**ever you want to call them have elevators that miss a floor or two and should seek mental help to get straight.



http://www.infowars.com/former-johns-hopkins-chief-of-psychiatry-being-t*********r-is-a-mental-disorder-biologically-impossible/

Unclet Loc: Amarillo, Tx

I could care less about what anyone perceives their "orientation" to be, or when they come to that realization. They are welcome to be wh**ever or whoever they want, as long as it doesn't interfere with anyone else.

But that is not the current method of operating, they want everyone to capitulate and accept their "choice" and celebrate their courage. In addition they want us to pay for it, wrong. You want it, you pay for it, or suffer in silence.

no propaganda please Loc: moon orbiting the third rock from the sun

More on the subject from Dr. McHugh
T*********r Surgery Isn't the Solution
A drastic physical change doesn't address underlying psycho-social troubles.
By
Paul McHugh
June 12, 2014 7:19 p.m. ET
269 COMMENTS

The government and media alliance advancing the t*********r cause has gone into overdrive in recent weeks. On May 30, a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services review board ruled that Medicare can pay for the "reassignment" surgery sought by the t*********red—those who say that they don't identify with their biological sex. Earlier last month Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said that he was "open" to lifting a ban on t*********r individuals serving in the military. Time magazine, seeing the trend, ran a cover story for its June 9 issue called "The T*********r Tipping Point: America's next civil rights frontier."

Yet policy makers and the media are doing no favors either to the public or the t*********red by treating their confusions as a right in need of defending rather than as a mental disorder that deserves understanding, treatment and prevention. This intensely felt sense of being t*********red constitutes a mental disorder in two respects. The first is that the idea of sex misalignment is simply mistaken—it does not correspond with physical reality. The second is that it can lead to grim psychological outcomes.

The t*********red suffer a disorder of "assumption" like those in other disorders familiar to psychiatrists. With the t*********red, the disordered assumption is that the individual differs from what seems given in nature—namely one's maleness or femaleness. Other kinds of disordered assumptions are held by those who suffer from anorexia and bulimia nervosa, where the assumption that departs from physical reality is the belief by the dangerously thin that they are overweight.
A man who looks into the mirror and sees himself as a woman ENLARGE
A man who looks into the mirror and sees himself as a woman Getty Images

With body dysmorphic disorder, an often socially crippling condition, the individual is consumed by the assumption "I'm ugly." These disorders occur in subjects who have come to believe that some of their psycho-social conflicts or problems will be resolved if they can change the way that they appear to others. Such ideas work like ruling passions in their subjects' minds and tend to be accompanied by a solipsistic argument.

For the t*********red, this argument holds that one's feeling of "g****r" is a conscious, subjective sense that, being in one's mind, cannot be questioned by others. The individual often seeks not just society's tolerance of this "personal t***h" but affirmation of it. Here rests the support for "t*********r e******y," the demands for government payment for medical and surgical treatments, and for access to all sex-based public roles and privileges.

With this argument, advocates for the t*********red have persuaded several states—including California, New Jersey and Massachusetts—to pass laws barring psychiatrists, even with parental permission, from striving to restore natural g****r feelings to a t*********r minor. That government can intrude into parents' rights to seek help in guiding their children indicates how powerful these advocates have become.

How to respond? Psychiatrists obviously must challenge the solipsistic concept that what is in the mind cannot be questioned. Disorders of consciousness, after all, represent psychiatry's domain; declaring them off-limits would eliminate the field. Many will recall how, in the 1990s, an accusation of parental sex abuse of children was deemed unquestionable by the solipsists of the "recovered memory" craze.

You won't hear it from those championing t*********r e******y, but controlled and follow-up studies reveal fundamental problems with this movement. When children who reported t*********r feelings were tracked without medical or surgical treatment at both Vanderbilt University and London's Portman Clinic, 70%-80% of them spontaneously lost those feelings. Some 25% did have persisting feelings; what differentiates those individuals remains to be discerned.

We at Johns Hopkins University—which in the 1960s was the first American medical center to venture into "sex-reassignment surgery"—launched a study in the 1970s comparing the outcomes of t*********red people who had the surgery with the outcomes of those who did not. Most of the surgically treated patients described themselves as "satisfied" by the results, but their subsequent psycho-social adjustments were no better than those who didn't have the surgery. And so at Hopkins we stopped doing sex-reassignment surgery, since producing a "satisfied" but still troubled patient seemed an inadequate reason for surgically amputating normal organs.

It now appears that our long-ago decision was a wise one. A 2011 study at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden produced the most illuminating results yet regarding the t*********red, evidence that should give advocates pause. The long-term study—up to 30 years—followed 324 people who had sex-reassignment surgery. The study revealed that beginning about 10 years after having the surgery, the t*********red began to experience increasing mental difficulties. Most shockingly, their suicide mortality rose almost 20-fold above the comparable nont*********r population. This disturbing result has as yet no explanation but probably reflects the growing sense of isolation reported by the aging t*********red after surgery. The high suicide rate certainly challenges the surgery prescription.

There are subgroups of the t*********red, and for none does "reassignment" seem apt. One group includes male prisoners like Pvt. Bradley Manning, the convicted national-security leaker who now wishes to be called Chelsea. Facing long sentences and the rigors of a men's prison, they have an obvious motive for wanting to change their sex and hence their prison. Given that they committed their crimes as males, they should be punished as such; after serving their time, they will be free to reconsider their g****r.

Another subgroup consists of young men and women susceptible to suggestion from "everything is normal" sex education, amplified by Internet chat groups. These are the t*********r subjects most like anorexia nervosa patients: They become persuaded that seeking a drastic physical change will banish their psycho-social problems. "Diversity" counselors in their schools, rather like cult leaders, may encourage these young people to distance themselves from their families and offer advice on rebutting arguments against having t*********r surgery. Treatments here must begin with removing the young person from the suggestive environment and offering a counter-message in family therapy.

Then there is the subgroup of very young, often prepubescent children who notice distinct sex roles in the culture and, exploring how they fit in, begin imitating the opposite sex. Misguided doctors at medical centers including Boston's Children's Hospital have begun trying to treat this behavior by administering puberty-delaying hormones to render later sex-change surgeries less onerous—even though the drugs stunt the children's growth and risk causing sterility. Given that close to 80% of such children would abandon their confusion and grow naturally into adult life if untreated, these medical interventions come close to child abuse. A better way to help these children: with dev**ed parenting.

At the heart of the problem is confusion over the nature of the t*********red. "S*x c****e" 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.

Dr. McHugh, former psychiatrist in chief at Johns Hopkins Hospital, is the author of "Try to Remember: Psychiatry's Clash Over Meaning, Memory, and Mind" (Dana Press, 2008).
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Features

The Operation That Can Ruin Your Life
JULIE BINDEL
November 2009


A photographic exhibition at the Hammer Museum, University of California Los Angeles, shows a comparative study between teenage girls and adult male-to-female t***ssexuals

Last year, I was nominated for the Stonewall Journalist of the Year award. This seemed fair enough since I write prolifically about sexuality and sexual identity. But I guessed that Stonewall would not dare give me the prize, because a powerful lobby affiliated with the lesbian and gay communities had been hounding me for five years. Six weeks later I, along with a police escort, walked past a huge demonstration of t***ssexuals and their supporters, shouting "Bindel the Bigot". Despite campaigning against g****r discrimination, rape, child abuse and domestic violence for 30 years, I have been labelled a bigot because of a column I wrote in 2004 that questioned whether a s*x c****e would make someone a woman or simply a man without a penis. Subsequently, I was "no platformed" by the National Union of Students Women's Campaign, a privilege previously afforded to f*****t groups such as the BNP. As a leading feminist writer, I now find that a number of organisations are too frightened to ask me to speak at public events for fear of protests by t***ssexual lobbyists.

The 2004 column was about a Canadian male-to-female t***ssexual who had taken a rape crisis centre to court over its decision not to invite her to be a counsellor for rape victims. Feminists tend to be critical of traditional g****r roles because they benefit men and oppress women. T***ssexualism, by its nature, promotes the idea that it is "natural" for boys to play with guns and girls to play with Barbie dolls. The idea that g****r roles are biologically determined rather than socially constructed is the antithesis of feminism.

I wrote: "Those who ‘t***sition' seem to become stereotypical in their appearance — f**k-me shoes and birds' nest hair for the boys; beards, muscles and tattoos for the girls. Think about a world inhabited just by t***ssexuals. It would look like the set of Grease."

G****r dysphoria (GD) was invented in the 1950s by reactionary male psychiatrists in an era when men were men and women were doormats. It is a term used to describe someone who feels strongly that they should belong to the opposite sex and that they were born in the wrong body. GD has no proven genetic or physiological basis.

A review for the Guardian in 2005 of more than 100 international medical studies of post-operative t***ssexuals by the University of Birmingham's Aggressive Research Intelligence Facility found no robust scientific evidence that g****r reassignment surgery was clinically effective. It warned that the results of many g****r reassignment studies were unsound because researchers lost track of more than half of the participants.

The past decade has seen an increase in the number of people diagnosed as t***ssexual. There are now 1,500-1,600 new referrals a year to one of the handful of g****r identity clinics in Britain. About 1,200 receive treatment on the NHS with the rest going private, Thailand being the main country of choice. The largest clinic, at Charing Cross Hospital in London, saw 780 new referrals last year. The NHS carried out some 150 operations in the last year (up from about 100 in 2005-2006). Apart from Thailand, the country with the highest number of sex-change operations is Iran where, homosexuality is illegal and punishable by death. When sex-change surgery is performed on gay men, they become, in the eyes of the g****r defenders, heterosexual women. T***ssexual surgery becomes modern-day aversion therapy for gays and lesbians.

Unclet Loc: Amarillo, Tx

:thumbup: :thumbup: Thanks for the post.

no propaganda please Loc: moon orbiting the third rock from the sun

You are welcome. There is a great deal of information out there, but sometimes it is well hidden. you might want to look at a thread called T***sabled vrs Trnasg****red, part of the L***Q agenda.

Unclet Loc: Amarillo, Tx

I have not absorbed all that you wrote, need to read and think about what is there. I was/am thanking you for your efforts. Will check out the thread you posted. Again Thanks.

no propaganda please Loc: moon orbiting the third rock from the sun

This is also worth considering

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The World of Anti-Ex-Gay Psychological Contradictions

by aflame @ Friday, 07. Feb, 2014 – 11:01:44

Over the next few posts I want to look at the evidence for and against homosexuality being normal or a disease. But before that I want to try and answer a question - by offering therapy to overcome unwanted homosexual feelings are therapists calling homosexuality a disease? Or does something we see as unhealthy behaviour have to be a disease or psychological condition?

If you are a gay rights activist, a member of such "professional" bodies as the American Psychological Association, the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy, the British Psychological Society and even the UK's Association of Christian Counselling, or a Member of Parliament who wants to discredit those who offers therapy to overcome unwanted homosexual feelings the answer - where homosexuality is concerned at least - is yes. But let's look at another issue, that of gang membership.

Over the last couple of decades we have seen an increase, particularly in inner cities. Sociologists and social psychologists see the roots of this behaviour as need for masculine companionship and sense of belonging, fatherlessness, and a need for masculine affirmation amongst other issues for male gangs with similar issues for so-called "girl gangs". Many gangs have lifestyles that involve gun and/or knife violence, the use of heavy drugs. Would we call this behaviour healthy? Would we tell those who work to help gang members leave the lifestyle and deal with the issues that have led to them making that lifestyle choice not to because gang membership is not a disease? Yet this is exactly how we treat those who offer to help those who reject the gay identity and want to leave.

There is a huge inconsistency between how psychologists and therapists deal with homosexuality and other issues. Reparative therapy is to be frowned on because it presumes the client wants a specific theraputic outcome. Yet everyday therapists presume that the client wants a specific theraputic outcome when the speak about overcoming an eating disorder, kicking an addiction, stopping self-harming. As a therapist am I to presume that the client does not want to overcome his body dysmorphia when he tells me that is his aim? Then why am I not allowed to presume an outcome is desired when a client says they want to overcome unwanted homosexual feelings. And how about gay affirmative therapy? The therapist is presuming the outcome that the client will not only accept their homosexual feelings but that this will always be a healthy outcome. Not only are you, as a therapist, to presume that the client does not actually want the outcome of overcoming unwanted homosexual feelings but you are to presume that the client actually wants the complete opposite.

This type of double thinking is becoming the norm and is encouraged - yet makes no sense unless you have a political motivation. It is this unthinking double standard that is behind the efforts to ban sexual orientation change efforts, but you wont get the activists to admit this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRP8m0W8jJ0
short video
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/06/03/repentant-t***ssexual-warns-jenner-the-hangover-is-coming/
short article