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This article is very interesting.

"Transgender Surgery Isn't the Solution" by Paul McHugh in the WSJ

http://tinyurl.com/nfngtmz

When children who reported transgender 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.

A 2011 ...Karolinska Institute in Sweden...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 transgendered began to experience increasing mental difficulties. Most shockingly, their suicide mortality rose almost 20-fold above the comparable nontransgender population.

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In our PC-world we aren't supposed to judge those getting transgender surgery, but I've always thought they're probably mentally ill.

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Im pretty sure being gay and confused has been around a lot longer than 60 years...

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Paul McHugh, the author of this article, is a extremely Conservative Catholic. That doesn't necessarily make what he says irrelevant, but if you're going to frame the other side as PC radicals, I don't see why taking the word of another radical is somehow better.

So let's look at what kind of person Paul McHugh is. When the Catholic sex abuse scandal broke out last decade, the Bishops were quick to retain Dr. McHugh as their 'expert' to defend their actions:

"Yet Dr. McHugh once said Johns Hopkins' Sexual Disorders Clinic, which treats molesters, was justified in concealing multiple incidents of child rape and fondling to police, despite a state law requiring staffers to report them.
"We did what we thought was appropriate," said Dr. McHugh, then director of Hopkins' Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, which oversaw the sex clinic. He agreed with his subordinate, clinic head Fred Berlin, who broke the then-new child sexual abuse law on the grounds that it might keep child molesters from seeking treatment."

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2002/aug/21/20020821-041050-7378r/



"McHugh has spent his career imposing his religious beliefs on the bodies of others and on the practices of peers. One Tiller patient was a 10-year-old girl, 28 weeks pregnant, who had been raped by an adult relative. McHugh said that while the girl’s case was “terrible,” it did not change his assessment: “She did not have something irreversible that abortion could correct.”"

http://www.tsroadmap.com/info/paul-mchugh.html

So, in just a quick google search, we find the author of this article you posted supports child molesters, believes he has the right to lie to police to protect these molesters and thinks children who are the victims of rape and incest should be forced to carry their pregnancies to term. Ok, now we have a better idea of the source.

Now let's consider the content of his argument, which is difficult to do since he himself doesn't actually link to any of the data. You quote his numbers of 70-80% of children who reported transgender feelings losing those feelings as they got older. First of all, that's a pretty big gap, 70-80%, for such a definitive study. Especially when in the next sentence he states that 25% of those children never lost those feelings. So, is it 75% of kids who changed their minds? I'm confused. Probably because the data isn't definitive, or he's misrepresenting it.

Second, what is meant by "transgender feelings"? Is it a 5 year old boy who wants to wear a dress? Is it an 8 year old girl who wants to play football? Or is it a young child that actually articulated that they wished to change gender? We don't know, because again the actual study was not linked. All we got were vague and easily digestible conclusions by someone with an already stated agenda.

But now he tells us that we should be alarmed because transgender advocates have forced states to bar parents from 'correcting' this behaviour. Again, what does that mean? I certainly don't know. But in a country with a thriving 'pray the gay away' industry, it's hard to believe it's illegal for parents to try to force their kids to conform to a gender. What's more likely is that these laws bar excessive force like locking their kids in psychiatric institutions. This 'pressure' from transgender activists is likely the pressure to take transgender inclinations off the mental illness list.

Oh, but some states are forcing hormones that stunt growth down these kids' throats. And I'm sure if this was actually happening, at least in the alarming numbers Dr. McHugh says it is, he would have ample examples to cite in the article. Yet he fails to mention even one. Strange.

As for the other study that proved transgendered people have a higher depression and suicide rate, if common sense is not enough to help you understand that then you seem to be devoid of the same empathy that Mr. McHugh lacks. Depression and suicide is also much higher in the gay community, and has historically been used as proof that they are therefore scientifically diseased. But hey, why consider the fact that being born a small minority that is harassed, discriminated against, violently targeted and abused by those in power get into the equation? Never let reality get in the way of a good political rant.

Is there a discussion to be had about transgenderism and sexual reassignment surgery? Of course there is. I'm just not sure a guy who protects child molesters while advocating 10 year olds give birth to products of incest is the right guy to start it. We should probably listen to those most involved with it before we start attaching sensationalist terms like "PC" and "Liberal" to it. We should probably consider the source of articles and opinions before we accept them as truth.

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