Johns Hopkins Psychiatrist: Transgender is ‘Mental Disorder;' Sex Change ‘Biologically Impossible’

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Here in Portugal, you have a movement atempting to stop the “patholization” of the Transgendered situation, exactly because of the therapists.

When someone goes to the doctor with this kind of problem, he/she usualy spends years agonizing on the subject, and building courage to actualy come forward with it, talking to a doctor. But most doctors here treat this people with such disdain and rudeness that they are often one of the reasons why transgendered and transsexual people take their lives.

You don’t want to feel bad for years, decide to get some sort of treatment, than be treateted like if you were a creature made of snot and mucus instead of a human being, no? That tends to create way worst problems.

And I’m saying this because my academic godchild is a transgendered person who got “into the system” [The Nacional Sexual Reassigment Surgury System] recently because nobody hires a girl with beard and male looks, and (s)he tells me how she’s being treated. Like disgusting wet and stincky garbage.
That’s an interesting perspective and no one deserves to be treated like disgusting wet and stinky grabage. I will hope and pray that some change in this attitude among therapists ensues and persons struggling as such are treated as persons struggling with issues.

Mary.
and your Godchild and all struggling
 
That’s an interesting perspective and no one deserves to be treated like disgusting wet and stinky grabage. I will hope and pray that some change in this attitude among therapists ensues and persons struggling as such are treated as persons struggling with issues.

Mary.
and your Godchild and all struggling
I pray for that everyday, Mary. As for the “wet and disgusting garbage” that one came from Michael, my academic godchild.

In this country, only Divine Intervention can actualy change something, since this situation is caused mainly because Medics here are chosen for highest Grades in Chemistry, Physics and Math [The average to get in the course is of 19 points in 20…basicly, you need to have an A or A- at every single subject you had on High School to get in], which leads to having only people which lack an emotional and sympathetic side and an overdeveloped mathematical sense as therapists and medics, treating their pacients like garbage. To “common” people is bad enough, but for transgendered, or suspected transgendered people, it’s terrible and I speak for experience on this one.
 
I pray for that everyday, Mary. As for the “wet and disgusting garbage” that one came from Michael, my academic godchild.

In this country, only Divine Intervention can actualy change something, since this situation is caused mainly because Medics here are chosen for highest Grades in Chemistry, Physics and Math [The average to get in the course is of 19 points in 20…basicly, you need to have an A or A- at every single subject you had on High School to get in], which leads to having only people which lack an emotional and sympathetic side and an overdeveloped mathematical sense as therapists and medics, treating their pacients like garbage. To “common” people is bad enough, but for transgendered, or suspected transgendered people, it’s terrible and I speak for experience on this one.
That’s an interesting point regarding qualifications to be a Medic or therapist and the resulting lack of an emotional and sympathetic side. It makes sense to me.
Something to certainly ponder regarding what traits and qualities might make better therapists and medics…

Mary.
 
That’s an interesting point regarding qualifications to be a Medic or therapist and the resulting lack of an emotional and sympathetic side. It makes sense to me.
Something to certainly ponder regarding what traits and qualities might make better therapists and medics…

Mary.
In my opinion, medics and therapists should have as a requirement to have the ability to establish empathic bonds. To have an all mathematics and logic oriented set of requirements to be on the Health Sciences is ridiculous. If a person wants to be treated by someone with the psychological depth of a soul-less computer, then he’d be better off searching the internet for his symptoms, diagnostics and forms of curing the issue.

At least you don’t get this sort of dialog
Pacient with cardio-respiratoty insufficience: My lungs hurt and my heart keeps hurting. Here are my exams.
Medic: takes off glasses and glanses at the exam…uh uh…if you quit smoking everything will be fine.
Note that this is an actual dialog I’ve witnessed. That pacient is a relative of mine which asked me to acompany him. If the doctor cared a little for his pacients, he wouldn’t be advertizing “stop smoking” as a panaceia to heal everything instead of prescribing medication to help my family member to breathe when he doesen’t even smokes!
 
We all suffer in this world, it would be of great value to recognize that, and turn to God for Peace, When we know that he is our only Savior will we find peace.
I find it incredibly scary that there seem to be people out there who hold the belief that all problems can be fixed by prayer/faith alone or, indeed, that some problems aren’t really problems at all and are just imaginary.

Yes, there are a lot of troubled people out there, for whatever reason. But faith alone isn’t going to help them. If it did, why did God give us the ability to devise treatments for illnesses, medicine, etc?

Does a person who is suffering from a gender identity issue have to labour under that issue in the name of subscribing to a particular religious belief and be denied access to the medical treatments that are out there because that religious belief (which, presumably, they don’t share) says that they’re wrong to try and find a medical solution to their problem?

For goodness sake, isn’t it all so hypocritical? On the one hand people denounce those who seek to fix a problem with their gender identity using medicine, but encourage others (those who are homosexual) to make all possible efforts to change themselves!

I really am getting totally fed up with the two-facedness of so many people on this.
 
I find it incredibly scary that there seem to be people out there who hold the belief that all problems can be fixed by prayer/faith alone or, indeed, that some problems aren’t really problems at all and are just imaginary.

Yes, there are a lot of troubled people out there, for whatever reason. But faith alone isn’t going to help them. If it did, why did God give us the ability to devise treatments for illnesses, medicine, etc?

Does a person who is suffering from a gender identity issue have to labour under that issue in the name of subscribing to a particular religious belief and be denied access to the medical treatments that are out there because that religious belief (which, presumably, they don’t share) says that they’re wrong to try and find a medical solution to their problem?

For goodness sake, isn’t it all so hypocritical? On the one hand people denounce those who seek to fix a problem with their gender identity using medicine, but encourage others (those who are homosexual) to make all possible efforts to change themselves!

I really am getting totally fed up with the two-facedness of so many people on this.
Amen to that!
 
When the urethra is cut, it leaves scars, so urination becomes an iffy proposition forever and ever. Transsexual surgery is genital mutilation and should be outlawed, and the high suicide rate may not be failed adaptation but to the horrific consequences of this scar-inducing surgery and the attendant hormone cocktails that can induce depression.
 
I do not have any statistics so I do not know what % of people have tried to end their life either before telling others they are transgender or want to be, or after.

Out of the two people I know, one attempted suicide when they were a teenager, due to the fact they do not understand what was happening to them. The other never tried to commit suicide.

I think many people can go on to live a “normal” life, just as gay people can live normally, but if rejected due to a lack of understanding, that can push people into ending their life.

I don’t mean that we’d all need to fully understand every sort of mental problem in order to be able to not look at people as though they are not human, the word I think that covers it is compassion.

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When the urethra is cut, it leaves scars, so urination becomes an iffy proposition forever and ever. Transsexual surgery is genital mutilation and should be outlawed, and the high suicide rate may not be failed adaptation but to the horrific consequences of this scar-inducing surgery and the attendant hormone cocktails that can induce depression.
Suicide rate among transgender individuals who have received surgery is significantly lower than among those who have not received any sort of treatment. The Swedish study used non-transgender people as controls, so the only valid conclusion that can be drawn from it is that SRS does not solve all problems, and that many patients will still need therapeutical support post-op, which is obvious. The researchers point this out themselves in the conclusions of the study.

Using this study to deny the efficiency of the procedure, like McHugh does, is like saying that “patients who have received cancer treatment have a higher mortality rate than the general population, hence cancer treatment is ineffective and should not be used”. But this would be absurd; the treatment may have extended their lives with months, years or even decades. Using the Swedish study to reject the positive effects of SRS is equally absurd.

McHugh abuses this (and other studies) to further his ideologically based agenda. If he (and you) were able to enforce your ideas, and outlaw transgender surgery, the suicide rate would rise. This is well documented by statistics.

All this said, the most important part of treatment in all transgender individuals is hormone therapy. For many, that is sufficient to enable them to live good lives. SRS should be approached cautiously and only as a last resort, but it is invaluable in those cases where the patient has severe genital dysphoria. Period.

Edit: And by the way, hormone replacement therapy tends to alleviate depression in transgender individuals, not induce it. There are numerous causes of people having multiple psychiatric diagnoses prior to starting hormone therapy, who were able to stop taking all psychiatric medication after a while on hormones, since that was what they really needed - it was the underlying condition.
 
I’m sure everybody recognise’s that we all suffer.

I’m no expert on this issue, but I have experienced two people who made the change. I can say I saw an improvement for those people in their lives. This may not be the case for everyone. Where I believe a problem may lie is when others can not accept people who change, cutting them off from family and community.

People can be very much willing to turn to God and still take their own life, this I have seen happen in my parish. So very sad when no one can do anything to prevent it.
Not everyone ask God for help, and follows his will in dealing with their suffering. Just recognizing suffer and living in your suffering will only bring you more pain.

Most people may see another person suffering from this mental disorder and have great sympathy for them. Seeing another human suffer should always bring great compassion and love. That doesn’t mean I agree with their remedy to mutilate their body. Again the answer is Jesus Christ. Mental disorders are not cured by surgical means.
 
Not everyone ask God for help, and follows his will in dealing with their suffering. Just recognizing suffer and living in your suffering will only bring you more pain.

Most people may see another person suffering from this mental disorder and have great sympathy for them. Seeing another human suffer should always bring great compassion and love. That doesn’t mean I agree with their remedy to mutilate their body. Again the answer is Jesus Christ. Mental disorders are not cured by surgical means.
Hi,
This is so difficult. If you read Romans 13: 1-5 do you know what that says and means? It say and means that God tells us He makes laws for civlian governments, and we are to follow those laws. The civilian laws even the Federal Government of America say, if you are transgendered, you are to get medical help, which includes hormones and includes surgery. Not everyone needs everything, but it amazing how just getting hormones helps relieve the suffering of the transgendered.
Do you know what that means, in the context of Romans 13 1-5? It means the church is not following what God says to do in the Bible. Are they allowed to ignore the Bible? Are they?
A clue is the government also told them what to do about pedophiles, and they did not follow Gods Laws as described in Romans 13 1-5. They chose another course of action, from the laws of the civilians in every country of the world that I know of. Transgenderism and even Homosexuality are covered by civilian laws.

On another issue that of the Catechism and one even on Saints and their perceived infallibility consider that both have shown errors from time to time over the years. One such item is that of unbaptized babies who die. That was treated as the topic of Limbo, in the Cathechism and as a lesser Hell by Saint Augustine.

What does that mean?

If Augustine and The Church are totally infallible, then babies for years were sent to Hell, by God.

Later Limbo, was removed from the Catechism.

What does that mean to most Catholics?

It means that from then on, babies who were not baptized no longer went to Hell, as Augustine said.

Augustine is a Saint. People think every thought and word out of a Saint’s mouth is infallible.
The Catechism is made by the Catholic Church, and they changed it. That too is considered infallible by Catholics, in their opinions. So to Catholics, infallibility is changeable? No. Saints and the Catechism are infallible, only ex-cathedra items, only those, are infallible, nothing else they say or saints say is. Nothing else, except if they are telling us something that God told them. Then that is infallible, but never ever called that and not actually usable that way anymore since roughly 50AD.
Now it is considered just private revelation and no matter how true it is, it is not considered something all of us have to follow.

The problem was and is neither Saints in all their words, and neither the Catechism is really infallible. They are not, and you can check on this, but please, please, please do not just find a person who agreees with you, listen to those who do not also. Did not God say to test all things? If He did, you must test, and to do that requires you know all there is.

On the issue of intersex, where babies are born with ambiguous genitilia, John Hopkins made a horrible horrible mistake, and was able to get the whole world to follow them in their thoughts. Years later, meaning now their mistakes are no longer followed and the intersex lead fuller nicer lives.
John Hopkins is not only not infallible, they have made huge world wide mistakes before, and should you listen only to them, on the issue of being Transgendered, then?

This John Hopkins Psychiatrist is widely known, not narrowly, but widely known to not use science correctly on this issue. He is known a pushing his own personal opinion, for whatever reasons he is doing that.
He in the world of transgender science is one of the few, who do not agree with all of the other observations and work out there. That would be fine, if his words were accurtate, as he could be the only one telling the truth. Suicides are dramatically lowered in that community now. When suicide rates are compared to treated and non treated transgendered folks, the suicide rate, is much lower in those who are treated.
So, how could he site a report, that says otherwise, bringing up fears of a cover up? That is an unknown to this research scientist. Almost all countries now face this issue now, not that it hasn’t been around for thousands of years, and all of them are finding that it is not a mental condition, and treating this works.
Did you know that Europe and America have books talking about Psychiatric conditions. In America this is not a mental condition. It is stated as such. I don’t think it is stated as a mental condition in England, or in Europe. Only that Psychiatrist says otherwise. Did you know that long term no one but no one has ever been cured of trangender conditions? Not one single person who has gone to therapy either has been cured of transgenderism. Not one. Yet, the horrors of their condition is relieved by what is called transition. Transition is also known by another name therapeutically, it is the only treatment that has ever been shown to work.
Love,
…Kate.
 
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