Johns Hopkins Psychiatrist: It Is Starkly, Nakedly False That Sex Change Is Possible

[mystery-ak]

http://cnsnews.com/commentary/paul-mchugh/johns-hopkins-psychiatrist-it-starkly-nakedly-false-sex-change-possible

Johns Hopkins Psychiatrist: It Is Starkly, Nakedly False That Sex Change Is Possible
By Paul McHugh | June 17, 2015 | 9:56 AM EDT

The idea that one’s sex is a feeling, not a fact, has permeated our culture and is leaving casualties in its wake. Gender dysphoria should be treated with psychotherapy, not surgery.

For forty years as the University Distinguished Service Professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins Medical School—twenty-six of which were also spent as Psychiatrist in Chief of Johns Hopkins Hospital—I’ve been studying people who claim to be transgender. Over that time, I’ve watched the phenomenon change and expand in remarkable ways.

A rare issue of a few men—both homosexual and heterosexual men, including some who sought sex-change surgery because they were erotically aroused by the thought or image of themselves as women—has spread to include women as well as men. Even young boys and girls have begun to present themselves as of the opposite sex. Over the last ten or fifteen years, this phenomenon has increased in prevalence, seemingly exponentially. Now, almost everyone has heard of or met such a person.

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[aligncare]

While sorting out how you feel about the doctor's argument, chew on this: it's been estimated Jenner stands to make 500 million on TV and other revenue from this late-life gender conversion.

Seems to me that's one factor that complicates making a clean medical diagnosis.

[musiclady]

Fascinating article.

Sexual identity is not about feelings, it's about facts.

That's why the left cannot grasp the concept.   Feelings are all they know.

[musiclady]

While sorting out how you feel about the doctor's argument, chew on this: it's been estimated Jenner stands to make 500 million on TV and other revenue from this late-life gender conversion.

Seems to me that's one factor that complicates making a clean medical diagnosis.

I think the fact that Bruce sees women as pin-ups is very revealing (pun intended).

No healthy woman sees herself the way Bruce appeared on Vanity Fair's cover.

The argument that he's in love with himself as a woman makes a lot of sense.

IOW, he's a very sick man.

[mountaineer]

It's sad. If only he saw himself as God sees him.

[truth_seeker]

Why is this so fascinating to "conservatives?" The man said he was conservative.

Two candidates for the GOP Presidential nomination made friendly remarks, about Jenner.

[mountaineer]

I think we can comment without actually being "fascinated" by the subject. Mildly interested is enough for me.

[musiclady]

Why is this so fascinating to "conservatives?" The man said he was conservative.

Two candidates for the GOP Presidential nomination made friendly remarks, about Jenner.

We're merely reacting to the fascination of the left with sexual abnormality.

And you're reacting to the reaction.... not the source of the fascination.

The left is shoving their abnormal concepts and slavish devotion to all things sexual on us day after day after day.

Look to the source, t_s, and not to the response to it.....

[Oceander]

[musiclady]

Facepalms do not negate the fact that Bruce Jenner is a very sick man with a sexist view of women.

[raml]

God doesn't make mistakes but humans do and why this type of behavior has become popular is beyond me.  It amazes me how sick this country and the world has become over the past 20 years. Most people born after 1975 haven't a clue to what is really normal. TV and movies have made perversion the norm to them. Technology has not made a better world it has destroyed the moral fiber and weakened individuals who no longer think for themselves but are being programmed for our destruction.

[Bigun]

God doesn't make mistakes but humans do and why this type of behavior has become popular is beyond me.  It amazes me how sick this country and the world has become over the past 20 years. Most people born after 1975 haven't a clue to what is really normal. TV and movies have made perversion the norm to them. Technology has not made a better world it has destroyed the moral fiber and weakened individuals who no longer think for themselves but are being programmed for our destruction.

I'm not entirely sure that you even know just how right you are!

Congressional Record--Appendix, pp. A34-A35
January 10, 1963

Current Communist Goals

EXTENSION OF REMARKS OF HON. A. S. HERLONG, JR. OF FLORIDA

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Thursday, January 10, 1963

 

Mr. HERLONG. Mr. Speaker, Mrs. Patricia Nordman of De Land, Fla., is an ardent and articulate opponent of communism, and until recently published the De Land Courier, which she dedicated to the purpose of alerting the public to the dangers of communism in America.

At Mrs. Nordman's request, I include in the RECORD, under unanimous consent, the following "Current Communist Goals," which she identifies as an excerpt from "The Naked Communist," by Cleon Skousen:

[From "The Naked Communist," by Cleon Skousen]

CURRENT COMMUNIST GOALS

1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.

2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.

3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament [by] the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.

4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.

5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.

6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.

7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.

8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev's promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.

9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.

10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.

11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.)

12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.

13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.

14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.

15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.

16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.

17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks.

18. Gain control of all student newspapers.

19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.

20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.

21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.

22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms."

23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. "Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art."

24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press.

25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.

26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy."

27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a "religious crutch."

28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of "separation of church and state."

29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.

30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man."

31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the "big picture." Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.

32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture--education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.

33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.

34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.

35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.

36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.

37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.

38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand [or treat].

39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.

40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.

41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.

42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use ["]united force["] to solve economic, political or social problems.

43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.

44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.

45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction [over domestic problems. Give the World Court jurisdiction] over nations and individuals alike

[alicewonders]

Sounds like they have been pretty darn successful Bigun!  Thanks for posting that.