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In a culture where freedom has been redefined as a right to choose anything and liberty has degenerated into license, the newspeak of the age has declared the instrumental use of the body of another to be sexual freedom. ..

Removal of genitals and attachment of artificially constructed ones which are absolutely incapable of ovulation or conception, does not change the structure of reality. The removal constitutes mutilation and the construction of artificial organs with no reproductive function does not alter the gender or sex of the person. Medical science confirms that our identity as male or female affects even our brains. In addition, even the physical appearance must be sustained by massive doses of synthetic hormones.

Pope Emeritus Benedict was absolutely correct when he said, - the profound falsehood of this theory and of the anthropological revolution contained within it is obvious. - Gender is a gift. It is also a given...

In an article in the Wall Street Journal published on June 12, 2014, Dr. Paul R. McHugh, wrote about a medical fact, sex change or what is now routinely called "sexual reassignment surgery" is what he called "biologically impossible". He also referred to what is routinely called "transgenderism" as a mental disorder.

Dr McHugh is a distinguished service professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins and served as their chief psychiatrist for almost three decades. He further opined that those who promote sex change operations are not helping but hurting people with this disorder...

One of the few members of the secular Press with the courage to report on this now politically incorrect topic was Michael W. Chapman. In an article in CNS News entitled Johns Hopkins Psychiatrist: Transgender is 'Mental Disorder;' Sex Change 'Biologically Impossible' Chapman wrote:

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"Dr. McHugh, the author of six books and at least 125 peer-reviewed medical articles, made his remarks in a recent commentary in the Wall Street Journal, where he explained that transgender surgery is not the solution for people who suffer a "disorder of 'assumption'" - the notion that their maleness or femaleness is different than what nature assigned to them biologically.

"He also reported on a new study showing that the suicide rate among transgendered people who had reassignment surgery is 20 times higher than the suicide rate among non-transgender people. Dr. McHugh further noted studies from Vanderbilt University and London's Portman Clinic of children who had expressed transgender feelings but for whom, over time, 70%-80% "spontaneously lost those feelings."

"While the Obama administration, Hollywood, and major media such as Time magazine promote transgenderism as normal, said Dr. McHugh, these "policy makers and the media are doing no favors either to the public or the transgendered 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 transgendered 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 transgendered person's disorder, said Dr. McHugh, is in the person's "assumption" that they are different than the physical reality of their body, their maleness or femaleness, as assigned by nature. It is a disorder similar to a "dangerously thin" person suffering anorexia who looks in the mirror and thinks they are "overweight," said McHugh.

This assumption, that one's gender is only in the mind regardless of anatomical reality, has led some transgendered people to push for social acceptance and affirmation of their own subjective "personal truth," said Dr. McHugh. As a result, some states - California, New Jersey, and Massachusetts - have passed laws barring psychiatrists, "even with parental permission, from striving to restore natural gender feelings to a transgender minor," he said.

The pro-transgender advocates do not want to know, said McHugh, that studies show between 70% and 80% of children who express transgender feelings "spontaneously lose those feelings" over time. Also, for those who had sexual reassignment surgery, most said they were "satisfied" with the operation "but their subsequent psycho-social adjustments were no better than those who didn't have the surgery."

The former Johns Hopkins chief of psychiatry also warned against enabling or encouraging certain subgroups of the transgendered, such as young people "susceptible to suggestion from 'everything is normal' sex education," and the schools' "diversity counselors" who, like "cult leaders," may "encourage these young people to distance themselves from their families and offer advice on rebutting arguments against having transgender surgery."

Dr. McHugh also reported that there are "misguided doctors" who, working with very young children who seem to imitate the opposite sex, will administer "puberty-delaying hormones to render later sex-change surgeries less onerous - even though the drugs stunt the children's growth and risk causing sterility."

Such action comes "close to child abuse," said Dr. McHugh, given that close to 80% of those kids will "abandon their confusion and grow naturally into adult life if untreated. 'Sex change' is biologically impossible," said McHugh. "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."

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The words of creation recorded in the Book of Genesis, "God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them." (Gen 1:27) are being rejected and the consequences are evident in a culture which is spinning out of control.

The proponents of a feigned ability to change the nature of reality claim that changing gender is now another one of those multiplying new-found rights in a society which has nearly lost its mind. Following the pattern of their cultural revolutionary agenda, they have used verbal engineering to prepare the way for social and legal engineering, all intended to foist their ideology on us all.

...The Gender Identity Movement insists upon the recognition in the positive law of a such a so called new-found right to somehow choose one's gender. This is a biological, psychological and ontological impossibility. Yet, the advocates of this movement insist upon laws which accommodate, fund, and enforce this right. Those involved in the activist wing of the movement want to compel the rest of society to recognize their vision of a brave new world or face the Police Power of the State.

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McHugh supports his view – which goes against the views of the American Psychological Association and medical consensus – with a longterm study by researchers at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden. The majority of research on patients before and after SRS shows improved quality of life and psychological health right after surgery, but long-term evidence is more dubious.

The Karolinska Institute’s study followed a sample of 324 transsexual patients in Sweden, including male-to-females and female-to-males, after undergoing surgery between 1973 and 2003. The researchers found a higher suicide rate in transsexual individuals ten or more years after surgery than in the general Swedish population.

These results are troubling, and they warrant an explanation with follow-up research. Several questions remain unanswered. Would the suicide rate have been even higher in this group had they not undergone surgery? The study did not evaluate the mental health of patients pre-surgery or compare them with patients who did not opt for surgery. Unforeseen circumstances – such as subsequent divorce and the stigmatization of transgender people in society – are risk factors for suicide that were not controlled for in this study.

The Karolinska Institute researchers do not draw definitive conclusions from the results, but state, “Our findings suggest that SRS, although alleviating gender dysphoria, may not suffice as treatment for transsexualism, and should inspire improved psychiatric and somatic care after SRS for this patient group.” McHugh goes in a different direction, rejecting both sex reassignment and gender dysphoria, which he confusedly compares to body dysmorphic disorder in claiming that it “does not correspond with physical reality.”

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There is no conclusive evidence that sex change operations improve the lives of transsexuals, with many people remaining severely distressed and even suicidal after the operation, according to a medical review conducted exclusively for Guardian Weekend tomorrow.

The review of more than 100 international medical studies of post-operative transsexuals by the University of Birmingham's aggressive research intelligence facility (Arif) found no robust scientific evidence that gender reassignment surgery is clinically effective.

The Guardian asked Arif to conduct the review after speaking to several people who regret changing gender or believe that the medical care they received failed to prepare them for their new lives. They explain why they are unhappy with their sex change and how they cope with the consequences in the Weekend magazine tomorrow (July 31).

Chris Hyde, the director of Arif, said: "There is a huge uncertainty over whether changing someone's sex is a good or a bad thing. While no doubt great care is taken to ensure that appropriate patients undergo gender reassignment, there's still a large number of people who have the surgery but remain traumatised - often to the point of committing suicide."...

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ORIGINAL: verbatimguy
I dont understand this transgendery thing.

Boy is boy which is xy.
Girl is girl which is yy.
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Sereously what is the problem here?

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https://www.geneticliteracyproject.org/2014/10/01/whats-life-like-for-the-transgendered-after-sexual-reassignment-surgery/

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ORIGINAL: Staleek

Watch this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kk0-fcSx0wM

Now do you understand?

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ORIGINAL: FieryOpal

I don't understand 20% of what you write.

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ORIGINAL: verbatimguy
I dont understand this transgendery thing.

Boy is boy which is xy.
Girl is girl which is yy.
<snip>
Sereously what is the problem here?

Females are XX, not 'yy.' (The male-determining "Y" chromosome is actually a truncated "X" where one leg is missing DNA material which only females inherit.)

Another typo to accompany the plethora of your numerous other misspellings? Approximately half of which should either automatically get auto-corrected while composing posts or else get flagged with a squiggly red line for you to manually correct.

This would appear to be the real mystery.

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ORIGINAL: dcnovice

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https://www.geneticliteracyproject.org/2014/10/01/whats-life-like-for-the-transgendered-after-sexual-reassignment-surgery/

The final sentence from bounty's own link bears posting:

As a doctor, McHugh does no favors by refusing to relinquish an unscientific and outdated outlook on gender.

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ORIGINAL: dcnovice

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https://www.geneticliteracyproject.org/2014/10/01/whats-life-like-for-the-transgendered-after-sexual-reassignment-surgery/

The final sentence from bounty's own link bears posting:

As a doctor, McHugh does no favors by refusing to relinquish an unscientific and outdated outlook on gender.

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ORIGINAL: dcnovice

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ORIGINAL: Lucylastic

I may be using an old term here but apart from this term do any of you ignorati who think its either male or female ONLY, did younever hear of hermaphrodites?
There are several gender and genetic states.
With the disparites in sexual organs not to mentiion hormonal diseases, there degrees and nothing in it is male OR female only.

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ORIGINAL: Lucylastic

A small slice of genetics and gender
http://www.who.int/genomics/gender/en/index1.html