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As of this date, 07-06-19, this folder contains 2 items. ******* item 1 TRANSGENDERISM IS A MENTAL DISORDER �******* item 2 BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OPENS "TRANSGENDER" CHILDREN'S CLINIC ******************************************************************************************************************** ******* item 1 TRANSGENDERISM IS A MENTAL DISORDER ******* From: "PFOX" ******* Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 ******* Surgical Sex by Dr. Paul McHugh ******* Paul McHugh is University Distinguished Service Professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University. ******* Copyright (c) 2004 First Things 147 (November 2004): 34-38. ******* When the practice of sex-change surgery first emerged back in the early 1970s, I would often remind its advocating psychiatrists that with other patients, alcoholics in particular, they would quote the Serenity Prayer, �God, give me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.� Where did they get the idea that our sexual identity (�gender� was the term they preferred) as men or women was in the category of things that could be changed? ******* Their regular response was to show me their patients. Men (and until recently they were all men) with whom I spoke before their surgery would tell me that their bodies and sexual identities were at variance. Those I met after surgery would tell me that the surgery and hormone treatments that had made them �women� had also made them happy and contented. None of these encounters were persuasive, however. The post-surgical subjects struck me as caricatures of women. They wore high heels, copious makeup, and flamboyant clothing; they spoke about how they found themselves able to give vent to their natural inclinations for peace, domesticity, and gentleness�but their large hands, prominent Adam�s apples, and thick facial features were incongruous (and would become more so as they aged). Women psychiatrists whom I sent to talk with them would intuitively see through the disguise and the exaggerated postures. �Gals know gals,� one said to me, �and that�s a guy.� ******* The subjects before the surgery struck me as even more strange, as they struggled to convince anyone who might influence the decision for their surgery. First, they spent an unusual amount of time thinking and talking about sex and their sexual experiences; their sexual hungers and adventures seemed to preoccupy them. Second, discussion of babies or children provoked little interest from them; indeed, they seemed indifferent to children. But third, and most remarkable, many of these men-who-claimed-to-be-women reported that they found women sexually attractive and that they saw themselves as �lesbians.� When I noted to their champions that their psychological leanings seemed more like those of men than of women, I would get various replies, mostly to the effect that in making such judgments I was drawing on sexual stereotypes. ******* Until 1975, when I became psychiatrist-in-chief at Johns Hopkins Hospital, I could usually keep my own counsel on these matters. But once I was given authority over all the practices in the psychiatry department I realized that if I were passive I would be tacitly co-opted in encouraging sex-change surgery in the very department that had originally proposed and still defended it. I decided to challenge what I considered to be a misdirection of psychiatry and to demand more information both before and after their operations. ******* Two issues presented themselves as targets for study. First, I wanted to test the claim that men who had undergone sex-change surgery found resolution for their many general psychological problems. Second (and this was more ambitious), I wanted to see whether male infants with ambiguous genitalia who were being surgically transformed into females and raised as girls did, as the theory (again from Hopkins) claimed, settle easily into the sexual identity that was chosen for them. These claims had generated the opinion in psychiatric circles that one�s �sex� and one�s �gender� were distinct matters, sex being genetically and hormonally determined from conception, while gender was culturally shaped by the actions of family and others during childhood. ******* The first issue was easier and required only that I encourage the ongoing research of a member of the faculty who was an accomplished student of human sexual behavior. The psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Jon Meyer was already developing a means of following up with adults who received sex-change operations at Hopkins in order to see how much the surgery had helped them. He found that most of the patients he tracked down some years after their surgery were contented with what they had done and that only a few regretted it. But in every other respect, they were little changed in their psychological condition. They had much the same problems with relationships, work, and emotions as before. The hope that they would emerge now from their emotional difficulties to flourish psychologically had not been fulfilled. ******* We saw the results as demonstrating that just as these men enjoyed cross-dressing as women before the operation so they enjoyed cross-living after it. But they were no better in their psychological integration or any easier to live with. With these facts in hand I concluded that Hopkins was fundamentally cooperating with a mental illness. We psychiatrists, I thought, would do better to concentrate on trying to fix their minds and not their genitalia. ******* Thanks to this research, Dr. Meyer was able to make some sense of the mental disorders that were driving this request for unusual and radical treatment. Most of the cases fell into one of two quite different groups. One group consisted of conflicted and guilt-ridden homosexual men who saw a sex-change as a way to resolve their conflicts over homosexuality by allowing them to behave sexually as females with men. The other group, mostly older men, consisted of heterosexual (and some bisexual) males who found intense sexual arousal in cross-dressing as females. As they had grown older, they had become eager to add more verisimilitude to their costumes and either sought or had suggested to them a surgical transformation that would include breast implants, penile amputation, and pelvic reconstruction to resemble a woman. ******* Further study of similar subjects in the psychiatric services of the Clark Institute in Toronto identified these men by the auto-arousal they experienced in imitating sexually seductive females. Many of them imagined that their displays might be sexually arousing to onlookers, especially to females. This idea, a form of �sex in the head� (D. H. Lawrence), was what provoked their first adventure in dressing up in women�s undergarments and had eventually led them toward the surgical option. Because most of them found women to be the objects of their interest they identified themselves to the psychiatrists as lesbians. The name eventually coined in Toronto to describe this form of sexual misdirection was �autogynephilia.� Once again I concluded that to provide a surgical alteration to the body of these unfortunate people was to collaborate with a mental disorder rather than to treat it. ******* Read the rest of this article at: http://www.pfox.org/asp/newsman/templates/newstemplate.asp?articleid=216&zoneid=6 ******* To subscribe to this list of ex-gay news and views, send a blank email to: [email protected] *********************************************************************************************************�******* item 2 BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OPENS "TRANSGENDER" CHILDREN'S CLINIC from "Bill Whatcott" Mon, 21 May 2007 ******* Dear Friends: I remember when the Canadian Human Rights Commission forced Canadian tax payers to pay for federal inmates who wanted "sex change" operations. Corrections Canada was not exactly raising moral objections around 2002 to the pseudo medicine. In fact they were quite pro-homosexual 5 years ago. The concerns Corrections Canada expressed is they allowed the procedure on a few inmates already and stopped doing it as a few of the guys decided once they were mutilated for life they did not want to be women any more and were quite distraught as they couldn't undo what they allowed to happen to them. One inmate who was sent to a woman's prison once he started his hormone therapy and was described as being "advanced" in his journey to becoming a woman, but still didn't lose his penis yet, started having sex with female inmates upon arrival. This nuttiness hasn't stopped the homosexual agenda's corruption of medicine in this country. ******* I'm not sure what will happen to these children once they are ruined. This story is worse than Canada's as these are children. I can think of no other time in history when such an act of child abuse would be allowed to take place in a hospital. Truly this is a sign America is not great. Even Iraqis would have more sense than to do this to their children..... ******* Sincerely, Bill Whatcott ******* �But whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were thrown into the sea." - Mark 9:42 ******* BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OPENS "TRANSGENDER" CHILDREN'S CLINIC ******* Will reportedly offer the treatments to children as young as seven-years old ******* Gudrun Schultz; May 19, 2007 - Life Site News ******* BOSTON, Massachusetts - A new clinic at Children�s Hospital Boston is offering hormone treatment to young children identified as �transgender� to facilitate eventual surgery for a gender switch, according to a report by MassResistance May 17. ******* Led by endocrinologist Dr. Norman Spack, the Gender-Management Service Clinic is the first U.S. clinic to initiate medical intervention for healthy children on the basis of a �transgender� identification. A 12-year-old German boy who began receiving puberty-blocking hormone treatments last winter in preparation for sex-change �transition� surgery was believed to be the youngest child to receive the treatment at the time. ******* The Boston clinic will reportedly offer the treatments to children as young as seven-years old, according to researcher Ari Taube for MassResistance. ******* Hormone treatment of pre-pubescent children is intended to prevent normal development of gender characterization in order to ease eventual surgical procedures to complete a change of gender, which can take place once the child is about 16. ******* On a MassResistance radio report, Taube emphasized that transgender procedures can only achieve the outward appearance of the opposite gender. ******* �It�s important to point out that simply because one undergoes mutilating surgery and decides to administer to themselves the hormone of the opposite gender, doesn�t actually make you that gender. It is surgery but it doesn�t actually turn a girl into a boy. The chromosomal differences remain.� ******* Dr. Spack has acknowledged in the past that only about 20 percent of children who express gender confusion continue to express that confusion throughout adulthood, Taube pointed out. ******* �You�re giving authority to a seven-, eight-, or nine-year old to determine what gender they want to display.� ******* The treatments are an experimental procedure using hormones that can cause an alarming list of adverse effects, including spasms and bloody mucus from the nose, Taube stated. Estrogen treatments increase the risk for later development of breast cancer, and taking hormones of the opposite sex render transgender teens infertile. As well as suppressing normal sexual development, the hormones act to retard male growth process to ensure a more �female� body type. ******* �It�s ghastly, it�s really scary,� Taube said. ******* Dr. Spack�s interest in transgender issues has included association with bondage and sadomasochistic groups�he presented a workshop at the Transcending Boundaries conference in Worcester last November, organized by PFLAG and co-sponsored by the New England Leather Alliance. ******* See the MassResistance Radio report: http://www.massresistance.org/media/audio/tran_doc_051007.m3u ******* Read Children�s Hospital Boston statement on Gender Management Clinic: http://www.childrenshospital.org/views/april07/new_clinic_addresses_intersex_and_gender_issues.html ******* To contact Children�s Hospital Boston: 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115 USA ******* Phone: 617-355-6000, 617-355-0443 (TTY) ********************************************************************************************************* ************************************************************************************************************************

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