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    How Gay Activists Will Respond to a Major Scientific Report That Refutes Their Talking Points

    By MICHAEL BROWN

    The internet has been abuzz with headlines declaring, "Almost Everything the Media Tell You About Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Is Wrong," and "Johns Hopkins Shrinks Warn Against Kids Going Transgender."

    As reported by Ryan T. Anderson on Monday, "A major new report, published today in the journal The New Atlantis, challenges the leading narratives that the media has pushed regarding sexual orientation and gender identity."

    How significant was this report?

    "Co-authored by two of the nation's leading scholars on mental health and sexuality, the 143-page report discusses over 200 peer-reviewed studies in the biological, psychological, and social sciences, painstakingly documenting what scientific research shows and does not show about sexuality and gender."

    What were the conclusions of this study? "The major takeaway, as the editor of the journal explains, is that 'some of the most frequently heard claims about sexuality and gender are not supported by scientific evidence.'"

    How will gay activists respond? They will shoot the messengers. Watch and see. We've seen the pattern for years.

    Gay activists and their allies will try to discredit an individual or a group, then when that individual or group challenges their position, they reply, "No one listens to him/her/them. They've been totally discredited!"

    The SPLC has often been complicit in this, branding a conservative Christian organization as a hate group or classifying a conservative spokesman as a new leader of the radical right, therefore, whatever they say can be safely dismissed. After all, they're haters and bigots!

    When it comes to the authors of this important new study, they are hardly rightwing, fundamentalist, conservatives. Hardly!

    One of the authors, Dr. Lawrence S. Mayer, "is a scholar in residence in the Department of Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and a professor of statistics and biostatistics at Arizona State University."

    He has taught at 8 universities (including Princeton and Stanford) and, "His full-time and part-time appointments have been in twenty-three disciplines, including statistics, biostatistics, epidemiology, public health, social methodology, psychiatry, mathematics, sociology, political science, economics and biomedical informatics."

    The other author is even more acclaimed. Dr. Paul McHugh is "University Distinguished Service Professor of Psychiatry and a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He was for twenty-five years the psychiatrist-in-chief at the Johns Hopkins Hospital."

    Dr. McHugh "was elected a member of the National Academy of Medicine (formerly the Institute of Medicine) in 1992. From 2002 to 2009, he was a member of the President's Council on Bioethics," among his many accomplishments.

    These certainly sound like formidable scholars, and so their 143-page report, which, as stated, "discusses over 200 peer-reviewed studies," should be taken very seriously when it challenges many of the major talking points put forward by gay activists arguing: gays are not born that way and can possibly change; "non-heterosexuals are about two to three times as likely to have experienced childhood sexual abuse"; when compared to the general population, "non-heterosexual subpopulations are at an elevated risk for a variety of adverse health and mental health outcomes"; and the idea that "a person might be 'a man trapped in a woman's body' or 'a woman trapped in a man's body' — is not supported by scientific evidence."

    Note carefully those closing words, which are a theme of the entire study: These foundational LGBT talking points are "not supported by scientific evidence."

    I can assure you, though, that rather than interacting with the scientific evidence presented in this formidable study, the vast majority of LGBT activists and their allies will dismiss it out of hand.

    They will say, Dr. McHugh is an infamous transphobe who is totally out of touch with modern science while Dr. Mayer is unqualified to write on this topic.

    As I said before, watch and see.

    When it comes to Dr. McHugh, he committed the cardinal sin of opposing sex-change surgery during his tenure at Johns Hopkins Hospital, which is why that surgical procedure was dropped under his leadership. But he did this based on years of interaction with those who identified as transgender, interviewing them before and after surgery, ultimately concluding that, "We psychiatrists ... would do better to concentrate on trying to fix their minds and not their genitalia."

    I reached out to him in November before I appeared on the Tyra Banks show to discuss transgender children, wanting to know if his views had changed based on more current research. He replied to me on November 18, 2009: "I hold that interfering medically or surgically with the natural development of young people claiming to be 'transgendered' is a form of child abuse."

    Not surprisingly, there are few psychiatrists hated more by LGBT leaders than Paul McHugh.

    Just within the last few years, the TransAdvocate.com website accused him of "clinging to a dangerous past"; the Huffington Post claimed that he "endangers the lives of transgender youth"; the Advocate.com website referred to the "scary science at John Hopkins University"; and a ThinkProgress.org headline declared, "Meet The Doctor Social Conservatives Depend On To Justify Anti-Transgender Hate."

    So, when it comes to Dr. McHugh, the script has already been written, and no matter what the scientific evidence states and no matter how carefully he has presented it, he will be viciously attacked and his research will be flatly rejected.

    As for Dr. Mayer, again, my expectation is that he will be dismissed as unqualified, while his guilt by association with Dr. McHugh and Johns Hopkins will be used against him as well.

    The good news is that, over time, truth will triumph, which is why Principle #6 in my book Outlasting the Gay Revolution was "Keep Propagating the Truth Until the Lies Are Dispelled."

    Those who want to know the truth owe it to themselves to study this new report carefully, determined to follow the truth wherever it leads. Those choosing to shoot the messengers will only hurt themselves in the end.

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    Someone posted this article on Facebook as well. It was the first time I read it or even heard about it. It's quite interesting and makes a lot of sense.

    Prominent doctor labels transgender a mental disorder, says surgery isn't the answer


    By Mark Ellis

    Dr. Paul McHugh, the former psychiatrist-in-chief at Johns Hopkins Hospital, says transgender is a mental disorder rather than a civil rights issue, and decried attempts for surgical solutions – especially those paid for by taxpayers.

    Transgender individuals believe their gender identity differs from their biological, God-given sex.


    Recently, those advancing the transgender cause seem to be scoring victories. On May 30, a government review board ruled that Medicare can pay for "reassignment" or sex-change surgeries. And Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said he is "open" to lifting a ban on transgender individuals serving in the military.

    "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," writes Dr. McHugh in the Wall Street Journal.

    McHugh was the Henry Phipps Professor of Psychiatry and the director of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at the Johns Hopkins University. His own research focused on the neuroscientific foundations of motivated behaviors, psychiatric genetics, epidemiology, and neuropsychiatry.

    He says transgender is a mental disorder for two reasons. First, the idea of sex misalignment is mistaken because it doesn't correspond with physical reality. Second, transgender can lead to harmful psychological outcomes, including an alarming rate of suicide following surgeries.

    The transgendered harbor false assumptions similar to other disorders familiar to psychiatrists, according to Dr. McHugh. He compares this to anorexia and bulimia nervosa, where the sufferer may believe he or she is overweight when they are actually dangerously thin.

    Chastity Bono (left), the only child of Sonny and Cher, underwent surgery to become Chaz Bono
    Chastity Bono (left), the only child of Sonny and Cher, underwent surgery to become Chaz Bono

    Dr. McHugh cites a 2011 study at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden. The long-term study—up to 30 years—followed 324 people who had sex-reassignment surgery. The study revealed that beginning about 10 years after the surgery, the transgendered began to experience increasing mental difficulties.

    "Most shockingly, their suicide mortality rose almost 20-fold above the comparable non-transgender population," Dr. McHugh notes. "This disturbing result has as yet no explanation but probably reflects the growing sense of isolation reported by the aging transgendered after surgery. The high suicide rate certainly challenges the surgery prescription."

    Johns Hopkins University pioneered "sex-reassignment surgery" in the 1960s. But when they launched a study in the 1970s comparing the outcomes of transgendered people who had the surgery with those who did not, they were surprised.

    The "subsequent psycho-social adjustments were no better than those who didn't have the surgery," Dr. McHugh notes. Hopkins stopped doing the surgeries in 1979, "since producing a 'satisfied' but still troubled patient seemed an inadequate reason for surgically amputating normal organs."

    "'Sex change' is biologically impossible," Dr. McHugh notes. "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 a civil-rights matter and encouraging surgical intervention is in reality to collaborate with and promote a mental disorder."
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    I did some calculations on the suicide rate mentioned to see if it was statistically significant since I suspected that it wasn't. I found that if the 324 people had been followed by the study for an average of 20 years then the suicide rate in Sweden (which is not that different to the rest of the world) suggests that 1 out of the 324 should have committed suicide and the article suggests that 20 did, which is in fact statistically significant.

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