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Every day I search the headlines look for something to write about, today’s headlines…

• The Plight of Undocumented Transgender Women During a Health Crisis

Vice is shining a spotlight on the issues facing undocumented transgender Latinx women during the COVID-19 epidemic in the United States. In tonight's ...
Advocate.com
Yesterday

• Betsy DeVos Tells Connecticut: Ban Transgender Athletes, Or Say Goodbye To Your Federal Funding

Allowing transgender girls to compete in school sports with girls who are not transgender is a violation of federal law, and if it's not stopped in 20 days, ...
Forbes
2 days ago

• Transgender man fatally shot by officer after pointing gun, Tallahassee police say

The man fatally stabbed his next-door neighbor, then was shot after aiming a gun at an officer, according to Tallahassee police.
Tampa Bay Times
2 days ago

• Lifting Barriers to Care for Transgender and Non-Binary Patients

Providing gender-affirming care to the transgender and non-binary community is essential. During the COVID-19 pandemic, barriers have been lifted to continue ...
Michigan Medicine
5 days ago

• A Transgender Woman's Attorneys Fear She Won't Survive Her 60-Month Sentence

New York attorneys have launched a campaign to release transgender, gender nonconforming and nonbinary prisoners during the pandemic.
The Appeal
4 days ago

• Interrogating the transgender agenda » MercatorNet

Dr Paul McHugh is one of America's leading psychiatrists. The article below is his testimony to the US Supreme Court in the case of R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral ...
MercatorNet
7 hours ago

This one looks promising.

Dr Paul McHugh is one of America's leading psychiatrists????

Oh really, who says so?

Interrogating the transgender agenda
A psychiatrist questions the scientific and medical basis for current treatments of gender dyphoria.
MercatorNet
By Paul McHugh
Jun 1, 2020

Oh it is just the article that says that he is “one of America's leading psychiatrists”

Then he writes this about the Aimee Stephen case that was heard by the Supreme Court last year and the ruling will be this month on the Title VII case…

Sex refers to the two halves of humanity, male and female. It is well defined based on the binary roles that males and females play in reproduction. “In biology, an organism is male or female if it is structured to perform one of the respective roles in reproduction. This definition does not require any arbitrary measurable or quantifiable physical characteristics or behaviors, it requires understanding the reproductive system and the reproduction process.”

The structural difference for the purpose of reproduction is the only “widely accepted” way of classifying the two sexes. “This conceptual basis for sex roles is binary and stable, and allows us to distinguish males from females on the grounds of their reproductive systems, even when these individuals exhibit behaviors that are not typical of males or females.”

Sex is not and cannot be “assigned at birth,” despite the assertions of the American Medical Association (AMA), the American Psychiatric Association (APA), and Respondents. The language of “assigned at birth” is purposefully misleading and would be identical to an assertion that blood type is assigned at birth. Yes, a doctor can check your blood type and list it. But blood type, like sex, is objectively recognizable, not assigned. In fact, the sex of a child can be ascertained well before birth.

Now get this “one of America's leading psychiatrists” says that the 217,490 members of the AMA and the 38,800 members of the APA are wrong and he is right!

For those of you who do not know who Paul McHugh is, let me enlighten you.

Long shadow cast by psychiatrist on transgender issues finally recedes at Johns Hopkins
Washington Post
By Amy Ellis Nutt
April 5, 2017

Nearly four decades after he derailed a pioneering transgender program at Johns Hopkins Hospital with his views on “guilt-ridden homosexual men,” psychiatrist Paul McHugh is seeing his institution come full circle with the resumption of gender-reassignment surgeries.

McHugh, the hospital’s chief of psychiatry from 1975 to 2001, still believes that being transgender is largely a psychological problem, not a biological phenomenon. And with the title of university distinguished service professor at Johns Hopkins Medicine, he continues to wield enormous influence in certain circles and is quoted frequently on gender issues in conservative media.

“I’m not against transgender people,” he said recently, stressing that he is “anxious they get the help they need.” But such help should be psychiatric rather than surgical, he maintains.

Yup, he is the person who shut down Dr. Harry Benjamin gender clinic of John Hopkins!

Once at the forefront of ­gender-identity science — and site of the nation’s first “change-of-sex operations,” as the headlines announced in 1966 — Hopkins abruptly halted those surgeries in 1979.

The main trigger was a study by Jon Meyer, who ran the hospital’s Sexual Behaviors Consultation Unit. In the study, Meyer concluded that although “sex-change” surgery was “subjectively satisfying” for the small sample surveyed, the operations they underwent conferred “no objective advantage in terms of social rehabilitation.”

“With these facts in hand,” McHugh later wrote, “I concluded that Hopkins was fundamentally cooperating with a mental illness.”

Two months later, its gender-identity clinic was shut down.

And then there is the American College of Pediatricians...

Anti-LGBT Hate Group Releases Anti-Trans Position Statement
SPLC
By Hatewatch Staff
April 07, 2016

Last month, the American College of Pediatricians (ACPeds) released a new position statement about “gender ideology” and how it “harms children.”
Specifically, the organization disputes that people can be transgender, adding that widespread acceptance of trans people amounts to child abuse. The statement also claims that transgender people are mentally ill.
[…]
One of the signatories of the ACPeds’ anti-trans statement is Paul McHugh, a retired University Distinguished Service Professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins Medical School. McHugh has held anti-trans views for years, disavowing healthcare options for trans people and pushing ideas like “autogynephilia” – the idea that trans women’s identities are predicated on sexual arousal with the idea of themselves as women.

According to McHugh, trans people should be treated as disordered, like people with anorexia nervosa.

And there is this from Wikipedia…

McHugh considers homosexuality to be an “erroneous desire” and supported California Proposition 8.

He co-authored a criticism of medical treatment for transgender youth published by the conservative advocacy group American College of Pediatricians.

So that is who Paul McHugh is, a staunchly transphobic and homophobic who believes that we are all a bunch of pedophiles.