Paul McHugh/gender

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McHugh has been a reliable source of authoritative-sounding but highly misleading and flawed work in the area of gender identity.

Writings

2016

Each of these is a page with more information about the item, including criticism:

• 2016/10/Sexuality and Gender: Findings from the Biological, Psychological, and Social Sciences
• 2016/05/13/Transgender Surgery Isn't the Solution (WSJ)
• 2016/03/Gender Ideology Harms Children

2015

• 2015-06-10 Transgenderism: A Pathogenic Meme: describes transgender people as "counterfeits or impersonators of the sex with which they “identify.”"

2004

• 2004-11 Surgical Sex: Why We Stopped Doing Sex Change Operations: misrepresents transgender people and gender identity; describes transwomen as "caricatures"

Criticism

• 2016-11-01 Paul McHugh and the Johns Hopkins gender clinic: The perils of cherry-picking (More Trans, module 2-1)
  • The Johns Hopkins link is now 404, but has been archived. It confirms that JH has reconsidered their earlier decision and will once again be offering SRS.
• 2015-09-01 Paul McHugh is wrong: transitioning is effective (Gender Analysis 10): detailed analysis of McHugh's work and the methodology used specifically in the 1979 study to which he frequently refers