2004/11/Surgical Sex
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- when: 2004/11
- author: Paul McHugh
- source: Institute on Religion and Public Life
- topics: sex reassignment surgery/misrepresentation transgenderness/myths transmisia
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- link: https://www.firstthings.com/article/2004/11/surgical-sex
- title: Why We Stopped Doing Sex Change Operations
- summary: “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.”
Paul McHugh explains, using antiepistemic arguments, why he decided to stop offering sex reassignment surgery at Johns Hopkins University.