2016/05/13/Transgender Surgery Isn't the Solution
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- when: 2016/05/13
- author: Paul McHugh
- source: Wall Street Journal
- topics: gender identity/myths sex reassignment surgery/misrepresentation fearmongery/transgender false civility
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- link: https://www.wsj.com/articles/paul-mchugh-transgender-surgery-isnt-the-solution-1402615120
- title: Transgender Surgery Isn't the Solution
- summary: “...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.”
Original article is paywalled, but is reprinted without commentary in:
- "The Northampton Seminar" on Patheos
- The Intelligent Conservative
- at Oratory Friends along with another anti-trans article
Criticism:
- 2014-06-16 The Wall Street Journal's Ignorance on LGBTQ Issues Is Alarming
- 2014-06-13 Topic: Transgender Surgery Isn't the Solution (forum discussion at a trans support site)
Approval:
- 2014-10-21 ex-head of psychiatry at JHU says gender reassignment surgery is madness "Well aside from the god crap he's right."
- 2014-08-24 Transgender Surgery Isn't the Solution - A drastic physical change doesn't address underlying psycho-social troubles. (forum post at the Baltimore Sun)