@ScrimpshawTheSecond
Wow. Excellent article. An international scandal?
This quote is also interesting, from one of the psychiatrists who wrote the report:
'He predicted the excesses of gender affirming treatment — like the 1990s “enthusiasm” over repressed memory and multiple personality — would be reined in by the courts, not by the psychiatric profession.'
That's Paul McHugh, who was head of psychiatry at John Hopkins Hospital. The first hospital to pioneer gender surgery in 1966.
He eventually had it stopped in 1979 as he had concluded that gender dysphoria was a psychiatric condition, not a biological one, and patients were not satisfactorily served by a physical intervention.
He has been vilified by people in the transgender community ever since.
The hospital subsequently decided to resume the surgical program.
But he personally still believes it's a psychiatric issue, not a physical one.
Presumably, as more evidence emerges that surgery is not the best outcome, he will prevail.
In an interview from his home in Baltimore, where he still sees patients, McHugh explained that the “duty of all doctors who propose a treatment is to know the nature of the problem they propose to treat. The issue of transgender [people] is, the vast majority coming for surgery now don’t have a biological reason but a psychosocial reason.”
www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/long-shadow-cast-by-psychiatrist-on-transgender-issues-finally-recedes-at-johns-hopkins/2017/04/05/e851e56e-0d85-11e7-ab07-07d9f521f6b5_story.html