I think we can totally disregard Paul McHugh and his outdated,
ill-informed, offensive opinions about transgendered persons. He's
now nothing more than a sad, 92-year-old geriatric who's still
living in the days of 1950s black and white television news.
Seven years ago, faculty members at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg
School of Public Health disassociated themselves from McHugh
—condemning him for “mischaracterising” scientific evidence to
“further stigmatise and harm” transgender people—and have urged the
university to do the same.
A 2014 paper written by McHugh in which he argued that transgender
identities are “confusions” that should not be affirmed. His depiction of
transgender people as mentally ill and in need of “prevention”
treatments contradicted expert medical consensus agreed on by
national organisations, including the American Psychological
Association, the American Medical Association, and the American
Academy of Pediatrics.
McHugh had a long history of peddling anti-LGBTQI pseudoscience and
ignoring established evidence-based best practices for providing
physical and mental health care for those people.
McHugh's public offerings were a disgrace to the Johns Hopkins name,
which he used so liberally. His position statement is based on
distortions, omissions, half-truths, outdated research, and motivated
entirely by religious based bias against a group of people already
heavily stigmatised by society. The fact that every last one of his
points can be disproven by anyone with access to Google discredits the
academic standards of the institution.
Side note:
Unfortunately, I think a few of this forum's members would share
McHughes' bizarre, ill-advised opinions. Which is a worry in itself.