Paul McHugh in First Things

[miriam]

This guy is against surgery with intersexed children. But... he also is saying that intersexed children should be raised in their genetic sex (xx = female, xy = male). With friends like McHugh, you don't need enemies.

http://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft0411/articles/mchugh.htm

Groeten, Miriam

[Dana Gold]

The Doctor, an "expert" in human sexuality keeps "good company" as illustrated by the excerpts and links below:

"has blasted McHugh for his association with Drs. John Money and Fred Berlin, co-founders of the Johns Hopkins Sexual Disorders Clinic, accusing all three of covering up sex crimes and coddling pedophiles" :eek:

http://www.ipce.info/library_3/files/guide_mang_men.htm

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The White House on Wednesday (Jan. 16) announced the names of 17 people, including scientists, ethicists and theologians, appointed by President Bush to serve on the President's Council on Bioethics. The council met for the first time on Thursday, beginning a two-day gathering in Washington.

..... Dr. Paul McHugh, psychiatrist-in-chief, Johns Hopkins Hospital. :eek:

http://www.belief.net/story/97/story_9790_1.html


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Bush's bioethics council called too conservative
By Kelly Jane Torrance

....While many in the pro-life community applauded, the main complaint against the council has been that it is far too conservative. A number of council members, including Kass, George, Meilaender, Mary Ann Glendon, and Paul McHugh, are associated with the conservative religious magazine First Things.

http://www.theinterim.com/2002/may/03bushsbioethics.html

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excerpt on "transsexuality"

Moral matters should have some salience
here. These include the waste of human resources; the confusions
imposed on society where these men/women insist on acceptance, even
in athletic competition, with women; the encouragement of the
"illusion of technique," which assumes that the body is like a suit
of clothes to be hemmed and stitched to style; and, finally, the
ghastliness of the mutilated anatomy.
But lay these strong moral objections aside and consider only
that this surgical practice has distracted effort from genuine
investigations attempting to find out just what has gone wrong for
these people--what has, by their testimony, given them years of
torment and psychological distress and prompted them to accept
these grim and disfiguring surgical procedures.
We need to know how to prevent such sadness, indeed horror.
We have to learn how to manage this condition as a mental disorder
when we fail to prevent it. :eek:

http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/mchugh.htm


Moral Psychiatry?........Compassionate Conservatism?

Dana
:sick:

[Sophie338]

Hi Miriam :wavey:

This guy is against surgery with intersexed children. But... he also is saying that intersexed children should be raised in their genetic sex (xx = female, xy = male). With friends like McHugh, you don't need enemies.

http://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft0411/articles/mchugh.htm

Groeten, Miriam

What gets to me is how people like Mc Hugh, who are quite frankly better off living in caves and have an undesrtanding of genetics that is akin to the cave lifestyle, Stone Age, seem to get all this prominence. If anything it proves a very simple point, the stupid, ill informed and arrogant, with thier utterly pointless and petty minded theorising, get heard, because they pander to prejudice and lies.

It is obvious that Mc hugh has no idea of the subject he is discussing, and even more glaringly obvious that your average janitor knows more about genetics than he does, so how on earth did he get where he is?

I suspect the fact that he has all his eminence and respect, while getting away with total quackery proves to me, that we have a very hard job to face educating people. the "no surgery" was just a sweetener with a sting in the tail.

If he is preaching XX = Girl, XY = Boy, no exceptions no negotiation, he obviously knows nothing and his ideas should be treated with the contempt they deserve.

shalom

Sophie.

[Meadow]

Miriam,

Thanks for bringing McHugh to our attention. I have read that particular article numerous times before, and basically dismissed the whole thing as one twisted pile of toxic waste that should be labeled as hazardous material. Not only does he freely mix persons who are intersex with others that have gender identity issues, but he picks and chooses his own facts, and several times contradicts himself from one paragraph to the next, if not within the same paragraph or sentence!! There is not enough space on this forum to catagorize all of his inconsistencies and total lack of scientific backing, and frankly, it would be a waste of precious time.

I dare say, however, I feel his position represents a small minority. Its interesting that persons like McHugh usually cite only similar persons as their points of reference, rather than larger published studies. As I allude to in another post, we might best help McHugh by guiding him to his rocking chair so that he might live out his life on a sunny porch somewhere far away, content within his own delirium and drool.

Reading that article only fired me up . . . again! And I haven't even fixed my morning cawfee yet!!

[Betsy]

Wasn't this thread longer at one point? Hmmm...maybe it was one of two or perhaps I am losing my mind.