[Lenneth]

Dr McHugh chooses to substitute his prejudices for science. His argument is pure reductionism. It's entirely possible that many TS had bad outcomes...thirty years ago and even today, but that is not proof that TS is a disorder. One would expect that people who have struggled with their gender identity for a lifetime would have higher rates of depression and suicide throughout their life. Sex change operations may resolve the immediate dismorphic state, but the psychic wounds may never fully heel.

One might reasonably want to compare the outcomes for people who , lived a lifetime of GID with those growing up today in households that embrace and support their transgendered child.

And throwing in Chelsea Manning ...a cheap attempt to discredit by association.

Dr. McHugh can cling to his outmoded ideas, and he can claim authority, but the truth is that the rest of the world is moving on, leaving his flat earth view behind.

A most apt likeness, comparing McHugh to a "Flat Earther" Clinging to a old "popular belief" in-spite of a mountain of hard proof to the contrary.
(A Classic childish "I'm sticking my fingers in my ears and wearing a blindfold so I cant see or hear anything different than my own ideas" [whilst sticking their tongue out] mentality).

Sadly I have many Relatives who are similar....

I often wonder (likely in futility) when people like that will learn that what you could call "new understandings" of such things are not just pulled out of someone's backside...?

(Sorry if this seemed like a Rant but i'm having that kind of a day)