The article on transgender teenagers looked for an opposing view. Unfortunately, the reporter chose Dr. Paul McHugh, who is notorious for campaigning against transgender identity at any age.
Dr. McHugh was responsible for shutting down the gender identity clinic at Johns Hopkins in 1979, and has consistently spoken out pathologizing transgender identity as a mental disorder.
Surely the reporter ought to have thought twice about a source that consistently referred to Caitlin Jenner as "he"? Surely an article about teenage transgender people needed an opposing advocate who was concerned about the timing of surgery, rather than about the existence of transgender people? Perhaps the reporter could have found a critic who is younger than 84?
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Date: 2015-06-16 07:06 pm (UTC)Dr. McHugh was responsible for shutting down the gender identity clinic at Johns Hopkins in 1979, and has consistently spoken out pathologizing transgender identity as a mental disorder.
Surely the reporter ought to have thought twice about a source that consistently referred to Caitlin Jenner as "he"? Surely an article about teenage transgender people needed an opposing advocate who was concerned about the timing of surgery, rather than about the existence of transgender people? Perhaps the reporter could have found a critic who is younger than 84?