mme_hardy | Dear New York Times

If you are trying to find an expert on the cons of teenage gender transition, maybe you could find an expert who doesn't insist on referring to Caitlyn Jenner as "he" and "Bruce"?

Dr. Paul McHugh, a professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University Medical School and its hospital’s former psychiatrist in chief, is skeptical of the use of surgery for a psychological condition, and even more so for children. “Bruce Jenner — who cares?” said Dr. McHugh, who said he played a role in closing a transgender surgery program at Johns Hopkins about 35 years ago. “He’s a wonderfully successful person. He’s got all kinds of social networks. He’s got plenty of money. No one’s objecting to him if he wants to live as a woman. This is America, be my guest."

How kind of the good doctor to give permission.

e from transadvocate.com

McHugh himself admits to directing Meyer to conduct to further his anti-trans agenda in a 2004 article titled “Surgical Sex”. In the same article, McHugh also continues to preach the largely discredited “autogynephilia” theory of Ray Blanchard and J. Michael Bailey. McHugh is also known for filing an amicus curiae brief in Hollingsworth v. Perry, asserting that homosexuality is a choice, as well as for his participation of the campaign against Kansas abortion provider Dr George Tiller- who was murdered in 2009 by a anti-abortion activist.

I shall be writing my usual Strong Letter.

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Someone who hasn't updated their Rolodex in about thirty-forty years, that's who.

Yip. Remarkably lazy reporting. I do NOT understand why the copyeditor let referring to Caitlin Jenner as "he" go through, though; the Times has been using female pronouns and her female name in all other post-Vanity-Fair articles. That should have raised a bigotry flag right there.

Does the Times have copyeditors, or are they just running spelling checkers? Evidence points strongly to the latter lately.

I haven't read it, but is it possible it was written pre-Vanity-Fair and then someone didn't edit it sufficiently?

*actually reads it*

Ah. No. It's just the bigot saying it and the Times not changing his direct quotes. The writer uses she earlier in the article.

Dear Times: Get better experts, or at least label your bigots as bigots.

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