Transphobic doctor says transgender is a mental illness

TL;dr

- Transphobic Dr. with 125 peer reviewed medical articles says sex is biological and you cant change it
-Not feeling like your birth gender is mental disorder
-suicide rate for tans people 20x higher than average
-70%-80% of kids with trans feelings change their minds
-people who get sex change no better than before, still unstable
-says giving kids sex changes and hormones is child abuse
-sex change biologically impossible

Some further reading

"Chromosomes determine more than just sex, there is clearly an intrinsic difference in male and female cells even before the sex hormones are brought into play."

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/24/sc...some.html?_r=0

Not surprising. A physicist would have been better than a doctor.

Do you mean physician?

Erm... how exactly?

Well, he's technically right. Gender Identity Disorder is in our psychiatric diagnostic manual.

edit - whether it should be or not is not the point I'm making, before someone misquotes me

A physicist?

Without doctors there would be no one able to transition at all, there are many who are understanding and supportive

I actually kinda agree with him. Not trying to be mean or anything but it sounds more logical than someone claiming ''it's living in the wrong body''. It makes more sense to threat it like a disorder than changing sex and having to take hormones and medication to through the rest of your life.

Is it? I thought that was removed from the newer editions?

And idk he's not actually right. It is biologically possible to change sex. Maybe not for humans but in the animal kingdom it's not impossible.

Gender and sex are two different things.

I believe it's still in there.

The author does address sex ambiguity in other species in the original article. The OP is very clearly biased and is interpreting the original article to fit their agenda.

edit - now that I read this guy's tl;dr points after reading the NYT article, they are such reaches

A lot of doctors have this belief.

Umm do you even know what you're talking about? It's Physician And physician is another word for doctor

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You're right about the last two but don't even bring mental illness into this. I hate when people use ignorance to combat ignorance. Your ableist notions on mental illness are offensive to people who have typically irreversible, life-long struggles. No one should be shamed for being mentally ill. UGH smh...

Hes right tho. Its classified as one im pretty sure. Should that make it wrong to be transgender? No, its just psychologically they arent the gender they were born with. Hehe ok