Renowned Johns Hopkins psychiatrist Paul McHugh said many in the medical and psychiatric industries “will come to regret” the ease with which they are now experimenting on children who claim to be transgender.

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“Many people are doing what amounts to an experiment on these young people without telling them it’s an experiment,” McHugh said in an interview with the College Fix. The psychiatrist said doctors who have gotten on board with the transgender trend and are treating young people with hormones “don’t have evidence that [the treatment] will be the right one.” “You need evidence for that and this is a very serious treatment,” he added. “It is comparable to doing frontal lobotomies.”

A recently released study published at the American Journal of Preventive Medicine found  78 percent of college students who claim to have gender identity issues meet the criteria for at least one mental health problem, such as depression, anxiety, eating disorders, self-injury, and suicidality, compared with 45 percent of students who are comfortable with their biological sex.

McHugh said he believes, for many of these young people, mental illness precedes their gender identity disturbances. “I think their mental problems, often depression, discouragement, are the things that need treatment,” he explained, adding:

I’m not positive about this. It’s a hypothesis, but it is a very plausible hypothesis, and it would explain why many of the people who go on to have treatment of their body discover they are just as depressed, discouraged and live just as problematic lives as they did before because they did not address the primary problem.

McHugh also told the Fix that children who receive experimental treatments after claiming to be transgender will likely have a life of involvement with the medical professions ahead of them. “They’re going to be in the hands of doctors for the rest of their lives, many of them are going to be sterilized not able to have their own children, and many will regret this,” he said. “Can you imagine having a life where you need to seek doctors all the time, for everything, just to live?” McHugh asked. “Getting your hormones checked, getting everything checked. That is something doctors should like to spare people of.”

The Johns Hopkins professor said he suspects history will treat the transgender trend much as it has the field of eugenics.

“We will come to regret it when we discover how many of the young people that were injured regret it themselves,” he said.

(Excerpt from Breitbart. Article by Susan Berry.)

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