Transgender Surgery is Not Normal

(Devon's Response to Dr. McHugh's WSJ article on Transgender surgery)

http://www.wsj.com/articles/paul-mchugh-transgender-surgery-isnt-the-solution-1402615120

Dr. McHugh is absolutely brilliant, logical and the voice of reason. I've worked with him for many years and I've always agreed that fantasy and reality are two different things. Health care providers and physicians have a moral obligations to help their patients understand that we simply cannot bow to every whim and whimper of their desires i.e. transgender or sex change surgery. It is what it is and our biological makeup is just that. We are becoming a crazy "everything goes society" and just because a man might feel like he wants to be in a woman's body or a woman for that matter, we should not be performing surgeries that borders on moral questions or logic. Fake hair, hormonally charged breast, vocal change and high heels does not make you a woman when you have a penis to prove otherwise. I find sex change operations particularly troubling for psychiatrist and mental health therapist who thinks it's OK. If we do, we are merely adding to the maze of confusion in patients who already struggle with identity problems and/or mental health issues. Allied health professionals agree that delusions and other types of false perceptions can be the core symptoms of men and women who end up in psychiatric emergency rooms or mental institutions and that their delusions can be fixed (very compelling to them) and not real. To say it's Ok to change our body parts or be someone we're clearly not because we "feel" it's Ok doesn't make sense and the sooner we get back to practicing moral medicine it'll be better for all of us. The Bruce Jenner debacle is confusing and I respectfully disagree that what he's doing is normal. This is my opinion and I'll gladly entertain the thoughts of others. Regardless Mr. Jenner's showcase to the world is the kind of thing that so many in current day society go for. If you say you have a different point of view, people look at you like your weird or something. Well thank God for freedom of speech and expression. That being said, my message to Mr. Jenner is simply this: "Wake up and smell the coffee . . . you are a man and not a woman and there's something seriously wrong with your assumptions. The sooner you accept that, the sooner your fantasy will be over . . ." We simply cannot change who we are whether we like it or not.