Dr. Paul McHugh, professor of psychiatry at John Hopkins, is one of those voices. He has expressed serious concern about encouraging transgenderism as normal rather than identifying it as a mental disorder. He is particularly apprehensive about “misguided doctors” who will “administer ‘puberty-delaying hormones’ ” to young children “even though the drugs stunt the children’s growth and risk causing sterility.” Dr. McHugh said that these actions come “close to child abuse,” given that about 80 percent of those children will outgrow their gender confusion and develop to accept their biological
