USA - “Doctors don't have evidence that the treatment will be the right one," he told the outlet during a phone interview. "Many people are doing what amounts to an experiment on these young people without telling them it's an experiment." "You need evidence for that, and this is a very serious treatment," McHugh added. "It is comparable to doing frontal lobotomies."
Paul McHugh, professor and psychiatrist at Johns Hopkins University, has condemned the act of allowing children to transition from one gender to another. McHugh told the College Fix that there will likely be long-term negative implications for those children who are permitted to engage in such medical treatments.
McHugh said that he is not optimistic about children transitioning at young ages, especially when coupled with hormone treatment therapies. "They're going to be in the hands of doctors for the rest of their lives, many of them are going to be sterilized and not able to have their own children, and many will regret this," he explained. "Can you imagine having a life where you need to seek doctors all the time, for everything, just to live?" he asked. "Getting your hormones checked, getting everything checked. That is something doctors should like to spare people of."