Alternet: How the Christian Right Is Using Junk Science to Attack Transgender Rights
According to a Political Research Associates profile, Dr. Paul McHugh “has actively worked against the medical treatment of trans people since the 1970s, [and] ….In an essay published in The American Scholar, McHugh indicates that part of his incentive for taking over Johns Hopkins’ psychiatry department was to shut down the institution’s Gender Identity Clinic, which had been at the forefront of transgender medicine since 1966.” He succeeded in shutting it down in 1979.