McHugh, whose many honors include receiving the top award of the prestigious National Academy of Sciences' (NAS) Institutes of Medicine, is the target of a special HRC attack-website, "McHugh Exposed," which accuses him of peddling "junk science."

It is an odd accusation to make against one of the most celebrated mental health professionals and researchers alive today. McHugh is credited with major research discoveries, including being "the first to describe increased cortisol secretion associated with depression, an accomplishment that led to the development of a test to identify serious depression by physical means," according to the NAS.

"His extensive work studying the control of food intake revealed how gastrointestinal and neurophysiologic mechanisms regulate caloric intake in primates and are disrupted in people with eating disorders," states the NAS release.

Last year, the editors of The New Atlantis, in publishing a special edition on sexuality and gender in their journal co-written by Dr. McHugh, called him "arguably the most important psychiatrist of the last half-century."

Many honors, stellar pedigree
Dr. McHugh's professional biography reads like a Who's Who of American psychiatry and medicine. A Harvard College and Harvard Medical School graduate, Dr. McHugh was Henry Phipps Professor and Director of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Psychiatrist-in-Chief at Johns Hopkins Hospital from 1975 to 2001.

He is the author of many books, including The Perspectives of Psychiatry, described by the NAS as "a treatise on practice methods and principles, [which] has been lauded as one of the most influential psychiatry texts in the last century."

In 1998, the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, rated by U.S. News & World Report as one of the top medical schools in the world, named Dr. McHugh the University Distinguished Service Professor. In 2015, it named a new program after him, as he became the inaugural Director of the Paul R. McHugh Program for Human Flourishing, located within the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences," according to the school's website.

Dr. McHugh was elected to the National Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine in 1992, and in 2008 received its Sarnat International Prize in Mental Health for "outstanding achievement in improving mental health."

In 2001, he was appointed by President Bush to the President's Council on Bioethics and in 2002 by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops to the National Review Board for the Protection of Children and Young People, investigating the homosexual sex-abuse scandal.

McHugh also served as Professor of Psychiatry at Cornell University School of Medicine, Clinical Director and Director of Residency Education at the New York Hospital Westchester Division, and Professor and Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at the Oregon Health Sciences Center, according to his Johns Hopkins bio.

'Amused' at HRC slander
In a recent interview with LifeSiteNews, McHugh, 85, said he was "amused" by HRC's online attack-site demonizing him, and said he will not be intimidated from speaking out against the current "craze" of transgender surgeries and hormone therapies pursued by gender-confused people seeking to "become" the opposite sex.

"I'm proud of what I've achieved," he said, noting in particular his election to the prestigious National Academy of Science's (NAS) Institute of Medicine, and the recognition and honors he has received from colleagues in the psychiatric and medical fields. "I've been a part of American psychiatry for more than 50 years."

"These are things they [HRC] wouldn't even understand," he said. "They want to portray me as some kind of crank..."

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