Gina Loudon, Trump supporter/"counselor for sexually abused women" on MSNBC

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6. "star" of some reality program called "wife swap"?

"star" of some reality program called "wife swap"? Is that the one? I knew I recognized her name.

Rawstory:

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/10/fox-psychology-expert-only-science-deniers-believe-sex-reassignment-surgery-works-for-transgender-people/

Loudon, a tea party activist who became a reality star after she and her husband joined ABC’s Wife Swap, insisted that it was “absolutely not” cruel and unusual punishment to withhold surgery from transgender inmates.

“And the science is on my side of this,” she remarked. “I’m not sure why the other side is deciding to be science deniers now. Johns Hopkins University ended their program because they realized that people who go through with the sex change surgery have a 20 fold increase in suicide rates as opposed to those who don’t.”

Loudon was mostly likely citing a debunked interpretation of former psychiatrist in chief at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Dr. Paul McHugh, who claimed that a study launched in the 1970s showed that “suicide mortality rose almost 20-fold above the comparable nontransgender population” after reassignment surgeries.

<snip to more at rawstory link>