Did You See Our Previous Guests on Dr. Phil?!
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Recently, former guests of our podcast, Jamie Reed, Eithan Haim and Leor Sapir were all featured on a full-length primetime special on Phil McGraw’s new media platform.
Merit Street Media, is a new multi-platform media network from “Dr. Phil” McGraw, that was launched earlier this month at McGraw's new studio in Fort Worth.
As part of the new network lineup, Dr. Phil hosts Dr. Phil Primetime. We were excited to see that Episode 7 of Season 1 featured numerous friends of the Gender: A Wider Lens podcast, in an episode titled “The Whistleblowers: How Young is Too Young to Transition?”
Whether you are a fan of Dr. Phil or not, this is a very big deal! Dr. Phil has a huge mainstream audience. According to BusinessWire the new media platform is “bringing a lineup of captivating shows and innovative content to over 80 million homes — the largest network TV launch in decades.”
The episode on transition is full of powerful statements like:
“As a doctor you have a responsibility to the people you take care of. If you’re not willing to defend what you’re doing to those people in the public eye, then it’s very likely you’re doing something very very wrong.” —Dr. Eithan Haim
“We had patients contacting us begging us to put body parts back on, after having [gender] surgeries.” —Jamie Reed
Leor Sapir goes on to point out that he does not like to use the term “gender-affirming care,” but instead opts for the more neutral term “sex-trait modification,” or “pediatric sex-trait modification.”
Leor says “[the term] gender-affirming care is a term of approval, it’s marketing, in the same way that calling this child abuse is also a term of disapproval; these are moral terms. The neutral scientific term is sex-trait modification.”
If you’d like to watch the full episode, go to https://www.meritplus.com and sign up, it’s free. Then look for Dr. Phil Primetime. The name of the episode is “The Whistleblowers: How Young is Too Young to Transition?”
To watch or listen to these incredible guests on the Wider Lens podcast follow the links below:
Here are some questions for our community, that you can discuss in the comments section…
Have you watched the episode? What did you think?
Now that this conversation has entered the mainstream (finally!) what should happen next? How do we continue to move forward in a positive direction with productive communication, and not just push people deeper into their respective corners?
I thought Jamie's passionate words near the end were perfect, and the thunderous applause from the audience showed agreement. That instead of changing people's bodies to adapt to any lack of societal acceptance of "gender non-conformity," we should change the world to allow for a boy to wear nail polish and a dress and not be bullied and likewise for a girl to eschew the societal norms of femininity without everyone assuming she's a boy or butch or even gay but just none of your business, let her BE. Bring back "Free to be You and Me." Billboard Chris says, "There are two sexes, ZERO genders, and infinite personalities." It might (understatement) have been nice if Phil had said something to the effect of, mea culpa, I've been a part of feeding this trans lie to society partly by platforming transhausen parents, and I've learned a lot since, and I wish my good friend here up on stage with us could be looking as fine as she is on the surface without the harms of hormones and possible surgeries, and we certainly should be protecting kids from what we now know is harmful, from what they might change their minds about, from what the adults in the room have been falsely telling them is possible, good, reversible, and safe, and from what will limit and shorten their futures in so many ways. But, at least he's platforming some of our heroes now...And, by the way, kind of a trip to see Leor on daytime drama tv!! Crazy times.
Someone who has an “in” with Uri Berliner, who just resigned from NPR, should approach him with this story.