Did You See Our Previous Guests on Dr. Phil?!

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Apr 18, 2024

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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: