023 - The Truthful Therapist with Pamela Garfield-Jaeger

In this episode, I share my conversation with Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Pamela Garfield-Jaeger, aka, The Truthful Therapist.

Pamela has become well-known in recent years for pushing back against the claims of gender ideology and so-called "gender-affirming" medicine. In her work and advocacy to protect those struggling with gender dysphoria and distress, she leans into what the scientific evidence does and does not say. Pamela has been featured in multiple documentaries on the subject and has testified both for and against many bills across the US related to gender medicine.

Check out Pamela's website here, and her new book, A Practical Response to Gender Distress: Tips and Tools for Families. Follow Pamela online here: IG @the.truthfultherapist Twitter/X @truththerapist YouTube @thetruthfultherapist Substack

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Topics covered/touched upon in this episode: 

• Pamela's background and the issues in the counselling profession, particularly when it comes to gender ideology and the legislated demands to unquestioningly "affirm" a patient's new identity

• Activist claims about trans suicides vs reality

• Progressive politics on several topics, how people have good intentions, where they go wrong, and how it leads to bad/counterproductive policies

• Recent trainings Pamela's been to and how many people pushing progressive ideologies in her profession are afraid that their narratives are crumbling and the mounting pushback against them

•  How many of the challenges being positioned as unique to the trans community are, in fact, mostly normal human challenges many people struggle with, especially during puberty, trying to find/create your identity, and becoming an adult

• How there are many potential motivations influencing people to adopt a trans identity vs the simplistic narratives being pushed

• The multi-billion dollar industry interests pushing and financing this movement, and how progressive activists are unable or unwilling to acknowledge the complexity of these issues

• The social clout of reinforcing victim identities

• Internal Family Systems and how many useful concepts have been twisted to the point of being pathological

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Other things mentioned/to check out: 

• Thomas Sowell

• Honestly podcast episode with Freddie deBoer, Does Glorifying Sickness Deter Healing?

• JBP’s conversation with detransitioner Chloe Cole and how therapists are neglecting their duties, particularly when it comes to gender dysphoria

• JBP’s conversation with physician, Dr. Miriam Grossman, on the horrifying history of gender ideology and medicine, and how it is destroying families

• JBP's conversation with former clinician working in the field of transgender medicine, Sara Stockton, who helped to create the process to assess gender-dysphoric children for medical intervention, which she regrets

• Explosive Whose Body Is It? podcast episode with Leigh Janet Marshall, Detransition and Growth

• The WPATH Files, which show through leaked documents from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health that the narratives and interventions for gender medicine are not scientific, not medicine, nor backed by evidence. They also show that many practitioners know that they are not getting proper informed consent from patients or their parents and know that they are causing great harms to them

• Doc: No Way Back: The Reality of Gender-Affirming Care • Doc: Dysconnected: The Real Story Behind the Transgender Explosion • Doc: Trans Mission: What's the Rush to Reassign Gender? • Doc: Cut: Daughters of the West • Doc: Gender Transformation: The Untold Realities • Doc: What is a Woman?

• Resources from Pamela's website

• Therapy First, Psychotherapy as first-line treatment for gender dysphoria

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