Does Bodily Mutilation Make Kids Happy?
The Michele Tafoya Podcast
Salem Podcast Network
2.4 • 590 Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2024
⏱️ 54 minutes
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The world is paying attention to the Supreme Court of the United States. SCOTUS is considering whether or not Tennessee’s ban on transgender medical procedures is constitutional. In the U.K., James ESSES — therapist, writer, activist and founder of Just-Therapy.org — is paying close attention. But his point of view may surprise you.
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| 0:00.0 | It's also interesting. You mentioned about happiness, which got me thinking from a kind of therapeutic philosophical perspective. We talk about happiness as if that is the purpose in life. And I don't agree with that anymore. As lovely as it would be, life is inherently unfair. It comes with uncertainty. |
| 0:22.5 | It comes with ups and downs. None of us know why we're here and none of us know when we're going to |
| 0:26.8 | die. And so I actually don't think happiness is what life is all about. I feel this embracing |
| 0:32.0 | the reality of life is what we should be living for. And that is why we should never be affirming |
| 0:37.0 | delusional thinking in other people, |
| 0:38.9 | even if it makes them feel happy in the moment. |
| 0:40.9 | It's not doing them any favors. |
| 0:49.9 | James Siss is a psychotherapist. |
| 0:52.2 | He used to work in law in the UK. |
| 1:11.5 | He is now the founder of justtherapy.org, just hyphen therapy.org. And I'm going to tell you about their code of conduct. It's one simple paragraph. But first, let me remind you to please subscribe to this podcast. Just hit that subscribe button. It's free of charge. It's not going to cost you anything and you're going to make sure you never miss an episode. So click the subscribe. Give us a review. |
| 1:16.8 | Like us, all of that kind of stuff. It helps us stay afloat. And when we stay afloat, you get to |
| 1:21.9 | hear interviews like this one that you may never have gotten to. Because James S is a guy from the UK |
| 1:26.8 | who we spoke to about |
| 1:29.9 | what's going on at the Supreme Court right now because gender ideology is a worldwide thing. |
| 1:36.7 | And certainly in the UK, they are a little bit ahead of us in terms of the legality of puberty |
| 1:42.8 | blockers, hormone blockers or cross-sex therapy, all of those things. |
| 1:47.4 | And James is a psychotherapist, and he said, look, a lot of psychologists and psychiatrists right now have the gender ideology woven into their practices. |
| 1:55.2 | So if you take a kid who has gender dysphoria to one of these therapists, that therapist might push them into believing, |
| 2:02.4 | you're right, you were born in the wrong body. |
| 2:04.9 | So James S has started this justtherapy.org. |
| 2:08.3 | Here's their code of conduct. |
| 2:10.1 | I think it's hard to disagree with. |
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