Premium: Being Male or Female is Not a Feeling State
Gender: A Wider Lens
Sasha Ayad and Stella O'Malley
4.6 • 961 Ratings
🗓️ 16 November 2024
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Summary
Honesty and authenticity are critical when discussing identity issues. Rather than avoiding uncomfortable truths or pandering to claims that may oversimplify complex realities, fostering honest discussions can help adolescents build resilience and navigate complexities with greater confidence. Parents, educators, and professionals must strike a balance between compassion and clarity, empowering young people to understand and embrace the nuanced realities of identity.
Through informed, empathetic engagement, society can better support adolescents in exploring their identities while safeguarding their well-being and long-term health.
In this bonus episode for premium subscribers, Dr. Hakeem strongly advocates for transparency, critical thinking, and a commitment to ethical care in addressing gender dysphoria. His approach focuses on safeguarding the psychological and physical health of young people while fostering an environment where they can thoughtfully explore their identities without undue pressure.
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| 0:23.7 | Now, here's the preview of this week's exclusive content. |
| 0:26.9 | What should parents do, right? |
| 0:30.6 | If their kids are getting into this and you said, of course, don't collude with them, |
| 0:32.4 | help them piece together. |
| 0:34.3 | How did they get to their conclusion? |
| 0:39.7 | So I can just imagine parents in my mind and, course kids that I've worked with who feel so protective and nervous about this solution that they truly believe. This is |
| 0:47.9 | the answer. So anybody who's asking me to like show my work essentially is trying to slip me up. |
| 0:55.0 | They're trying to challenge me. |
| 0:56.3 | They're backing me into a quarter. |
| 0:57.5 | So what do you say to parents who have that problem? |
| 1:00.2 | Is to come across as wanting, as the parent wanting to understand. |
| 1:05.3 | Because you say, look, I don't get it. |
| 1:07.8 | Clearly you get it. |
| 1:08.9 | Help me get it. |
| 1:09.8 | Because I don't get it. |
| 1:11.9 | So you're not challenging and confronting them. You're coming across as a stupid person that doesn't understand |
| 1:15.6 | anything and you want them to teach you how they got there to make sense to you. You can say, |
| 1:21.0 | when they start quoting stats and stuff, say, no, no, no, I'm not interested in you because |
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