Epoch Times - Kids ‘need to be grounded in reality’: Pamela Garfield-Jaeger, the ‘truthful therapist’
Aired: 2025-04-22
Duration: 01:18


=== Reality Check (01:18) ===

[00:00:00]  There's a psychologist called Diane Ehrensaft who said that boys who open up their onesies and dance around, they're expressing that they really want to be girls because that's like a dress.
[00:00:10]  Or if a girl is pulling out the barrettes, a boy, girl, I'm getting it mixed up, pulls the barrettes out of her hair that she doesn't want to be a girl.
[00:00:19]  Right? Which I think someone with common sense would just look at, well, these are fussy babies that just don't want to wear barrettes or don't want their onesie on, right?
[00:00:29]  And that's sort of natural.
[00:00:30]  Kids don't want to wear their shoes.
[00:00:32]  They throw off their shoes.
[00:00:32]  Does that mean they don't want feet anymore?
[00:00:35]  But that is the philosophy.
[00:00:37]  And a lot of people start to believe it because people with these fancy letters that come from these fancy institutions repeat that over and over again.
[00:00:44]  So that's become the mainstream narrative.
[00:00:48]  However, there are people...
[00:00:49]  People like me and several others, and I think more than I even know, because they have been silenced, believe that kids don't really know themselves, that they need adults to guide them.
[00:00:58]  They need to be grounded in reality.
[00:01:01]  They need empathy and compassion, especially if they're struggling with being in their bodies, but to help them figure out their reality.
[00:01:09]  And generally speaking, when they have distress over their gender, then we need to wait and see what happens.
[00:01:17]  And usually they do grow out of it.