April 23, 2025 - Epoch Times
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| I don't even call it side effects. | |
| I call them effects. | |
| That's just what happens. | |
| Right? Those aren't side effects. | |
| We are sterilizing them. | |
| Right? These are the drugs that they use to chemically castrate criminals. | |
| Lupron. So that's not a side effect. | |
| These are the things that do happen. | |
| We're making a choice. | |
| And oftentimes when you're doing a medical intervention, you make a choice between one difficult thing between another, right, if there's some kind of really severe medical issue. | |
| However, we're taking physically healthy children and then giving them these effects. | |
| That's the difference. | |
| And then calling it medicine. | |
| Instead of helping them with whatever psychological distress they're having. | |
| Or they might not even be having that much psychological distress. | |
| They might have just spent a little too much time on the Internet. | |
| There are so many different levels to this. | |
| And we're told over and over again that these drugs are reversible. | |
| I don't even understand that. | |
| That was the other weird thing when I came back. | |
| How can something that suppresses puberty be called reversible? | |
| That just... | |
| Do we need a study to even see the common sense in that? | |
| It's not reversible. | |
| You're stopping puberty. | |
| I mean, boys end up with, you know, a micropenis, and girls, they don't develop. | |
| Their bones, their bone density, it doesn't develop. | |
| They're not, you know, all of these horrible things happen. | |
| It's just, and you can't reverse the time. | |
| You can't reverse the clock. | |
| There are things that a child goes through to grow up. | |
| Those are very important developmental years, both physically and emotionally. | |
| That's not reversible. | |
| You can't ever get your childhood back. | |
| How does one go about finding a therapist in your mind if they feel they need one for their kid? | |
| Yeah, I mean, I'll tell the truth. | |
| It's not easy. | |
| Especially if you want one in person. | |
| And I don't think Zoom therapy is the greatest, especially for kids. | |
| It's become very widespread, and I don't think it's, oh, it's cracked up to be. | |
| People use it for convenience, but I don't know how effective it really is. | |
| And sometimes that can be dangerous, depending on the severity of the situation. | |
| But there are some websites out there. | |
| There are some lists, some directories. | |
| There's one directory called conservativecounselors.com. | |
| And they will not affirm your child. | |
| There's also a group called Therapy First, and that's therapyfirst.org, and they run some alternate trainings, and they don't believe in affirming children instantly. | |
| Although it depends on what you believe, because some believe that maybe eventually you should affirm. | |
| Some believe that you should never affirm. | |
| So it really depends on what you believe as a parent. | |
| So I think when you're looking for a therapist, you should always screen very carefully and don't be afraid to ask questions. | |
| And also stay very involved in the process. | |
| No therapist can ever fix your child. | |
| Even the best therapists in the world cannot fix your child without you because they're only in your child's life temporarily, and their goal is to help you connect. | |
| And they need to know what's happening with you and with your family and your child's history. | |
| They need to really be involved to be able to help your child. | |
| So that's also a big shift in the profession is just pushing the parents away. | |
| So if you are a parent looking for a therapist for your child... | |
| Make sure that you are very involved, and if the therapist says,"No, I need to have my special place with your child," that's a red flag. | |
| I mean, they do need to have some connection with your child, of course, but they should be talking to you. | |
| And they should be communicating with you. | |
| They should be talking to you at the very least about what are the treatment goals? | |
| What are they seeing are the concerns? | |
| How are they conceptualizing the case? | |
| What do they think is wrong? | |
| What do they think could help? | |
| What are the things that they think you could do as a parent? | |
| So they should be working with you. | |
| You should be working as a team with that therapist. | |
| And that's a lot more work. | |
| And with these overworked, overstressed therapists, even those that are honestly... | |
| I'd say very ethical. |
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