A Focus on the Family operative, Glenn Stanton, will appear on the Dr. Phil show on Jan. 13.
According to Focus, Stanton, the “director of family formation studies” at Focus, “will again tackle the difficult topic of children who identify more with the opposite sex.”
“To be human is to be gendered,” Stanton writes. “And one of the most important jobs of a parent is to help their children develop as healthy boys or girls and into strong, confident men and women.”
Joining Stanton will be Joseph Nicolosi, former head of the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality, an organization of antigay therapists which blames patients’ homosexuality and gender variance on bad parenting and abuse.
According to the Dr. Phil web site:
Dr. Phil speaks with Toni, a mother who says she can’t stop grieving the loss of her son who, at 11, began to transition into a female. Toni feels like her son has died, and she’ having a hard time adjusting to having a daughter. Joining the discussion is family researcher Glenn Stanton and psychologist Dr. Joseph Nicolosi, who say it’ the parents’ responsibility to guide their children into their gender-born identities. On the opposite side are psychiatrist Dr. Dan Siegel and psychotherapist Dr. Michele Angello, who say children are born this way, and parents should support their children in their decision to transition to the opposite sex.
Here’s a clip of Dr. Phil’s previous show (from autumn 2008) in which Focus’ Glenn Stanton blames parents for gender variance and gender-role non-conformity.
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It -so- looks like the fix is in.
Dr. Phil’s audience will get their dose of red meat.
I hope those “ex gay” and “anti gay” activists get embarrassed by REAL scientific evidence on TV.
Wow!, they “found” out that kids are kids”they don’t know”
and also, most little boys have never been men before, and most little girls have never been women before!!!. these people are paid to make statements like this?
Obviously these people have never had these feelings before, and if they have, they want so much to define it and put it in a book so that they don’t ever get to live and enjoy life, they can take that book out and be reassured that yes!, this is my father’s fault or my mother’s, gays alike especially those involved with groups like focus on the family!, it’s attempt to hide,
to bury the shame they keep eating. My thoughts are with
the mother and her child for being so brave and not hiding!
Glenn Stanton: “What we find is that kids start out as kids, they don’t know. Most little boys have never been a man before, most little girls have never been a woman before. They need help figuring these things out, and it’ the job of the parent to come in, as you did, with such a loving heart, and care for your child, but to guide them and direct them. The children are not in the driver’ seat. They’re not the ones at the age and the maturity to be able to make these kinds of decisions. So we need to help them move in the right direction.”
He’ much more vapid in person.
Emproph,
What about single parents? Is a boy who is raised by a single mother ALWAYS going to turn out gay?
Why is there no reliability in the claims that you make?
James, Emproph was quoting Glenn Stanton.
Toni (mother) She is very happy … just ’cause you’re a psychologist doesn’t make you smarter about this than me, ’cause when you live something, you KNOW, you learn more. (the audience applauds…she and Dan are tearing the reparative theory to shreds with a bit of basic truth)
The two clips I saw are enough to tell me that this show works in the favor of the trans movement. To anyone with a capable mind, the incompetence of the pro-reparative theory docs is evident. They just don’t look right! And the mom was all over them like rouge on a Saturday night.
I think this is a coup for the trans movement period. It gets a lot of people thinking about it in a more complex way, and to me – the truth will reign. We have a lot of years of struggling left.
Look how long it took for the public to even begin to accept homosexuality enough to talk about it in mixed circles and then the long stretch to a partial acceptance by the middle culture.