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Harry Sisson tells a father who pushes back on his child’s trans identity that his parenting is “pretty f*cked up.” Then the father brings up puberty blockers, and the lecture ends fast. SISSON: “Why don’t you just love and support them?” FATHER: “You can’t love and support a lie.” SISSON: “Yeah, I feel like that’s pretty f*cked up for your kid.” Then the father flips the script. FATHER: “You’re okay with a child at 12 years old getting puberty blockers?” SISSON: “Puberty blockers have been in use for children for a long time.” FATHER: “Do you know what the original puberty blockers were used for?” SISSON: “For early onset puberty.” FATHER: “Pedophiles in the state penitentiary to chemically CASTRATE them.” Sisson keeps defending the drugs. The father keeps pressing. FATHER: “Irreversible damage.” SISSON: “No, it’s not irreversible.” FATHER: “Bone loss. Seizures...” SISSON: “It’s not irreversible. But anyway, I don’t want to, I DON’T WANT TO get into a conversation about trans.” He was happy to lecture a father on how to love his son. But the moment he had to defend his own views, the conversation was over. CONTEXT: The father says his 8-year-old son identifies as “trans,” which the mother accepts. He does not. Leuprolide, sold as Lupron, was first approved in 1985 for prostate cancer and in 1993 for “precocious puberty” in children. It is also used off-label to chemically castrate sex offenders, just as the father said.