Hi everybody Cheryl Ackison here. Welcome to another edition of full measure after hours.

Today the question of a common chemical found in our drinking water that is known to

feminize male animals, masculineize female animals, and some researchers insist is

having a dire effect on people.

I'm pretty sure that you're going to find the subject of today's podcast

one of the most interesting you've heard in a long time. By way of

background, I've put a lot of thought into and done a bit of research into the trend of people

becoming, let's say, gender confused.

I started thinking about it years ago

when I did my first news report at CBS News

about a drug called Risper doll,

commonly given at the time to autistic children off label.

It was really designed for seriously bipolar children.

But side effects include something called gynecomastia, boys growing girls breasts and young girls

developing unnaturally even prior to puberty. That side effect Gienicomastia

was denied by the drugmaker but ultimately after a lot of lawsuits, added to the label as a warning, and there have been many lawsuits.

These poor boys impacted some of them had to have double mastectomies. But something that stuck in my mind

when I did the very first story was a mom I spoke to, the mother of a boy who claimed that

he had been completely normal in terms of his sexuality, but when he was prescribed

Risperdahl, he grew breasts and told her suddenly that he felt like a girl.

And most importantly, she says, when he went off the medicine

because the side effect was recognized,

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