Actor Jon Cryer defended allowing children to become transgender by comparing the phenomenon to people who are left-handed, arguing that once society stopped forcing left-handed people to write with their right hands, “left-handedness shot up” naturally, suggesting that’s the way it is supposed to be for transgender children.

“There’s a societal suppression. It’s like left-handedism,” Cryer told Bill Maher of transgenderism. “Being Left handed was suppressed for thousands of years amongst human beings.”