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Hard not to wonder if the endocrine disrupting chemicals we haven't banned but are changing sexes of many species, likely including ourselves, contributed.

• Blikkentrekker 6y ago
  It's unlikely, since this resulted from an abnormality in early development, before the specimen developed an endoctrinal system. N.b. that bisexual chmærism happens all the time, but tends to go unnoticed so long as both gonads belong to the same sex, which is typically the case, as they are organs located close together. What triggers this is that both gonads belong to different strata of the chimæra, and that thus one develops into male gonads, and the other into female gonads. One's entire body can belong to a female stratum in the chimæra, but so long as only the tissue that forms the gonads belongs to a male stratum, they will develop into testes, and influence the entire female stratum to also develop masculine characteristics, as male and female cells are not differently receptive to sex hormones.
• Karawebnetwork 6y ago
  This is not an endocrine disruption but a genetic condition.
  • jijji 6y ago
    unfortunately, endocrine disruptors causes genetic conditions that mutate through offspring of future generations [1]... [1] https://www.axios.com/falling-sperm-count-endocrine-disruption-59c8be98-bfad-4e9b-8738-985ece67a21d.html https://www.axios.com/falling-sperm-count-endocrine-disrupti...
    • Hitton 6y ago
      Why don't you read at least the abstracts of links you post? None of the links says that. One of the links mentions epigenetic changes which can propagate, that's something quite different from mutating genetics.
• jijji 6y ago
  It's ironic how the most insightful comments on this site get the most downvotes. As if endocrine disrupting chemicals in the enivronment are not a possible contributing factor, and the eventual downfall and extinction of most if not all species. [1] [1] https://www.axios.com/falling-sperm-count-endocrine-disruption-59c8be98-bfad-4e9b-8738-985ece67a21d.html https://www.axios.com/falling-sperm-count-endocrine-disrupti...
  • kludgeon 6y ago
    1. be wary of all citations to a _meta_ analysis; 2. be wary of dated results that are being republished without further research; 3. be very wary of publishers with an agenda beyond the fourth estate. 1. check 2. 13-page report published in 2017 without follow up turned into a book released yesterday 3. axios "Between the Lines" (https://www.axios.com/about/ https://www.axios.com/about/) just because i like and/or agree with axios does not let them off the hook on #3
    • jijji 6y ago
      The body of evidence about the effects of endocrine disruptors/gender bending chemicals on the destruction of species is many decades in the making. Axios is just one of many to publish such stories: [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2726844/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2726844/ [2] https://www.epa.gov/chemical-research/research-endocrine-disruptors https://www.epa.gov/chemical-research/research-endocrine-dis... [3] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41574-019-0273-8 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41574-019-0273-8 [4] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/landia/article/PIIS2213-8587(20)30129-7/fulltext https://www.thelancet.com/journals/landia/article/PIIS2213-8... [5] https://academic.oup.com/mend/article/30/8/833/2747295 https://academic.oup.com/mend/article/30/8/833/2747295 [6] https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn7440-gender-bending-chemicals-found-to-feminise-boys/ https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn7440-gender-bending-c... [7] https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg18625023-300-infant-males-affected-by-gender-bending-chemicals/ https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg18625023-300-infant-m... [8] https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn1298-gender-bending-chemicals-disrupt-plants-too/ https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn1298-gender-bending-c... [9] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-24505-w https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-24505-w Another 739 studies: [10] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2726844/citedby/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2726844/citedby...
• cheph 6y ago
  endocrine disrupting chemicals cannot change sex.