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I wonder if many of the gender dysphoria issues and related politics we're seeing now have an underlying factor of hormone disruption due to widespread pollutio

I wonder if many of the gender dysphoria issues and related politics we're seeing now have an underlying factor of hormone disruption due to widespread pollution. We should be pursuing the banning of bisphenols, phthalates, and PFAS for any products that touch food or water (or eventually leach into groundwater) as a strategic priority.

rib3ye 4y ago
If you're making the connection that gender dysphoria could be "prevented" through environmental and FDA protections maybe you should be working in politics.
- bhouston 4y ago
  It is hard to know for sure if it isn't studied. Environmental pollution can disrupt sexual development in animals. There are a number of chemicals that frogs are sensitive too that mess with their sexual development. Here is the first google hit I can find: https://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2002/04/15_frogs.html https://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2002/04/15_frog...
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bhouston 4y ago
> I wonder if many of the gender dysphoria issues and related politics we're seeing now have an underlying factor of hormone disruption due to widespread pollution. It is worth more research into this. Hard to make predictions but having environmental causes underlying some of these trends, at least to a degree, is possible. I think the lower fertility rate among first world nations is also partially tied into endocrine disruptors as well.