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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Mid 50s, and I worry more about the destruction we've done to our planet and wonder if it can be salvaged.  [/quote]

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I also think the pollution--[b]hormones in the water supply and plastics that disrupt endocrines[/b] are part of the reason for the statistically improbable number of gender fluid teens and reduced fertility and testosterone levels and increase in cancers that used to effect the older population in young adults.  The fish in the Potomac are now intersex.

Intersex conditions in male smallmouth bass are widespread in the Potomac River basin: 50 to 75 percent of male smallmouth bass collected in the South Branch Potomac River exhibited signs of feminization, as did 100 percent of those collected at sites in the Shenandoah.[/quote]

I also believe that environmental xenohormones are affecting our health in undetermined ways - possibly even gender development.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12456297/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4303243/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK222286/
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[b]This is such a right wing trope. [/b]Very stupid. Intersex, gender fluid issues have been around since recorded history. There are many cultures in South Asia where this is just a normal part of life.

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Really? Hadn’t heard this anywhere else. Definitely not a RWNJ.

I do think there are environmental factors that affect our development/gene expression. 
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Really? Then how do you explain diversity in gender and sexuality for centuries? [/quote]

Variation in naturally-occurring hormones in embryo's environment.

Could be multiple triggers for gene expression. 
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Which means it happens in the same way we have all types of biological diversity,  and not something odd we are doing to cause an anomaly.   [/quote]

It could be both.

Normal diversity, amplified by new environmental factors. 
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With the same outcomes as centuries ago, is that right? Where were the plastics and hormones in the 1500s?[/quote]

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