Fish becoming transgender from contraceptive pill chemicals being flushed down household drains

UK Telegraph ^ | July 2, 2017 | Sophie Jamieson

[Moltke]

[Romulus]

Since when do fish have gender?

[Fireone]

Absolute Bull$&&t! More “climate science” on a different subject. Liberal insanity running wild.

[ETL]

If you have a tank full of female guppies or swordtails....one or two will transform in males. It’s normal for some fish.

Brings to mind a few scenes from Jurassic Park.

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In the movie and novel, the geneticists turned off the genes that allowed the dinosaurs to produce the hormones to become a male. All vertebrate embryos start off with female genitalia, and given the right hormones, the offspring will become male.

The geneticists, in the movie and novel, turn off these genes for safety purposes [so the dinosaurs could not breed and multiply], but in Jurassic Park 2 on Isla Sorna, both males and females exist for breeding. The product of these breedings are eggs, and the eggs are possibly taken back to Site A, Isla Nublar, where the embryos are denied the ability to become male.

However, in the movie and novel, the genes of frogs were used to fill in the gaps in the dinosaur genetic code. They mutate, and the dinosaurs become sequential hermaphrodites, like the frogs, and can switch genders from female to male or female to hermaprodite so that they can fertilize their own eggs with their own sperm.

In the ‘80s it was observed that female frogs could become fully functional males.[1]

In the Jurassic Park novel and the movie it is stated that when genes from the dinosaur genome were lost, the frog-version of those genes were built into the new dinosaurs. In the story, the presence of these frog-genes gave the dinosaurs the ability to switch sexes and reproduce.

In reality, this is very unlikely. The ability to switch sexes is a very complex mechanism that demands the interplay of many genes. If the Jurassic Park scientists deliberately wanted to build this ability into their dinosaurs, it would have been a very hard job. Therefore, it is unlikely they gave their dinosaurs this ability by chance.

http://jurassicpark.wikia.com/wiki/Gender_control

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***A fifth of male fish are now transgender***

Look at the good side of it, for the other 4/5ths of male fish! LESS COMPETITION FOR FEMALES!

[ilovesarah2012]

And I assume we are all also drinking antibiotics and pain medication and all sorts of prescriptions. Why single out birth control?

[oldasrocks]

Don’t drink the water, take a bath or go swimming.

[Vinnie]

Groupers are ‘born’ female and can change sex to male.
Hey, why not use ‘Grouper’ as the official sex of female-male trannys?

[DPMD]

So it’s an inner form of pollution that prompts the change to transsexualism. For fish it’s chemical, for humans it’s mental.

[Garth Tater]

The subtle effects on males in very early developmental stages might not be observable til years later.

Testosterone levels have dropped 30% in the last 30 years and more than 40% in the last 70 years. A 35 year old man today has the testosterone level that a 65 year man had a generation ago.

If the decline continues at it's current rate of approximately 1% per year we will soon have no men.

The normal range of testosterone is reported as 350- 1200ng/dl. Studies in the 1940's showed the average testosterone level to be at 700 ng/dl, 300 ng/dl higher than for men today. In the past, a drop in testosterone levels to 250 ng/dl was rarely reported before men were 80 years of age. Yet today, it is not an uncommon value for middle aged men!

[doorgunner69]

That might explain much about millenials.......
Just sayin'

[Mrs. Don-o]

The antihumanists may well regard worldwide male subfertility as not a glitch but a feature. Pleased at the evidence that the xenoestrogens in the water are having their, um, therapeutic effect!

Or -— let’s not indulge in conspiracy thinking, now -— most likely they just see waning maleness in general as a happy spinoff benefit.

[Mrs. Don-o]

It seems to be the one we have most evidence for.

Although as you probably know, the universal antibiotic exposure has its own disastrous train of consequences,

[Garth Tater]

let’s not indulge in conspiracy thinking

No. I go there. The lowered testosterone levels are by design. Otherwise such obvious changes in male sexuality and aggression would have been discussed far and wide (especially in these days of the internet) - and it's not. Do a little google searching for dropping testosterone levels in modern males and see what I mean. There's not much out there.

[Albion Wilde]

I haven’t swept the whole thread to see if you’re on here; so ping!

[Black Agnes]

Thanks. One of many causes.