[AnAmericanMother]

Well, many species of fish are hermaphroditic and always have been (anybody who's kept guppies, swordtails, or platys knows that).

I'd like to see the numbers on hermaphroditic bass and whether this has occurred historically.

I mean, we KNOW how honest the popular "science" is on global warming, and so forth.

[Smokin' Joe]

I grew up on a tidewater tributary to the Potomac before birth control pills came out, and you never heard of hermaphroditic fish there.

I do have to question one thing the writer said, that being whether they meant Striped Bass, or Largemouth Bass. Striped Bass were common in the lower reaches of the Potomac (tidewater--open to the ocean and brackish). Below D.C. (actually Great Falls) the Potomac is tidewater, above that point, fresh.

[Mrs. Don-o]

It's a story that makes the MSM uncomfortable, I'd speculate, because it implies there's somehing actually wrong, pathological, about gender confusion, and that the solution might involve curbing hormonal contraceptives.

I've been reading about this for 15 years in the scientific press, but not til this year has it made it onto the media radar. If you google endocrine disruption estrogen fish amphibians, though, you'll get 55,200 results.

I think this is something more than genderqueer guppies.