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Contraceptive pill in water causing gender confusion?

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midclegs · 08/02/2020 23:54

Had dinner with a friend tonight who's fairly uninformed on GC issues (well at least she was before this evening) but has always been anti-woke, a good independent thinker.

She mentioned that she'd read something many many years ago about the effect of the contraceptive pill in our potable water supply impacting not only fertility but 'gender confusion' in the following generation. Sounds a little like codswallop to me. Has anyone else heard this?

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midclegs · 09/02/2020 00:31

Ah - she did mention fish, so this is possibly what she had read.

I have to admit it was a relief to have a discussion with someone who was willing to listen and discuss. (After losing a friendship of 25 years a week or so ago talking about this). Not knowing anything about the gender extremism movement - but she bringing up the "no one calls me cis" was refreshing.

She also said "not many of us know about this - but if trans start taking away medals (any) in the Olympics there's going to be a huge backlash".

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OccasionalKite · 09/02/2020 00:24

Just another way for men to blame women for current environmental problems? Which have actually been caused by rogue capitalism?

Not a particularly noted feature of feminism, rogue capitalism!

ErrolTheDragon · 09/02/2020 00:20

Looks like there's evidence that estrogenic compounds present in water may have an effect on some aquatic animals - this was for a while assumed to be because of the pill but proper analysis shows otherwise.

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20977246

And

www.webmd.com/women/news/20101209/birth-control-pills-not-a-major-source-of-estrogen-in-water-supply#1

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midclegs · 09/02/2020 00:16

I'd read about it in the context of female infertility. I did say that the prevalence of the pill in our drinking water perhaps might have some sort of impact on chromosomes, but not psychology. I'm no scientist of that sort though. Question for fondofbeetles maybe.

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OncewasLangandClegtwo · 09/02/2020 00:14

It's a it like how lowering testostone lowers the risk of men who have sexually abused babies and children.

www.google.com/amp/s/metro.co.uk/2020/01/17/pedophile-molested-baby-freed-jail-transitioning-become-woman-12077980/amp/

Codswallop

MrsWednesdayteatime · 08/02/2020 23:59

I thought I read about it years ago, but more in relation to possible causes of male infertility, can't remember if it was debunked or not.

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midclegs · 08/02/2020 23:54

Sorry - rubbish title

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