Dangerous hormone-disrupting chemicals found in US breast milk samples

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Re: Dangerous hormone-disrupting chemicals found in US breast milk samples

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Post by akramachamarei » Mon, Jun 15, 2026, 8:48 PM UTC

true_religion wrote: post #32

spcebar wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Being transgender represents a misalignment between your internal sense of self and the sex you were born with. Sometimes this is about societal expectations and pressure to conform to gender ideals, sometimes it is about the physical body you were born into/the primary and secondary sex attributes of that body, and often it's both. Hormone replacement therapy is a way of altering the body's secondary sexual attribut…

I am not going to say that I agree with OP, or that OP's language isn't entirely too casual for someone close to this issue but it appears they're most focused on finding out why people have a different inner self than outer expression. We recognize that the inner self's gender is unalterable (and if it weren't, I'm not sure I'd be comfortable with that sort of mind control), so we must bring the outer in alignment.…

Why would the "inner self's gender" be unalterable? Almost everything about a person can change, even after reaching adulthood, height, weight, strength, personality, phobias, preferences, beliefs.

Re: Dangerous hormone-disrupting chemicals found in US breast milk samples

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Post by estearum » Mon, Jun 15, 2026, 9:22 PM UTC

akramachamarei wrote: post #50

estearum wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you mean potentially showing up as a global decline in fertility rates and multi-generational bioaccumulation of these compounds, threatening to destroy the foundational structure of modern civilization (population growth)? Well, do I have news for you!

Which is not to say that it's interfering with fertility rates by making partners less potent/fertile, because, presumably, we would have heard about a significant increase in failures to conceive. Or is your implication that it has affected sex drive?

My implication is that there are indeed large scale changes that are totally concordant with large scale endocrine disruption.

Desire to mate, sperm count and quality, rising obesity, falling testosterone, increases in testicular, prostate, and breast cancer, increases in autism and attention disorders, etc. etc.

It's ridiculous to say that we know these aren't causing problems because "we haven't seen problems." We do indeed see very, very big problems population-wide that are similar to what we see in the lab when poisoning mammals with these chemicals.

Presumably none of these problems is caused exclusively by EDCs, and potentially none of them are caused by EDCs at all. But there are plenty of changes worth investigating.

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