Chemicals Turning Unborn Boys Into Girls

[loulabelle]

I don't like the sound of that at all.I think it's messing with mother nature a little too much.

[Aimz]

It would have to be a massive change to the DNA triggered by these chemicals. Weird...

[butterfly_warrior]

How do they know if it's a change in the mother's body, or whether it's something happening to the men to make them produce an over abundance of female sperm? Or perhaps something that is damaging the male sperm.

It just seems a bit odd - the implication is that there's a whole bunch of female babies running around with XY chromosomes.

BW

[briggsy's girl]

the way it's written is essentially what BW said - XY chromosomes, but expressing XX characteristics - sounds very odd! i would be thinking it is more likely that the chemicals are impacting the men and their sperm - or that the uterine environment isn't as welcoming to male sperm and more female sperm are getting through...

[Tanya]

If a woman has too much testosterone while pg it can cause little girls to grow boy parts... maybe the chemicals are imitating these hormones?

[briggsy's girl]

Tanya - i've not read of the mother's testosterone levels altering the physical characteristics of a female child, so would be interested in reading some studies on that. i HAVE read of higher levels of testosterone leading to more "tomboy-ish" behaviour though. i, and a lot of women with PCOS, have higher levels of circulating testosterone (and other androgenic hormones) - and in discussions with both FS and endocrinologist about the impact of this on a child of either gender, they stated there would be no impact. there are drugs that can aid in this long term, but not until after we finish our family as they are androgen inhibiting and would be essentially deadly to a male child

as far as i know the gender of a child is determined solely by the X and Y chromosomes - children that carry both genitals or ambiguous genitals are generally found to carry multiple copies of sex chromosomes (XXY etc)

[Tanya]

BG, when I say high testosterone I don't mean natural testosterone... does that make sense. I mean even tho your PCOS causes high testosterone it isn't high enough to make a difference to bub's genitalia...
Oh and one more thing BG... there are lots of studies that show a correlation between high female testosterone and increase in male offspring

[briggsy's girl]

tanya - i've been googling and trying to locate studies, and still only coming up with information of behaviour, and lower birth weights of babies. i would be genuinely interested to read any other information - not trying to cause any dramas - i'm genuinely interested in reading this kind of information