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Prominent provocateur and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones went viral in 2017 claiming there were “chemicals in the water that turn the friggin’ frogs gay.” The ridicule was swift and severe. Multiple remixes of the clip laying Jones’ rant atop club music were posted to YouTube, and crafters on Etsy sold merchandise depicting frogs frolicking among rainbows. But today, nearly a decade later, someone who buys into the matching conspiracy could soon be the nation’s top health official, with two Senate committees considering Robert F. Kennedy’s nomination to manage the Department of Health and Human Services this week. Kennedy has spread misinformation multiple times over the past three years claiming that herbicides and other chemicals are leading to “gender confusion” among kids and “destroying them.” That those claims have barely entered the public discourse over his nomination speaks to both the vast number of conspiracies Kennedy spreads, and also to the rise of alt-right groups and other conservatives twisting environmental science to justify restricting the rights of vulnerable populations. Kennedy’s promotion of chemical Atrazine, one of the world’s most widely used pesticides, wreaks havoc with the sex lives of adult male frogs, emasculating three-quarters of them and turning one in 10 into females, according to a modern study by University of California, Berkeley, biologists. The 75 percent that are chemically castrated are essentially “dead” because of their inability to reproduce in the wild, reports UC Berkeley’s Tyrone B. Hayes, professor of integrative biology. “These male frogs are missing testosterone and all the things that testosterone controls, including sperm. So their fertility is as low as 10 percent in some cases, and that is only if we isolate those animals and pair them with females,” he said. “In an environment where they are competing with unexposed animals, they have zero chance of reproducing.” The 10 percent or more that turn from males into females – something not known to occur under natural conditions in amphibians – can successfully mate with male frogs but, because these females are genetically male, all their offspring are male. “When we grow these guys up, dep In 2002, biologist Dr. Tyrone Hayes conducted a series of experiments that revealed that the most common herbicide, Atrazine, “feminized” male frogs at concentrations below that allowed in drinking fluid in the Together States.1 He hypothesized that Atrazine works as an endocrine-disrupting chemical (EDC), converting testosterone to estrogen in frogs. Hayes’s research ignited an ongoing political controversy over whether Atrazine causes hermaphroditism in amphibians, humans, and other species. Although the manufacturer of Atrazine, Syngenta, argues that the pesticide is safe, Hayes and other scientists contain increasingly demonstrated a link between Atrazine and threats to public health and the environment. In this essay, I examine the role of gendered r
‘Gay frogs’ and atrazine: Why the alt-right likes RFK Jr.
Pesticide atrazine can turn male frogs into females
“Chemical Castration”: Ivory Genocide and Male Extinction in Rhetoric of Endocrine Disruption
Editor’s Note: This is the third post in the series, Succession: Queering the Environment, which centers queer people, non-humans, systems, and ideas and explores their impact within the fields of environmental history, environmental humanities, and gay ecology.