Gay frog

She is a senior fellow with the climate justice organization, Our Climate Voices, where she helps amplify the stories of those most affected by climate change. Imagine thinking science is nothing but a big meanie! Attitudes like this prevent it from being a viable discussion. She is a recipient of the ial scholarship, which recognizes the top admitted graduate students at Harvard for their leadership and innovation potential in both public policy and academia.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s claim appears to be based on a University of California, Berkeley study that found that when male frogs were exposed to atrazine, some lost fertility and developed. In the present study, we examined the long-term effects of atrazine exposure on reproductive development and function in an all-male population of African clawed frogs (Xenopus laevis), generated by crossing ZZ females (sex-reversed genetic males) to ZZ males (SI Materials and Methods).

During its Universal Periodic Review cycle, the United States of America (U.S.) received recommendations from Iceland, Belgium, France, and Malta regarding . Most notably, American conspiracy theorist Alex Jones cited research on the effects of atrazine on frogs, which can induce spontaneous sex change or hermaphroditism, to claim that the U.S. government was "putting chemicals in the water that turn the friggin’ frogs gay" as part of a "chemical warfare operation" to increase homosexuality and.

Feminist science studies scholars view this as an example of the broader phenomenon of casting white male decline in biological terms. The herbicide atrazine, one of the world's most widely used pesticides, screws up the sex lives of adult male frogs, emasculating three-quarters of them and turning one in 10 into females, according to a new study by UC Berkeley's Tyrone Hayes.

This article offers a genealogy of the gay frog, situating this recent moment in the longer history of “sex panics” over gay animals described by queer ecologists, and in the context of an ongoing backlash against feminism and trans liberation. Bio Latest Posts. In the context of the rhetoric of male decline, white heterosexual masculinity becomes an endangered species. In , a government lab did request funds to pursue the development.

A photograph in the article shows two frogs in amplexus—the mating position of frogs, where one frog clasps the lower back of another fig. "The majority of frogs in most areas of the United States are now gay," Jones said in The claim was without evidence. Fertility rates in people, in the US for example are dropping too. "The majority of frogs in most areas of the United States are now gay," Jones said in The claim was without evidence.

The herbicide atrazine, one of the world's most widely used pesticides, screws up the sex lives of adult male frogs, emasculating three-quarters of them and turning one in 10 into females, according to a new study by UC Berkeley's Tyrone Hayes. Scholars in queer ecologies, a subfield that explores the intersection of queer theory and environmental studies, have probed how representations of endocrine disruption in popular culture are imbued with normative judgments about the desirability of human sexual variability.

A National Geographic article opens with the Hayes et al. Please, can anyone explain how exactly the poisoned land and water is not affecting minorities just as much, if not more? In , a government lab did request funds to pursue the development. This article offers a genealogy of the gay frog, situating this recent moment in the longer history of “sex panics” over gay animals described by queer ecologists, and in the context of an ongoing backlash against feminism and trans liberation.

Hayes et al. The following two tabs change content below. This essay contributes novel analysis of how the gendered rhetoric of EDCs translates in the discourses of the contemporary alt right. In , biologist Dr. Although the manufacturer of Atrazine, Syngenta, argues that the pesticide is safe, Hayes and other scientists have increasingly demonstrated a link between Atrazine and threats to public health and the environment.

Besides their rampant transmisogyny, far-right depictions of environmental issues are coded with concerns over perceived decline of white male social dominance. In this essay, I examine the role of gendered rhetoric in scientific and popular representations of this controversy. Hungary deepened its repression of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people on March 18 as the parliament passed a draconian law that will outlaw Pride .

She has worked on several interdisciplinary collaborative projects between feminist scholars and scientists including the Harvard GenderSci lab which critiques sexist science and generates feminist concepts for scientific research on sex, gender, and sexuality. These representations perpetuate transmisogyny, a term from feminist theory that describes discrimination against trans women, who are impacted by both transphobia and misogyny.

Pointing out biological and physiological changes that actually occured is not misogyny just because it reinforces distinct sex characteristics. Municipal officials in the town of Łańcut, Poland, have abolished the country’s last remaining “LGBT Ideology Free” zone, righting more than five years of political assault on . In Alex Jones Comes out of the Closet as a Gay Frog , he wore a full-body frog suit, green face paint, and pink tutu.

Most notably, American conspiracy theorist Alex Jones cited research on the effects of atrazine on frogs, which can induce spontaneous sex change or hermaphroditism, to claim that the U.S. government was "putting chemicals in the water that turn the friggin’ frogs gay" as part of a "chemical warfare operation" to increase homosexuality and. Far-right rhetoric in the United States has also featured Hayes et al.

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people and activists continued to be subjected to smear campaigns and abuse, including arbitrary arrests, threats, and physical assaults. Within hours of returning to power Monday, United States issued a stunningly broad executive order that seeks to dismantle crucial protections for .