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It's purely anecdotal, but go to a small town in Iowa and you may notice something a little unexpected - there's seemingly a larger than normal population of gay and transgender people.
Again, anecdotal, but I visit there frequently for work. My gut tells me the crop treatments are screwing with hormones...unless there's some other explanation.
Proooobbbbably that those folks finally feel remotely safe being "out"
"I visit there frequently....for work..." 😏
Sure thing, Alex.
People mock the gay frogs thing, but pesticide runoff was mucking with frog hormones, causing a genuine physical sex shift. Frogs are capable of shifting sex under specific conditions, and the chemical pollution was forcing the change. Huge ecological damage.
It was perhaps the single time alex jones was correct about anything, and if he hadnt called the frogs gay he probably wouldnt have been mocked for it.
It was making them trans, not gay.
They do that anyway if the population ratio is off by enough, but yeah they transitioned much more rapidly and more often. They also would excrete everything at once so currently male frogs would read another current male as a mate. Technically it was a grain of truth with zero nuance
I honestly wonder if being exposed to xenoestrogens in the womb is why I'm trans.
I'm not unhappy about it, just something I think about!
I grew up in Iowa, and I live in a large Ohio city now. There are barely any LGBT folks in Iowa, even per capita, it's just not normal or accepted there en mass. There was literally only one gay kid in my high school of 1500.
I move to Cleveland, then I meet more LGBT people than I have ever seen in my life, even having 4 lesbians in my workplace and one FTM.
But social media is probably the biggest driving factor behind the rise of so many LGBT people in the past decade.
You mean there was only 1 kid who was "out"
And also I believe that 80% of the population are actually "frog" sexual, meaning they change their sexuality depending on societal expectations and environmental factors.
it's also the cosmetics that contain a shitload of hormones or stuff that messes with hormones, that causes a behavioral shift in society.
Observation bias I imagine that and the more open society. There were always LGBT people, they just were in the closet when the theist were determined to murder them.