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A-diet-stress-model-of-lgbt's avatar

Allergies during pregnancy may also be contributing to the increase in LGBT. See research of Kathryn Lenz et al.:

....prenatal allergic inflammation had long-term consequences for the sexual differentiation process in both males and females, impacting their behavior in adulthood.

Prenatal allergen exposure in females shifted them towards a male-typical organization of synaptic patterning in the neonatal POA that endured into adulthood.

In contrast, males that were prenatally exposed to allergic inflammation showed evidence of dysmasculinization, including reductions in dendritic spine synapses in the POA as well as decreased mounting behavior and female olfactory preference in adulthood."

This dysmasculinization may reflect an inverted U shaped effect of immune signaling in the male brain, such that too little inflammatory signaling would lead to feminization of brain development, but excessive activation of the immune system in males by exogenous inflammatory insults pushes male neuroimmune activation beyond the optimal level for masculinization and thus perturbs the masculinization process.".

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6423032/

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Theo's avatar

Even though the Biden administration may say that they oppose surgeries for minors, they’re still actively promoting these surgeries for minors on the HHS website: https://opa.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/2023-08/gender-affirming-care-young-people.pdf

People should definitely be cautious about believing this statement as long as the Biden administration is refusing to act on it

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Watching the Biden administration is much like the Kremlinology of old. (Not in the actual activities, the USA isn't going to invade Hungary anytime soon)

But in figuring out which of the factions inside is winning or losing on policy goals. Levine pretty clearly was a win for the young millennial and Gen Z social media and school trained gender zealots. It's actually rather ironic that they are so into "no gatekeeping" for what are dangerous cosmetic and drug treatments.

The irony is there's no reliable evidence they work, and they're huge profit centers for massive corporations which is something they usually despise.

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