gymnosperm asked: What's the plastics/finasteride thing? Is it about anti-androgens leaching out of plastic and into food/water, or is my brain making things up?
Many common forms of plastics contain xenoestrogens which fuck people’s endocrine systems up. Like:
I have done Literally 0 Research, but that seems to be the rumor I hear, yes.
some plants (like the cereals and the legumes) are using estrogenic substances possibly as part of their natural defence against herbivore animals by controlling their male fertility.
Some of the effects are actually bad, but EDCs have been suspected of also being partially implicated in the recent increases in the number of transgender people, which is a very good thing. One compound, DES (which was not solely an environmental xenoestrogen but was specifically given to pregnant people) seems to possibly have made children extra-likely to be trans or intersex, and thus it wouldn’t be too far-fetched that other similarly acting compounds might do the same.
Finasteride a drug that’s used to treat androgenic baldness, prostate issues and cancer. Trans women, or people who are even suspecting that they might be trans women, are commonly advised (at least in the finnish underground HRT scene) to use it to prevent hair loss because the benefits can be dramatic while the harms are usually insignificant.
Insignificant for trans women, that is. Pregnant people aren’t supposed to eat finasteride. In fact, people who might be pregnant aren’t supposed to eat finasteride. In fact, people who might be pregnant aren’t even supposed to touch finasteride. Because finasteride inhibits DHT metabolism it could have similar effects to 5-alpha-reductase deficiency which is known to be a very reliable way of producing trans men (or, to be more accurate: people who would, in our conceptualization, be men who were assigned female at birth). It’s classified as a birth defect and finasteride is pregnancy class X because doctors are no-fun-allowed spoilsports having such a condition in a western society with tight-assed conformists fucking up everyone’s shit insufficient awareness of intersex people and gender diversity, and where the status of medical technology to alleviate relevant problems is YGM, is not likely to be as fun as not having such a condition.
Now the obvious conclusion for any aspiring supervillains is that finasteride is potent enough to risk fucking fetal endocrine systems up on a statistical level if pregnant people even touch it, and that there are a lot of potential routes to administer it to pregnant people as a part of a privately-run human diversification program (the exact details shall be left as an exercise to the reader because I want some barriers to entry in my field thank you very much), and thus anyone interested in diversifying human sexual dimorphism towards polymorphism would be well-advised to investigate universal finasteride supplementation as a possible high-impact intervention.
Of course, there would be some resistance, because people are unreasonably concerned about their precious bodily fluids understandably wary about being administered substances that cause “birth defects” without their consent, and finasteride is not quite as obviously useful as lithium in the drinking water, but at least it’s most likely to be less bad than lead so whoever would do such a magnificent terrible thing would still be less evil than the people responsible for the clusterfuck at Flint. (Note to self: Copenhagen interpretation of ethics makes attempting to provide finasteride-supplemented-water as a free (as in beer) alternative to lead-supplemented-water an extremely predictable PR disaster and gets your ass in trouble with both Captain Planet and Captain Cistem simultaneously. Don’t waste more time thinking about that one.)
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