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agesboy posted...

"I don't like 'em putting chemicals in the water that turn the freakin' frogs gay!"

hate the guy but that is the funniest shit ever to me. i wish the government WOULD make the frogs gay

What gets me is that, of all the batshit insane things that guy has said, the one that gets memed the most is the one that is sort of true. Technically it would be chemicals turning the frogs trans rather than gay, as some of the affected male frogs have testosterone suppressed to the point they become reproductively functional females.

https://news.berkeley.edu/2010/03/01/frogs/

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.