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This has been an issue for decades. So much that it was an Official Secret - i.e. under a D-Notice so that stories like this were illegal to publish. As revealed in Deborah Cadbury's book ["The Feminisation of Nature"](https://archive.org/details/feminizationofna0000cadb) (1998)
And while you love trashing the UK go research the wildlife in Lake Apopka, Lake Griffin and Lake Okeechobee.
e.g. Alligators with mutilated gentials were first discovered in following a major pesticide spill in 1980. The contamination caused elevated hormone levels and reproductive organ abnormalities in alligators. These chemicals were found to reduce testosterone production, effectively feminizing male alligators.
The pesticides DDT and DDE were identified as key contaminants that behave like estrogens, affecting embryonic development. These man-made estrogens were found to pass from mother alligators to their offspring through egg yolk. The timing of exposure, particularly before early reproductive development, was crucial in causing these reproductive problems.
And while you love trashing the UK go research the wildlife in Lake Apopka, Lake Griffin and Lake Okeechobee.
e.g. Alligators with mutilated gentials were first discovered in following a major pesticide spill in 1980. The contamination caused elevated hormone levels and reproductive organ abnormalities in alligators. These chemicals were found to reduce testosterone production, effectively feminizing male alligators.
The pesticides DDT and DDE were identified as key contaminants that behave like estrogens, affecting embryonic development. These man-made estrogens were found to pass from mother alligators to their offspring through egg yolk. The timing of exposure, particularly before early reproductive development, was crucial in causing these reproductive problems.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1998/02/980209154754.htm