The estrogenic isoflavone compound genistein recently has been found in the effluents of sewage treatment plants and pulp mills, and the related compound equol has been detected in the runoff from agricultural fields treated with hog manure. Waterborne exposures of Japanese medaka (Oryzias latipes) to equol from soon after hatch to approximately 100 days posthatch induced gonadal intersex (i.e....

Mature medaka (Oryzias latipes) were exposed to ethinylestradiol (EE2) at measured concentrations of 32.6, 63.9, 116, 261, and 488 ng/L for 21 d under flow-through conditions. Effects on reproductive success of the fish as well as on gonadal condition and vitellogenin (VTG) induction were assessed. A significant decrease in fecundity was observed only at the highest EE2 concentration, whereas h...

R. JOneS was surprisingly relaxed and jovial considering that he had driven two hours from Bakersfield to Los Angeles to have his thirteen-month-old child examined by half a dozen doctors. no doubt he was sustained by his faith: on his T-shirt was boldly emblazoned “Got Jesus?” The examination rooms are usually crowded in the Intersex Clinic (now the Disorders of Sex Development [DSD] Clinic) a...

Abstract Background In the past several decades, conflicting discourses have coexisted in field of intersex studies, including pathologizing discourse biomedical disciplines and affirmative, subjective psychosocial people born with bodies their advocates. Intersex activists call for a positive humanistic healthcare approach that accepts protects bodily autonomy change continuing harmful, trauma...