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Yup you are reading that question correctly and no this is not a troll post. a Ron Desentis appointee to new Disney oversight board, Ron Peri in Florida, who is also an Orlando-based former pastor thinks the tap water holds so much estrogen that it will make you gay!

“So why are there homosexuals today? There are any number of reasons, you know, that are given. Some would say the increase in estrogen in our societies. You know, there’s estrogen in the water from birth control pills. They can’t get it out. The level of testosterone in men broadly in America has declined by 50 points in the past 10 years. You know, and so, maybe that’s a part of it.” -- Ron Peri

https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/03/politics/kfile-ron-desantis-disney-ron-peri-anti-lgbtq/index.html

and jic there's people here who think this guy is speaking any kind of sense whatsoever. news flash, he's nuts:

Conclusions
The consistently large MOEs and MOSs strongly suggest that prescribed and total estrogens that may potentially be present in drinking water in the United States are not causing adverse effects in U. S. residents, including sensitive subpopulations.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2854760/

https://news.yahoo.com/conservative-judge-could-block-nationwide-202900593.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall
Conservative judge could block nationwide abortion pill access any day now, as Dems fight for even broader access

An upcoming ruling by a conservative judge could lead to a ban on medication abortion in the U. S., but advocates for abortion healthcare filed their own lawsuit Friday to expand access.

U. S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, who was appointed by former President Donald Trump, is expected to rule on a lawsuit filed last year by anti-abortion organizations. The groups seek to force the Food and Drug Administration to withdraw its decades-old approval of mifepristone, one of the two medications used for the medical termination of pregnancies.

The lawsuit was filed by the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) — a prominent conservative legal advocacy organization designated as an extremist hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center due to its decades-long work against LGBTQ rights — on behalf of four organizations and four doctors who object to the FDA’s authorization.

“We ask the court to hold the FDA accountable for its reckless, unlawful behavior,” said Erik Baptist, a senior counsel with the ADF, an organization that was also involved in the Mississippi case that eventually led to the overturn of Roe v. Wade last year.

A ruling is expected any day now, and a decision in favor of the anti-abortion organizations could immediately block the sale of mifepristone.

But a group of Democratic attorneys general fought back Friday with a lawsuit of their own, seeking to make access to mifepristone easier.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/roseanne-barr-lashes-out-at-jimmy-kimmel-after-he-offered-compassion
Roseanne Barr Lashes Out at Jimmy Kimmel After He Offered ‘Compassion’

As much as some might like to complain about cancel culture, the topic sure seems like a boon to comedians. Just look at Roseanne Barr, who has begun promoting her Fox Nation comedy special (aptly titled “Cancel This”) with soundbites griping about her own “cancellation.” The latest object of her frustration? Jimmy Kimmel, who once called for people to treat her with more “compassion.”

In 2018, ABC fired Barr from its Roseanne revival after she posted a racist tweet about Valerie Jarrett, who served as Senior Adviser to Barack Obama during his presidency. During an appearance Tuesday on Fox News’ Outnumbered, Barr complained that she did not have ample opportunity back then to clarify that she hadn’t realized that Jarrett was black. (As she put it on her YouTube channel during the summer of 2018, “I thought the bitch was white!”)

Barr, who apologized to Jarrett before later saying she regretted doing so, initially blamed sleeping pills for her tweet. She’s since also blamed her co-star Sara Gilbert for her dismissal—as well as Michelle Obama.

During her Fox appearance Tuesday, Barr said that ABC “knew that I had made a mistake, and yet they did not allow me to go on any of their other shows and apologize for it.” She emphasized that she should have been allowed on programs hosted by celebrities who’ve had their own “more egregious” controversies. As one example, she cited ABC late-night host Jimmy Kimmel, who apologized in 2020 for his use of blackface in past comedy sketches.