(Headline USA) Democrat presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suggested during a recent interview with the Daily Wire’s Jordan B. Peterson that there could be a connection between gender dysphoria and the chemicals used in our water supply.
Referring to a study into the effects of atrazine, a common herbicide, Kennedy said a direct link between sexual dysphoria and chemicals has been documented in other species. The study exposed dozens of frogs to atrazine and found that 30 of them ended up being incapable of reproducing, and four actually began to physically resemble female frogs despite being male.
“They’re swimming through a soup of toxic chemicals today,” Kennedy argued. “If you put atrazine in a tank with frogs, it will chemically castrate and forcibly feminize the frogs in there. The male frogs will turn into fully viable females capable of producing viable eggs. If it’s doing that to frogs, there’s a lot of evidence that it’s doing it to human beings as well.”
RFK Jr. is well-known for his willingness to push the Overton window on various topics, including vaccines. As a result, he’s been labeled a conspiracy theorist by establishment organizations and even deplatformed. Earlier this month, for example, Instagram banned Kennedy’s presidential campaign from its platform.
“@instagram still hasn’t reinstated my account, which was banned years ago with more than 900k followers,” he wrote on Twitter. “To silence a major political candidate is profoundly undemocratic. Social media is the modern equivalent of the town square. How can democracy function if only some candidates have access to it?”
ABC News also censored an interview with RFK Jr. after he brought up his beliefs about vaccinations.
“We should note that during our conversation, Kennedy made false claims about the COVID-19 vaccines,” the outlet said after the interview aired. “Data shows that the COVID-19 vaccine has prevented millions of hospitalizations and deaths from the disease.”
