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Are EDCs Blurring Issues of Gender? Ernie Hood Abstract
Endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) lie at the heart of one of toxicology’s most widely argued controversies. Most of the controversy swirls around the potential effects of low-dose environmentally relevant exposures, especially fetal and early childhood exposures, which some scientists believe could have profound, permanent impacts on subsequent development and adult outcomes. Critics of this idea maintain that thus far there is no credible evidence to suggest that low-dose exposures cause any adverse human health effects. Yet a growing body of evidence offers some indication that prenatal and childhood exposure to EDCs may contribute to a variety of abnormalities in human sexuality, gender development and behaviors, reproductive capabilities, and sex ratios.
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