RFK Jr. links herbicides in drinking water to gender dysphoria

Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. identified the herbicide atrazine as the chemical responsible for gender confusion among the youth, echoing the claim of InfoWars founder Alex Jones.

He shared this finding during an interview with Canadian clinical psychologist Dr. Jordan Peterson. According to the founder and general counsel of Children's Health Defense, climate change or mental health issues shouldn't be blamed for the youth's gender confusion. Chemicals in the water supply are the real culprit, he said.

"A lot of problems we see in kids – and particularly boys – is probably under-appreciated; how much of that is coming from chemical exposures, including a lot of sexual dysphorias we are seeing," RFK Jr. told Peterson. "They are swimming through a soup of toxic chemicals today and many of those are endocrine disruptors."

The presidential hopeful said the herbicide atrazine, which is used to selectively control annual grasses and broadleaf weeds before they emerge, is abundant in the drinking water supply.