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In an alarming development, male tadpoles, when exposed to pollutants that either are or resemble estrogen, frequently grow up to become female frogs. Apparently, the transformation is occurring with such frequency that it partly accounts for the dramatic decrease scientists have recorded in the frog population.

On a contentious note, female frogs, having observed the proclivity, are apparently quite incensed that males would presume to encroach on their sexual bailiwick. Adding to the concern about the decline in frog populations, the females are threatening to stop having sex with the remaining males.

There is only one difficulty with the frog's feminist movement. The females are having a hard time deciding which of them are authentic females and which, in a former incarnation, were males. Until the lady frogs develop a reliable way to determine their own origin, it appears that only intuition can guide those females who wish to proceed without knowing for certain what side of the female faction they belong to.

Since very few are eager to deny having sex with frogs they were at one time identical to in terms of sex, the movement seems unlikely to gain as wide a following as it might.