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Scientific illiteracy. People think phytoestrogen is the same as human estrogen.
The thing that makes me giggle is that many animal products, particularly breast milk, do have estrogen in them. Not in particularly significant quantities though but it's hilarious.
Which is even more hilarious when you find out there are body builders out there who buy breast milk for their gains.
All milk is breast milk. You mean human breast milk.
What's crazy to me is that people are so weirded out by the thought of a grown up consuming human breast milk all the while cow, goat, sheep, camel etc are considered nOrMaL for adult human consumption
I wouldn't consider a cows udders to be breasts.
They are functionally the same.
I'm a trans woman and I recall this myth when I first learned abt trans stuff back in '06 or so. It was widely believed and shared in trans spaces that phytoestrogen could help marginally before getting access to human estrogen. Sites like Laura's Playground (one of the largest online trans resources at the time) were filled with junk like this, along with a bunch of heteronormative and gender-essentialist takes that were super damaging. I'm glad resources are better and more prevalent now.
That was a long winded way of saying that I'm pretty sure a chunk of the culture war bs regarding soy ("soyboys") came out of these pseudoscientific claims on trans forums, mixed with a dose of racism (wrt asian cultures that use soy in cooking).