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This review instead develops a comparative mechanistic framework centered on two connected mechanisms: disruption of gonadotropin-responsive steroidogenesis and oxidative stress, inflammation, and barrier dysfunction. Human biomonitoring, reproductive-tissue, fertility-clinic, and epidemiological evidence are prioritized, while experimental studies are used to resolve mechanisms that cannot be tested directly in humans. Replacement bisphenols can reproduce BPA-like estrogenic, anti-androgenic, and steroidogenic effects, but their actions are analogue-, tissue-, dose-, and time-dependent. Selected phthalates and metabolites have been shown in experimental and ex vivo studies to impair androgen synthesis through altered gonadotropin signaling, cholesterol transport, mitochondrial function, and steroidogenic enzymes. 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