Science Is Scary: A Florida Doctor Administering Prenatal Drugs To Make Baby Girls "Girly"

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Ah, Florida. The Sunshine State and land of incredibly bizarre news.

Over the past couple years, Florida has become the capital of odd-ball news stories from the incredibly silly to the frighteningly horrifying. For example, one Miami Herald headline from 2009 reads "Someone dragged a six-foot nurse shark onto the Metromover and through the streets of Miami, trying unsuccessfully to sell it for $10 before finally abandoning it in Overtown." Not to mention a man who beat his daughter to death for not being a boy or another man arrested for biking in a Batman Suit.

Now, one Florida doctor is prenatally administering drugs to assure that the babies turn out heterosexual.

A pediatrician in Florida is giving preggo patients experimental hormone treatments in the hopes of preventing their future daughters from becoming lesbians.This isn't quite what I had in mind when I suggested that more drugs should be tested on pregnant women.

The hormone, dexamethasone (also called "dex"), has not been shown to be safe for pregnant women or their unborn children. The FDA hasn't approved it for use in pregnant women, but a few researchers think it shows promise in preventing "ambiguous genitalia" in babies: genitals that are neither clearly male nor female.

Maria New and her colleagues at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine are taking it a step further, and experimenting to see if the drug can prevent lesbianism in girl babies. They also hope to "help" girls grow up to be wives and mothers. Their dream is to find a cure not only for queerness, but also for an "abnormal" disinterest in babies, marriage and "women's work".

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New also commented saying, "The challenge here is… to see what could be done to restore this baby to the normal female appearance which would be compatible with her parents presenting her as a girl, with hereventually becoming somebody's wife, and having normal sexual development, and becoming a mother. And she has all the machinery for motherhood, and therefore nothing should stop that, if we can repair her surgically and help her psychologically to continue to grow and develop as a girl."

UM WHAT?!

This is a hormone used to fix physical deformations, not program personality traits!

Where does New or anyone come off saying that women need to want to be wives and mothers?

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