Let's nip those ambiguous genitalia and potentially queer girls in the womb

[firecat]

Here, have your daily dose of outrage. (via supergee)

http://www.thehastingscenter.org/Bioethicsforum/Post.aspx?id=4754&blogid=140

The majority of researchers and clinicians interested in the use of prenatal “dex” focus on preventing development of ambiguous genitalia in girls with CAH. CAH results in an excess of androgens prenatally, and this can lead to a “masculinizing” of a female fetus’s genitals. One group of researchers, however, seems to be suggesting that prenatal dex also might prevent affected girls from turning out to be homosexual or bisexual.

Comments

[emceeaich]

Note to self: don't let cultural conservatives anywhere near biology. Bad things happen.

[eggcrack]

It horrifies me that this is happening. Just disgusting.

[onyxlynx]

I seem to be running out of saliva. Time to reload... (Speaking of buckets of warm spit.)

[trixtah]

I'm sorry, someone is going to have to read that for me, because my eyes rolled straight out of my head.

[foxfirefey]

It looks like the problems with this might be of a different nature.

Grrrr.

[suzanne.livejournal.com]

And again I say Grrrr