August 16, 2010
“Medical treatment carries possible side effect of limiting homosexuality”
A hormonal treatment to prevent ambiguous genitalia can now be offered to women who may be carrying such infants. It’s not without health risks, but to its critics those are of small consequence compared with this notable side effect: The treatment might reduce the likelihood that a female with the condition will be homosexual. Further, it seems to increase the chances that she will have what are considered more feminine behavioral traits.
That such a treatment would ever be considered, even to prevent genital abnormalities, has outraged gay and lesbian groups, troubled some doctors and fueled bioethicists’ debate about the nature of human sexuality.
The treatment is a step toward “engineering in the womb for sexual orientation,” said Alice Dreger, a professor of clinical medical humanities and bioethics at Northwestern University and an outspoken opponent of the treatment.
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Would limited homosexuality (as in limited mobility) come to be considered differently abled? Or “special needs? You think?
“You know? I hear he can suck a mean cock, but he can’t hang a drape to save his life.”
You have one wicked sense of humour, Mr. Neece. I’m still giggling.