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Doctor Experiments With Steroids Intended to Suppress Lesbian Urges

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Photo of Dexamethasone Bottle

Endocrinologist Dr. Maria New is peddling the steroid dexamethasone to pregnant women as a means of keeping the genitalia of female babies from looking male. Apparently New is also experimenting with the drug’s “potential to prevent girls from developing same-sex attractions; ‘abnormal’ lack of interest in dolls, babies, and traditional mommy-ing; and ‘masculine’ career interests.” Damn, that’s a lot of pressure to put on one little pill … and a lot of idiocy in the research design behind it.

From Change.org:

Prenatal “dex” is used by Dr. New to prevent the development of androgynous or masculine-looking genitalia in girls with Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia (CAH), which is caused by an overproduction of androgens. This is an already controversial practice and has raised ethics questions: as Time magazine discusses, dex carries significant unknown dangers and doesn’t address the underlying disorder, which can pose serious health problems in both boys and girls.

Yet Dr. New, instead of dialing back and worrying about the potential harm that she is doing, sees an opportunity to take that research further and find a way to make sure we only reproduce straight stay-at-home moms. She believes her research demonstrates a connection between excess production of androgens and girls who are queer or exhibit “masculine behavior” in “childhood play, peer association, career and leisure time preferences.” So Dr. Maria New is essentially saying that things like, oh I don’t know, wanting to be a scientist, are “abnormalities.”

Wow. I cannot believe that this is legal. So if someone’s daughter is into playing trucks, prefers to play with boys over girls, and wants to be a trash collector, we should start laying on the dex? Because, well, screwing around with physiological functions like androgen production to potentially change the entire make-up of a child makes so much sense.

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Men (Allegedly) Have More Willpower Than Women

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weight-women-choice-main_fullThe recently-released American Psychological Association’s newest publication states that women are far likelier than men to admit to the fact that they lack the necessary willpower to overcome certain obstacles.

Say, like, chocolate-binging.

This could ring true.

I, who am a self-proclaimed “disgusting smoker,” have not tried many times to quit smoking.  Why?  I like to claim that it’s because I’m just “not ready” to kick the butt habit, but in all reality, I just don’t want to accept the fact that I have no willpower to do so.

My father, who is rounding out on fifty-nine years old this Spring, has smoked intermittently throughout the course of his life.  I can recall several times where he’d quit for three, six and nine-year periods only to return (for some inane reason) to the deadly — and smelly — habit.  He claimed that he was not physically addicted to the cigarettes and their nicotine, as many smokers claim to suffer.  He claimed that it was more of a psychological habit, that of an “I’ve got an extra five minutes, I’m going to go and have a cigarette” brand of addiction.  My father is a habitual smoker, one of customary and social traits.

I also like to consider myself a habitual smoker rather than that of the type that feel they “need” a cigarette, rather than “want” one.  Or so my denial tells me.

Bullshit and self-delusion aside, and although my father has “quit” on many occasions, it proves the point — in my case, at any rate — that men generally have more willpower than women to make the necessary adjustments to improve their lives.

Even if it’s just for a little while.



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