SCARY doctor giving steroid to pregnant women to avoid lesbianism

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Basically an ethically inept physician is performing her own "clinical trial" without IRB approval (Institutional Review Board...required for ANY type of clinical trial/research ).  She is giving patients a steroid nick-named "dex" that has been suggested at preventing unambigious genitalia in fetuses of certain women who have Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia (apparently a condition that can cause such things in utero).  However, she's not JUST doing it for this reason.  Apparently she believes it will "cure" homosexuality and bisexuality.  It could also make these fetal females more "girly" and willing to do "girly" things like raise babies and marry husbands (because obviously someone with masculine features male or female is incapable of any of these things).  Here's a sampling of the original article:

Pediatric endocrinologist Maria New, of Mount Sinai School of Medicine and Florida International University, and her long-time collaborator, psychologist Heino F. L. Meyer-Bahlburg, of Columbia University, have been tracing evidence for the influence of prenatal androgens in sexual orientation. In a paper entitled “Sexual Orientation in Women with Classical or Non-Classical Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia as a Function of Degree of Prenatal Androgen Excess” published in 2008 in Archives of Sexual Behavior, Meyer-Bahlburg and New (with two others) gather evidence of “a dose-response relationship of androgens with sexual orientation” through a study of women with various forms of CAH.

They specifically point to reasons to believe that it is prenatal androgens that have an impact on the development of sexual orientation. The authors write, "Most women were heterosexual, but the rates of bisexual and homosexual orientation were increased above controls . . . and correlated with the degree of prenatal androgenization."

They go on to suggest that the work might offer some insight into the influence of prenatal hormones on the development of sexual orientation in general. “That this may apply also to sexual orientation in at least a subgroup of women is suggested by the fact that earlier research has repeatedly shown that about one-third of homosexual women have (modestly) increased levels of androgens.” They “conclude that the findings support a sexual-differentiation perspective involving prenatal androgens on the development of sexual orientation.”

Scary stuff!