Doctor Treating Women with Experimental Drug to Prevent Lesbians

Dan Savage is reporting that a doctor in Florida is treating women with an experiemental and potentially quite dangerous drug called dexamethasone or dex, in an effort to:

"prevent the births of girls who display an "abnormal" disinterest in babies, don't want to play with girls' toys or become mothers, and whose "career preferences" are deemed to "masculine."

Other scientists are conducting research into preventing congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) which can cause ambiguous genitalia in baby girls, but Maria New of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and Florida International University is reportedly taking it a step further by trying to prevent lesbianism. 

"In a previous Bioethics Forum post, Alice Dreger noted an instance of a prospective father using knowledge of the fraternal birth order effect to try to avoid having a gay son by a surrogate pregnancy. There may be other individualized instances of parents trying to ensure heterosexual children before birth. But the use of prenatal dexamethasone treatments for CAH represents, to our knowledge, the first systematic medical effort attached to a “paradigm” of attempting in utero to reduce rates of homosexuality, bisexuality, and “low maternal interest.”

Has Twilight of the Golds come true?  As Dan Savage put it:

"So no more Elena Kagans, no more Donna Shalalas, no more Martina Navratilovas, no more k.d. langs, no more Constance McMillens—because all women must grow up to suck dick, crank out babies, and do women's work. And the existence of adult women who are not interested in "becoming someone's wife" and "making babies" constitutes a medical emergency that requires women who are currently pregnant to be treated with an experimental hormone. Otherwise their daughters could grow up to, um, be nominated to sit on the Supreme Court, serve as cabinet secretaries, take 18 Grand Slam singles titles, win Grammies, or take their girlfriends to prom."

Is science trying to destroy us?