Opposition to genital drugs

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Opposition to genital drugs

    Andrew M Potts
Posted:
    Thursday, 15 July 2010

http://www.starobserver.com.au/news/2010/07/15/opposition-to-genital-drugs/27947

Bioethicists have criticised the use of an experimental drug to reduce the risk of girls with a congenital disease being born with an intersex condition and make them conform to sex and gender stereotypes.

Girls born with Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia (CAH) often have enlarged genitalia, and in extreme cases the labia fuses and the clitoris grows to such a size that they are mistaken for a scrotum and penis.

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However American bioethicist Dr Alice Dreger and colleagues at Northwestern University in Chicago have written to oppose the use of the drug outside clinical trials.

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Opposition to genital drugs
Author: Andrew M Potts
15 July, 2010


http://www.starobserver.com.au/news/2010/07/15/opposition-to-genital-drugs/27947


Bioethicists have criticised the use of an experimental drug to reduce the risk of girls with a congenital disease being born with an intersex condition and make them conform to sex and gender stereotypes.

Girls born with Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia (CAH) often have enlarged genitalia, and in extreme cases the labia fuses and the clitoris grows to such a size that they are mistaken for a scrotum and penis.