Experimental drug being used prenatally to "fix" intersex genitals
http://www.feministing.com/archives/021729.html (http://www.feministing.com/archives/021729.html)
7/2/10
Basically, this drug dex is being given to mothers while pregnant who have an increased risk of giving birth to a child with CAH, an intersex condition that affects the hormone levels in the body, and can produce ambiguous looking genitalia.
This story is being talked about as a treatment to prevent lesbianism. It's not. It's a treatment to try and alter the genitals of babies with an intersex condition to make them seem more normative.
First, some intersex 101. There are many conditions which fall under the intersex umbrella, and can result in a person having any number of conditions that might get them defined as intersex. These things could affect the way their genitalia look, how their hormone levels are, what their chromosomes look like, what their fertility is like.