Researchers have discovered a steroid called dexamethasone, which if given to a certain class of pregnant women can reduce the chance of the female foetus developing my congenital, life-threatening condition.
And there are a certain class in society who are totally against this.
Do you know why?
With my condition there is more of the androgen hormone than generally produced while the female foetus is growing in the womb,* which can possibly lead to the girl growing to prefer romantic relationships with other women and rejecting relationships with men.
In other words, if women take this dexamethasone it could stop foetuses developing my condition but it will also more than likely prevent another lesbian being born.
I mean we’re not talking about age appropriately teaching children that a family is a family whether the parents are opposite or same sex.
We’re not talking about teaching children that some people are born to love another lady or another man.
We’re not talking about teaching children that some people feel they are born in the wrong body and are really the other sex.
We are talking about condemning (and that is the word, strong through it may be it is apposite, if you were born with my condition you would use it too) a baby to be born with a serious life-threatening disability just in case otherwise they might be born straight.
Now, I am very sensitive to treating others with tolerance and decency and fairness. Treat those how you would want to be treated and fairs go’s for all are my philosophy. I am also very good at seeing the other chap’s point of view.
I am bisexual and think that GLBT people should have the same rights as any minority, from left-handers to mixed race people but, I am not happy about some poor kid being born saddled with my condition, with the cortisone chain around their neck, feeling out of tune with life and never feeling 100% well just so a few old dykes won’t get lonely.
*This can produce what doctors call ambiguous genitalia. Don’t want to be crude but when I was born although I was female inside, it was hard at first glance to tell what sex I was by looking at the outside. They operated to trim everything and tidy everything and make me look more like the gender I was. That’s why I have no sensations (though I can think myself to orgasm with the right person) because the surgery was done without considering I might loose sensitive nerve endings.
