Surgical interventions aimed at correcting “weird looking” genitals of infants are not even the worst method of “normalizing” the intersex. There are doctors who believe in starting treatment early in gestation to ensure that babies are born without any funky and unconventional sex organs. For this purpose, they give pregnant women steroids that are supposed to prevent their future babies from being intersex.
“But wait,” you will say. “How can anybody know if a fetus will turn into an intersex baby?”
And you’ll be right. Nobody can know. The absolute majority of fetuses that get doused with these steroids run no risk of being intersex. They are subjected to this drug for no reason at all. But they do run the risk of serious health consequences, including mental retardation and all kinds of disorders.
And as for those fetus receptacles that are not even human we call “pregnant women”, nobody cares about the danger of pumping them full of entirely unnecessary drugs for the dubious benefit of maybe catching a fetus that might have a slightly differently shaped genital area.
The only place where the long-term effects of this methodology were actually studied is Sweden. The results were so disturbing that the whole thing was banned immediately. In the US, however, the FDA keeps approving the treatment and the NIH keeps funding it in spite of overwhelming evidence that the pregnant women to whom this shit is administered are never warned about the dangers and are actually lied to egregiously.
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Crazy stuff, what percentage of expectant parents fall for this medical overservicing? The only justification must be that somebody can make a dollar from providing the service.
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Absolutely. The doctor who brags that she’s done more of these procedures than anybody else on the planet has been receiving National Institute of Health funding for this for years and years. Even though it’s been proven that she falsified paperwork and lied to patients about what was being done. Cornell kicked her out for fraud but she used her connections to get hired at another place.
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The link points to a drug called dexamethasone. According to drugs.com, this is an off-label use of the drug:
“What is dexamethasone?
Dexamethasone is a corticosteroid that prevents the release of substances in the body that cause inflammation.
Dexamethasone is used to treat many different inflammatory conditions such as allergic disorders, skin conditions, ulcerative colitis, arthritis, lupus, psoriasis, or breathing disorders.
Dexamethasone may also be used for purposes not listed in this medication guide.”
The Drugs.com page contains a warning against use when pregnant.
The brand names under which this drug are sold are Baycadron, Dexamethasone Intensol, DexPak 10 Day Taperpak, DexPak 13 DayTaperpak, DexPak 6 DayTaperpak, Dexpak Jr. Taperpak, Zema Pak 10-Day, Zema Pak 13-Day, Zema Pak 6-Day.
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Exactly! And now imagine giving the drug to healthy pregnant women with a vague hope of modifying the fetuses. This is beyond insane.
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