Oh, is that so?

by Sophia Siedlberg

© 21 June 2009

Alice Dreger managed to strike a rich vein the other day when she reported in the Bioethics Forum that one Dr. Poppas, a baby mutilating surgeon, had been "testing the sensitivity of the reconstructed clitoris of six year old girls with a vibrating stimulator". (Yes he did and yes, he should be banged up in prison for that.)

However, I did notice how Alice Dreger had framed it as "All these little girls" and not as she had previously done: "All these Disorders of Sex Development" or "All these intersex children". Which is interesting, and what is more interesting is how no one really took any notice of the plight of those children when she described them as intersex, etc.

They were still children.

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