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Having a child is not like taking a spouse; there is no mutual agreement entered into. It is up the parent to make the commitment.

~Alice Dreger

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Being gay is not a terrible, tragic disease that requires prevention or treatment chosen for you by your parents.

~Alice Dreger

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You want a child who never makes you anything but proud? Please. Don't bother taking on parenthood if you can't handle the fact that sometimes your child's identity won't be what you would have chosen. And if you want to prevent a child from ever suffering? Well, then don't have a child. No one is born into the world never to suffer.

~Alice Dreger

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Ok, here goes: I'm going to see how many people I can offend by suggesting that maybe many little gay boys, like many little girls, are made up of sugar and spice and everything nice.

~Alice Dreger

Topics: Boy Everything Gay Girl Goes Going Here How How Many People Like Little Little Girls Made Many Maybe Nice Offend Ok People See Spice Sugar Suggesting Up I Can

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To be perfectly honest, I follow football the way I follow television. I read about it.

~Alice Dreger

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Purposefully exposing young people to increased risks of major brain problems - even death - for sport is surely even more ethically complicated than sending young people into this same neurological danger zone as soldiers.

~Alice Dreger

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No matter how little we think anatomy should matter to one's social and political rights, surely we can't pretend biology doesn't matter in sports. Surely there's a reason we don't let adults play in the t-ball leagues, and a reason most women athletes want their own leagues.

~Alice Dreger

Topics: Adult Anatomy Athletes Biology How Leagues Little Matter Most Own Play Political Pretend Reason Rights Should Social Sports Surely Think Want Women

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Regardless of the cultural system, social pressure to appear straight seems to be fairly intense cross-culturally. Indeed, one is inclined to wonder, if being straight is just natural, why does it require quite so much policing?

~Alice Dreger

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We don't really know where human sexual orientations come from yet. What we do know is that the evidence we have that sexual orientation includes an innate component doesn't seem to point to the existence of simple 'gay genes' and 'straight genes.'

~Alice Dreger

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Many medical students, like most American patients, confuse science and technology. They think that what it means to be a scientific doctor is to bring to bear the maximum amount of technology on any given patient. And this makes them dangerous.

~Alice Dreger

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Scientist

Born: Unknown

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