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one inch
I was going to chuck this into sundries, but then some of you might miss it, and it needs to be talked about.
Over at Cornell we have a case of gender and body policing, unnecessary surgery, and stimulating 6-year-old girls with vibrators in the name of dodgy science.
Really helps to confirm my suspicion that the only good girl is one who knows how to disappear, doesn't it? And if she can't figure out the skill of it, don't worry, someone will hold her down and do it for her.
I won't ask you what this fear of big clits is, since we can all figure it out, but did you know that women with larger clitorises are also more likely to identify as gay?
Yup, that's right, one of the many HORRIFYING implications here is all about trying to erase queerness, erase the existence of people like me (and let's note the particularities of this particular act of hate, since there is also a correlation between larger penises and men being gay, but no one is cutting into these suspect little boys).
Things that will never make any queer woman less queer: hair removal, makeup, self-hatred, dresses, boyfriends, surgery, "therapy." My mother used to buy me electric razors, over and over.
All of this speaks with terrible eloquence to the suspicion I often harbour that the most inherently queer thing about me is my unwillingness to disappear.
If you don't get how all of this connects, you should probably go read Valerie's Letter again and again and again until you do.
An inch.
One inch.
Get it?
Over at Cornell we have a case of gender and body policing, unnecessary surgery, and stimulating 6-year-old girls with vibrators in the name of dodgy science.
Really helps to confirm my suspicion that the only good girl is one who knows how to disappear, doesn't it? And if she can't figure out the skill of it, don't worry, someone will hold her down and do it for her.
I won't ask you what this fear of big clits is, since we can all figure it out, but did you know that women with larger clitorises are also more likely to identify as gay?
Yup, that's right, one of the many HORRIFYING implications here is all about trying to erase queerness, erase the existence of people like me (and let's note the particularities of this particular act of hate, since there is also a correlation between larger penises and men being gay, but no one is cutting into these suspect little boys).
Things that will never make any queer woman less queer: hair removal, makeup, self-hatred, dresses, boyfriends, surgery, "therapy." My mother used to buy me electric razors, over and over.
All of this speaks with terrible eloquence to the suspicion I often harbour that the most inherently queer thing about me is my unwillingness to disappear.
If you don't get how all of this connects, you should probably go read Valerie's Letter again and again and again until you do.
An inch.
One inch.
Get it?
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Testing on children is such an ethically tricky thing, and has to be handled with such care, to begin with. I don't see how this could be seen as okay.
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Unfortunately*, providing treatment that you believe is standard of care and performing follow-up tests to ensure the outcome of that treatment does not require IRB oversight of any kind. Neither do attempts to optimize or track the care provided.
That the standard of care has been written by people delusional enough to believe that cutting up a baby's clitoris is in their best interest is a different issue. But the ethical breach was in the surgical and follow-up decisions, not in the decision to bypass IRB oversight until immediately before he wanted to publish.
*in this case it is unfortunate. In others**, rather important leaps of medical practice have been brought about by practitioners trying something just a little bit different. So it's not black and white. Oh, how I wish it were.
**most medications are allowed to be prescribed for their indicated purpose as well as any other reason for which the doctor thinks they would be effective. I'd hate to have my MD say, "well, I think this would work, but since no formal research has been done, we can't give it a try. Come back if I get funding for this study..." I'd much rather have them say, "no formal research has been done, but it seems like it could help. Can we give it a shot?"
Goodness that got long-winded. I'm done here, now to go write a letter to Cornell.