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Patty and I have not been having the best luck this week with feeling well, tolerating the heat, etc. But the heat has broken and today will be different. I'm working early to finish early and yesterday pretty much taxed me out on the Internet for the week, I think. So y'all get to talk amongst yourselves while we try to be productive and have quality time before we leave on our respective trips.

Did I really see an ad on my way to my morning tasks for a film called: Dogs and Cats: The Revenge of Kitty Galore????!?!?!? Yes, apparently I did. (Warning for Patty: contains creepy hairless cat).

A new high school and some oysters may be the key to saving New York's waterways.

Italy is fighting in European court a ban on crucifixes in its classrooms.

Soon same-sex partners will be eligible for bereavement leave in NYS. How depressing is it that there needs to be a law or shit won't happen?

Meanwhile, this made me cry in a good way. Repentance and reconciliation at Pride and probably not in the way you'd expect. via pecunium.

Apparently, a doctor is treating pregnant women in Florida with hormones to prevent the possibility that their daughters with be lesbian or bisexual and/or display habits and career interests that are deemed too masculine.

In case you missed that, let me say this again: pregnant women are being treated with experimental drugs to prevent birth defects such as homosexuality and non-traditional gender roles.

I feel unsafe. The steps from the desire to prevent to the desire to eradicate what's already here are very small.

As Dan Savage notes: "Gay people have been stressing out about a day arriving when scientists developed treatments to prevent homosexuality ... well, here we are—the day appears to have arrived. Now what are we going to do about it?"

Comments

[tlatzomia.livejournal.com]

D: Even if you push aside the "no more gays!" thing(although really how can you?) for the briefest of seconds, experimentation on pregnant women is a BIG NO-NO.

[laughingacademy.livejournal.com]

And apparently so far there has been insufficient follow-up, so they can't even be sure what the side effects are! MASSIVE FAIL.

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

IKR. There seems to be little oversight and less redress on an issue where the scientists themselves agree that there needs to be lots of both.

Also, the Bioethics article mentions that use of this specific steroid is being proposed on intersex people with CAH; I hope due diligence to scientific ethics and informed consent is being done in their case. Though, considering the commentary about intersex people with CAH and their 'orientation' I'm not altogether optimistic. :/

[tlatzomia.livejournal.com]

This whole thing is really...oh my god what in bloody hell.