Alice Dreger

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

— Alice Dreger

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

— Alice Dreger

I am led by what I find to be true, not what I find to be popular.

— Alice Dreger

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

— Alice Dreger

When all is said and done, science actually takes hard work and a willingness to sometimes find out that your most cherished…

— Alice Dreger

We don't really know where human sexual orientations come from yet. What we do know is that the evidence we have that…

— Alice Dreger

As a kid, I did some running but especially loved biking and swimming. I grew up on Long Island, and our mom…

— Alice Dreger

Ironically, when I've asked my straight friends to join me in hanging a rainbow flag, they answer, 'But someone might think we're…

— Alice Dreger

A hospital may spend several million dollars separating a pair of conjoined twins even though that separation is likely to leave them…

— Alice Dreger

We now know that sex is complicated enough that we have to admit nature doesn't draw the line for us between male…

— Alice Dreger

If we are going to have to worry all the time that we might offend some students' sensibilities, we are not going…

— Alice Dreger

You can't go into new life experiences without the understanding that yeah, you may fail, but knowing you might fail can't stop…

— Alice Dreger

I actually completely suck at being a bioethicist. What I do is history of medicine and patient advocacy. Patient advocacy is actually…

— Alice Dreger

If we have a situation where a man is particularly graceful in a sport that rewards grace - say, for example, figure…

— Alice Dreger

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…

— Alice Dreger

When I ask my medical students to describe their image of a woman who elects to birth with a midwife rather than…

— Alice Dreger

When I talk about intersex, people ask me, 'But what about the locker room?' Yes, what about the locker room? If so…

— Alice Dreger

What we should care about is health - reduction of morbidity and mortality. Too often, we instead pay attention to whether something…

— Alice Dreger

The funny thing is, when I ask people with dark skin if they would change their color, they tell me no, and…

— Alice Dreger

We say, 'You may drink at the age of 21 but not at the age of 20.' Why? Because humans like to…

— Alice Dreger

Doctors are human animals. They want to be loved, they are tribal, they instinctually favor stories over scientific evidence, they make mistakes,…

— Alice Dreger

Using medicine in the service of cosmesis is generally bad for patients, bad for doctors, and bad for democracy. The only exceptions…

— Alice Dreger

I think it is fine to have sports divided into men's and women's, just as it is fine to say a fifteen-year-old…

— Alice Dreger

Instead of constantly enhancing the norm - forever upping the ante of the 'normal' with new technologies - we should work on…

— Alice Dreger

So many times I've heard people say that the right to marry for gay and lesbian couples won't really change anything other…

— Alice Dreger

Surely, sport is not fundamentally about the safety of athletes. If it were, we'd probably have to ban professional football, right after…

— Alice Dreger

Regardless of the cultural system, social pressure to appear straight seems to be fairly intense cross-culturally. Indeed, one is inclined to wonder,…

— Alice Dreger

I do work half time as a historian of medicine at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, and I started my career…

— Alice Dreger

I could make a martyrly claim to having been the victim of childhood enslavement when I report that I started regularly cooking…

— Alice Dreger

Perhaps it is because I'm a writer trained in history that I've always assumed I would make mistakes in my drafts. Historians…

— Alice Dreger

After I dropped out of college at the age of 19, I became a mortgage broker, and when I went back to…

— Alice Dreger

Ok, here goes: I'm going to see how many people I can offend by suggesting that maybe many little gay boys, like…

— Alice Dreger

Purposefully exposing young people to increased risks of major brain problems - even death - for sport is surely even more ethically…

— Alice Dreger

Fact-checking doesn't exist primarily because some of us are liars and cheats. It exists because writers will be writers, much as they…

— Alice Dreger

A democratic medical establishment does not alter people's bodies to fit regressive social norms; it advocates for patients by demanding the social…

— Alice Dreger

After I dropped out of college at the age of 19, I became a mortgage broker, and when I went back to…

— Alice Dreger

The safety argument against steroids may be a good one, but let's be honest. It isn't the one that motivates most officials…

— Alice Dreger

I don't have the panic I used to have, meeting people who are androgynous, but when you meet someone whose identity is…

— Alice Dreger

Many medical students, like most American patients, confuse science and technology. They think that what it means to be a scientific doctor…

— Alice Dreger

My mother has told so many times the unbelievable story of how, as a toddler, I would demand raw onions and eat…

— Alice Dreger