Able Quote by Alice Dreger

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…

— 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, if being…

— 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 may mean…

— 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 sexual orientation…

— Alice Dreger

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

— Alice Dreger

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

— Alice Dreger

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

— 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 than some…

— Alice Dreger

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

— Alice Dreger

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

— 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 body get…

— 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 and female,…

— Alice Dreger