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…

— 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

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

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

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

— 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

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

— 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

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

— 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

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

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

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

Doctors and scientists, being part of that two-sex culture, have done everything they can to try to force people who are in-between…

— 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

You know what Oprah taught me? Unless you count as changing your life having a neighborhood dad say to you every morning…

— Alice Dreger

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

— 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

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

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

— 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

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

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

— 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