Eliminating intersex babies is not a legitimate use of genetic embryo testing | Celeste Orr

It is done to reinforce the inadequate sex binary and even to police non-heterosexual, queer attractions or acts

"Designer babies" seems like a concept from a dystopian future, but they're here now: would-be parents who utilize in-vitro fertilization to conceive often also have the option of genetically testing embryos and then picking which one to implant.

Scientists can test for hundreds of things, from fatal genetic traits like Tay-Sachs and Huntington disease to non-fatal but culturally devalued embodiments like Down syndrome, deafness, blindness and intersex conditions.