This post is explicit. And gut-wrenching. It is about Dix Poppas, a pediatric urologist at Cornell University who routinely removes sensitive tissue from girls genitalia if he believes it is too large or "not normal." Not only are his motives completely wacked, his annual follow-up exams are disgusting and degrading, to say the absolute least. I've posted an excerpt below, as well as two links to articles about him, a few email addresses and the email I sent. Feel free to use it, if, like I was when I first read this, you are too shocked to even form a sentence.
Dix Poppas
| dpoppas@med.cornell.edu the President of Cornell University |
| president-mailbox@cornell.edu |
From Alice Dreger and Ellen Feder via Dan Savage's report "Female Genital Mutilation at Cornell University":
At annual visits after the
surgery, while a parent watches, Poppas touches the daughter’s surgically shortened clitoris with a cotton-tip applicator and/or with a “vibratory device,” and the girl is asked to report to Poppas how strongly she feels him touching her clitoris. Using the vibrator, he also touches her on her inner thigh, her labia minora, and the introitus of her vagina, asking her to report, on a scale of 0 (no sensation) to 5 (maximum), how strongly she feels the touch.... Poppas has indicated in this article and elsewhere that ideally he seeks to conduct annual exams with these girls....
Dear Dix Poppas,
You should be ashamed of yourself, you disgusting excuse for a doctor. If carving up the genitalia of 6-years olds because of your bizarre notions of what a "normal" clitoris is supposed to look like, which is influenced in part by a study that suggests larger genitalia indicates a propensity towards lesbianism, wasn't a tragedy in itself, the way you "prove" that your procedure works is morally outrageous. You are a horrible, horrible man who should not only be stripped of your license to practice medicine, but also your freedom. You should be in jail for the crimes you are committing against these girls.
You are repugnant, and I mean that sincerely,
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