Yeah, but that's so bogus (New's statement) it's more than laughable. When I was a kid I played with dolls and dressed the dog up like a baby and pushed it in the buggy, and pretended I was cooking by making mud pies with my Mom's best kitchen spoons and those little pie tins that everyone used to have. Then the next day I was helping the neighborhood boys build a treehouse, a fort out of a huge cardboard refrigerator box, frog gigging, snaring gophers, or shooting pigeons in the hayloft with a bee-bee gun. I loved frilly dotted-Swiss dresses with the can-can slips underneath and patent leather shoes with white lacy anklets, but I also liked wearing blue jeans and a plaid shirt with my favorite cowgirl boots and hat.
So, exactly WHERE do I fit on that scale of rationalization? It is NOT rational to assume that girls will want to become mothers and homemakers just because they're girls. But it is also not rational to assume that because they're girls they won't become astronauts or truck drivers without being lesbian. I don't believe any pill is going to do it either, at least not without causing other problems concurrently.
I have many friends who are not lesbians who have literally no interest in being in the kitchen, and actually had very little interest in becoming Mom's except that it was sorta expected of them once they were married. Given their real choice, I would say several would have chosen a career over being a Mom. My only daughter has no intention of being a Mom, but she is certainly not a lesbian.
On the other hand, I have a niece who was married, had two kids, then decided she was a lesbian and divorced her husband (what a shock). In court, she lost everything, including custody of her kids. I don't seriously think she wanted custody anyhow. But she was in her late 30's when all of this came about and there was never even a hint of it before she decided she wanted a divorce. Many in our family don't even know about the lesbian thing, they only know she's divorced. She is a twin, and the other twin is not feminine at all, but not lesbian. They were both tomboys because that's the way they were raised. Sports, sports, sports.
I still say it's a choice. Not many people agree with me, but that's just my gut feeling.
But this drug is still not a good idea no matter what the intention may be.