Eliminating natural variation

"This is, in fact, one of the very interesting things about biological investigators. They use the infrequent to illustrate the common. The former they call abnormal, the latter normal. Often, as is the case for [psychologist John] Money and others in the medical world, the abnormal requires management. In the examples I will discuss, management means conversion to the normal. Thus, we have a profound irony. Biologists and physicians use natural biological variation to define normality. Armed with this description, they set out to eliminate the natural variation that gave them their definitions in the first place."
— Fausto-Sterling, Anne. "How to Build a Man". in Roger N. Lancaster and Micaela di Leonardo (eds). The Gender/Sexuality Reader. New York, Routledge, 1997. (This essay blew my freakin' mind.)

This quote is topical given the call by the US Surgeons General to end "corrective" surgery on Intersex infants. The tragic results of John Money's theories about gender are notorious.