DES Tall Girls

From the late 1950s, organically healthy tall young girls were treated with synthetic oestrogens to stunt their growth:

at first, with diethylstilboestrol (DES) and then from the mid-1970s with ...

Then, while reading up on the DES that was given to my mother and many other women in a misguided attempt to prevent miscarriage, I stumbled upon the word Stilbestrol, a brand name for DES. I ...

I was also told not to discuss the treatment with friends or other family members, as this was a private family matter.

By A.M.

I was always one of the tallest kids in my class. From Kindergarten ...

It was hard for me to understand why I had to be subjected to all this medical interference when I was quite healthy

By I.B.

In 1983, at the age of 11, I was put on the hormone treatment to stunt ...

I wish I was a tomato. Huge amounts of money are now being spent to monitor the genetic modification of our food. People are morally outraged that humans would dare to alter a perfectly healthy ...