F. Hoyt Pilcher
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| Mother | Unknown |
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Time has fully justified the wisdom of this departure from all other established methods of treating the base and abnormal conditions so common to an imbecile mind. - [Pilcher talking in-favor of castration]
Hoyt Pilcher Castrates Boys To Prevent Procreation and Make Them Behave
While in charge of the Institution for Feeble Minded Children in Winfield, Kansas he Castrated 58 boys. And sterilized many other boys and girls.
Institution for Feeble Minded Children Defends Hoyt Pilcher For Castrating Boys
The Institution for Feeble Minded Children give the following quote about Hoyt Pilcher stating he is a hero for castrating boys, and that they should be creating a monument to him rather than removing him from his position:
A great deal has been said in the political press and medial journals of our country about the unsexing [castration] of ... boys by Superintendent Pileher, the political papers censuring, and the medical journals sustaining him. As all forward steps have brought criticism to the person who had the courage to take them, so this human act has brought criticism to Doctor Pilcher. All that would be necessary to convince those most horrified by this act of the wisdom of it, would be to have known the boys before and after the operation. Those who are now criticizing Doctor Pilcher will, in a few years, be talking of erecting a monument to his memory
A great deal has been said in the political press and medial journals of our country about the unsexing [castration] of ... boys by Superintendent Pileher, the political papers censuring, and the medical journals sustaining him. As all forward steps have brought criticism to the person who had the courage to take them, so this human act has brought criticism to Doctor Pilcher. All that would be necessary to convince those most horrified by this act of the wisdom of it, would be to have known the boys before and after the operation. Those who are now criticizing Doctor Pilcher will, in a few years, be talking of erecting a monument to his memory
Positions
Institution for Feeble Minded Children of Winfield, Kansas - Superintendent