eunuched

The spectre of famine, of the plague, of war, etc., are mild and gracious symbols compared with that menacing figure, Universal Education, with which we are threatened, which has already eunuched the genius of the last five-and-twenty years of the nineteenth century, and produced a limitless abortion in that of future time.

Confessions of a Young Man 1892

I came of gay age in such a straight ghetto that I didn't know that "friends of Dorothy" referred to Dorothy Gale's charmingly eunuched male companions.

The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Gregory Maguire 2011