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According to Jo B. Paoletti and Carol Kregloh Dressing the Part, (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989). In the United States: The current pink for girls and blue for boys wasn't uniform until the 1950's.
News Note
If you like the color note on the little one's garments, use pink for the boy and blue for the girl, if you are a follower of convention. The Sunday Sentinal, March 29, 1914.
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There has been a great diversity of opinion on the subject, but the generally accepted rule is pink for the boy and blue for the girl. The reason is that pink being a more decided and stronger color is more suitable for the boy, while blue, which is more delicate and dainty, is prettier for the girl. Ladies Home Journal, June, 1918
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July 2006
Peregrine Charities Announces Grant Recipients Focusing on Rare, Underfunded, or ''Orphan'' Diseases
First Transgender Association Established in Africa
John Money died on July 10th. Read comments here:
June 2006
Pride kicks off with gusto (Canada)
Family’s agony over child’s sex (Ambiguous Genitalia)
PerkinElmer to Expand Neonatal Screening Program in Israel; Selected by Chaim Sheba Medical Center to create a comprehensive newborn screening program (CAH)
Dobbs: Gay marriage amendment sheer nonsense (I happen to agree)
Kentucky Equality Association Condemns the Federal Marriage Amendment and Expresses Outrage Over Comments Made by U.S. Representative Davis
Older Men's Sperm Raise Risk Of Genetic Problems In Offspring (Klinefelter syndrome, Turner syndrome)
Spain to permit legal gender switch without surgery (there are conditions)
Methodist panel passes nine pro-gay measures. (Unconditional acceptance means just that, seems some are getting the message)
Casting fear aside, he told his story. (Education is the key)
Chemical in Plastics Is Tied to Prostate Cancer. Bisphenol A, found in baby bottles and microwave cookware, permanently altered genes in newborn lab rats, a study finds.
May 2006
Authorities seek answers in mass fish deaths (fish with intersex conditions)
Local endo discusses transitioning while young (Boston, MA)
Gender Identity: What Does This Have to do With Homosexuality? (healing comes to different people in different ways)
Gender disparity in lung cancer may hold clues. Estrogen a top suspect in why the disease acts differently in women
Lab-Grown Replacement Penis in Future? Success in Animals Could Mean Treatment Some Day for Human Injuries and Birth Defects also see: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,196685,00.html
In vitro and in vivo studies on biodegradable matrices for autotransplantation. From the Department of Surgical Science Clinic for Reconstructive Plastic Surgery Karolinska Institutet Stockholm, Sweden
Androgen Decline of Non-Obstructive Azoospermic Patients After Microdissection Testicular Sperm Extraction (Klinefelter's syndrome)
Varicocele, Surgical Varicocelectomy (hypospadias)
Baby Gender Tests Not Always Accurate (ambiguous genitalia)
Transsexual Frogs (older news but just passed to us and still applies)
European Society for Paedaitric Urology (hypospadias)
Baby Gender Tests Not Always Accurate (ambiguous genitalia)
Of Penises and Pesticides (hypospadias)
April 2006
UK Lack of oxygen proves a gender bender. Fish starved of air more likely to turn into boys.
UK Sex-change Doc For The Chop? Psychiatrist Dr Russell Reid
Australia Support grows for same sex civil unions
PerkinElmer Chosen by Russian Ministry of Health as Primary Supplier for Expanded Newborn Screening Programs (CAH Screening)
Transsexual wins pension rights bid The EU's highest court said in Brussels that "the right not be discriminated against on grounds of sex is one of the fundamental human rights".
FORGE Conference Community Organizing Meeting -- May 7, 2006 Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Riverkeeper Fighting to Preserve Waterways (intersex fish)
A toxic life We're polluted from head to toe and though scientists can now measure minute amounts of chemicals in our bodies, no one knows the long-term health effects
Australia Support grows for same sex civil unions
Decorated Air Force nurse, barred over lesbianism, sues (who will be next)
Listen to Sunday Salon Imagine being one of several dozen women incarcerated with thousands of men
What should I call my baby Sreya or Rohan? (birth of an intersexed child)
Marriage plan goes without signature; Proposed amendment moves on, but it's missing the governor's name
Kansas, Transgender symposium this week
Washington State, Sexual human rights to be discussed, Sunday 23 April
Transgender teen's life as a TV movie, the life of Gwen Araujo
Handout Urges Showing Respect, Courtesy Without Surrendering Convictions
A girl in theory, a boy inside; The Age - Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
(hypospadias or epispadias and testicular size)
Pollution: Where have all the baby boys gone?
March 2006
Update on Virginia Fish Kill Task Force Investigation (causes of intersexualism)
Girls are pink and boys are blue? The term "intersex' describes those individuals who have unusual sex chromosomes, external genitals and internal reproductive systems that fit neither the male nor the female standard.
Australia Census Caters for Intersex & Androgynous People (but still allocates male or female)
Two X Copies Beat one Y (mosaicism)
Genetic Syndrome Support Group meeting planned (Klinefelter's, Fragile X)
'X' Factor Boosts Women's Health, Longevity (mosaicism)
Australia New Tests for Babies Offer Early Diagnosis (CAH)
Stop gay adoptions, agency told (Presumably Catholic Charities would oppose adoption by a transgender parent
also, but I do not know of any statistics on this. Meryl)
CA Local students ask council to limit pesticides (more hermaphrodite frogs)
Public schools, primary care: No longer charged only with treating cuts and scrapes, school nurses often are now kids' main health-care source (CAH)
Trans Mission: Can a 6-year-old make up his mind about being a her? Parents at a recent conference say "yes."
Guardian Covers Transgender Employment and Incarceration Issues
Vermont Civil Union Rejected by Virginia Judge (waiting to see what happens to the same sex couples married in Virginia)
Learn before you argue. I would like to thank and criticize the reader who wrote in about intersex.
Malaysia Chromosomes gone awry (Turner’s, Klinefelter’s syndrome)
Life in hell, In California prisons, an unconventional gender identity can be like an added sentence
The Gender Public Advocacy Coalition announced keynote speaker Sylvia Guerrero for its 2006 GenderYOUTH Leadership Summit at the True Reformer Building in Washington, D.C., May 18-20.
Trans Mission: Can a 6-year-old make up his mind about being a her? Parents at a recent conference say "yes."
HMC paediatric surgeries on par with West (intersex re-constructive surgery, ambiguous genitalia)
Australia Intersex people recognised by ABS
February 2006
Drinking water gets a drug test (intersex bass)
Hormones and headaches. Estrogen shifts may be one cause of migraines, so keep a diary of "triggers" to minimize suffering.
Va. attorney general says gay protections are unconstitutional Kaine 'appalled' by non-binding opinion
'There was no way I was ever a man' A Wichita resident has begun a new life as a woman
A Couple Undergoes A Sex Change Born In The Wrong Body
Bill targets gay adoption (References to trans) Critics of conservatives' move say it's unconstitutional
Shannon Minter has just won $100,000 (Thank you for your hard work)
January 2006
Point Foundation Announces Scholarships (for LGBTI students)
Godsey gender not a big issue at Bates (as it should be)
Life after Gwen (Sylvia Guerrero's feelings)
Secretary of State worried about Real ID Act Law could increase complications for trans individuals
UK Sex Op Turned Me Into A Girl At Just 17 Britain's youngest ever transsexual tells how NHS ended years of torment
If your suntan oil can change the sex of fish ... If your suntan oil can change the sex of fish, what can do it to
you? The stuff is not only on our skin: it's in our tap water and lunches .too
News in Spanish language press:
A mother's agony is laid bare when she discovers her only son believes he is a girl trapped in a male body.
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