Other people have covered this ground much better than I could – what with being scientists – and so this would be a good moment to recommend Delusions of Gender by Cordelia Fine and Pink Brain, Blue Brain by Lise Eliot. But the point stands: if Huckleberry doesn’t like the colour pink, he wasn’t born with that idea in his head – somebody put it there.3 In the above-mentioned Delusions of Gender, Cordelia Fine cites a study from 2000 in which . . .
