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European clinicians again seem to be leading
:
Alice Dreger, “Gender Identity Disorder in Childhood: Inconclusive Advice to Parents,”
Hastings Center Report
39, no. 1 (Jan.–Feb. 2009): 26–29.

“pink boys” and “blue girls”
:
See Alice Dreger, “Pink Boys: What’s the Best Way to Raise Children Who Might Have Gender Identity Issues?,”
Pacific Standard
(July 18, 2013), at http://www.psmag.com/culture/pink-boys-gender-identity-disorder-62782/.

among transgender activists
:
Zinnea Jones, “100-Plus Trans Women Stand Against Calpernia Addams and Andrea James: An Open Letter,”
Huffington Post
(April 14, 2014), www.huffingtonpost.com/zinnia-jones/calpernia-addams-andrea-james_b_5146415.html.

groundbreaking book
:
Anne A. Lawrence,
Men Trapped in Men’s Bodies: Narratives of Autogynephilic Transsexualism
(New York: Springer, 2013).

made safer and better
:
See, for example, Emily Newfield et al., “Female-to-Male Transgender Quality of Life,”
Quality of Life Research
15, no. 9 (Nov. 2006): 1447–57; Mohammad Hassan Murad et al., “Hormonal Therapy and Sex Reassignment: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Quality of Life and Psychosocial Outcomes,”
Clinical Endocrinology
72, no. 2 (Feb. 2010): 214–31; Tiffany A. Ainsworth and Jeffrey H. Spiegel, “Quality of Life of Individuals with and without Facial Feminization Surgery or Gender Reassignment Surgery,”
Quality of Life Research
19, no. 7 (Sept. 2010): 1019–24; and Anne A. Lawrence, “Factors Associated with Satisfaction or Regret Following Male-to-Female Sex Reassignment Surgery,”
Archives of Sexual Behavior
32, no. 4 (Aug. 2003): 299–315. See also Ray Blanchard, “The Case for Publicly Funded Transsexual Surgery,”
Psychiatry Rounds
4, no. 2 (Apr. 2000), 4–6, http://individual.utoronto.ca/james_cantor/index_files/Blanchard2000.pdf.

Noble Savages
:
Napoleon Chagnon,
Noble Savages: My Life Among Two Dangerous Tribes—the Yanomam
ö
and the Anthropologists
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2013).

Washington Post
:
Sebastiao Salgado, “The Yanomami: An Isolated Yet Imperiled Amazon Tribe,”
The Washington Post
, July 25, 2014, at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/world/yanomami/.

ended up resigning
:
David Cyranoski, “Controversial Bioethicist Quits Stem-Cell Company,”
Nature
blog, Mar. 1, 2012, www.nature.com/news/controversial-bioethicist-quits-stem-cell-company-1.10151, doi:10.1038/nature.2012.10151.

had mysteriously died
:
Jiyeon Lee, “South Korean Company Cleared in Deaths Following Stem Cell Therapy,” CNN, Dec. 14, 2010, www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/12/14/south.korea.stem.cell.

investigation by the FDA
:
See the warning letter from FDA to Celltex Therapeutics Corporation, Sept. 24, 2012, www.fda.gov/ICECI/EnforcementActions/WarningLetters/2012/ucm323853.htm.

Summer herself resigned
:
See Christian Munthe, “Further on What’s Cookin’ at AJOB and Bioethics.net,”
Philosophical Comment
blog Sept. 16, 2012, http://philosophicalcomment.blogspot.com/2012/09/further-on-whats-cookin-at-ajob-and.html.

AJOB
had essentially been forced to publish
:
William Heisel, “Ethics Journal Corrects Record, Reveals Conflicts of Interest,”
Reporting on Health,
Aug. 15, 2012, www.reportingonhealth.org/2012/08/14/ethics-journal-corrects-record-reveals-conflicts-interest.

One recent laboratory study
:
Marine Poulain et al., “Dexamethasone Induces Germ Cell Apoptosis in the Human Fetal Ovary,”
Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism
97, no. 10 (Oct. 2012): e1890–97.

study from Finland
:
Natasha Khalife et al., “Prenatal Glucocorticoid Treatment and Later Mental Health in Children and Adolescents,”
PLOS One
8, no. 11 (Nov. 2013): e80194.

Theresa Defino
:
Theresa Defino, “Big Drop in OHRP Letters, Open Cases Raise Questions of Agency Commitment,”
Report on Research Compliance
8, no. 3 (Mar. 2011): 1–3, www.reportonresearchcompliance.com/rrc0311_reprint.pdf; and Theresa Defino, “‘SUPPORT’ Backlash Prompts Meeting, Guidance as Debate Moves Beyond OHRP” and “HHS Asked Oversight Agency, NIH to ‘Align’ About Disputed Study,”
Report on Research Compliance
, vol. 10, no. 7 (July 2013): 1–6.

only one investigation
:
Theresa Defino, “With Just One Investigation in 2013, OHRP Seems ‘Invisible’ After SUPPORT Dust-Up,”
Report on Research Compliance,
May 2014, www.reportonresearchcompliance.com/rrc-reprint-0514.pdf.

Kari Christianson
:
quoted in Alice Dreger, “IVF on Steroids: The Dangerous Off-Label Use of ‘Dex’ During Pregnancy,”
The Atlantic,
Jan. 16, 2013, www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/01/ivf-on-steroids-the-dangerous-off-label-use-of-dex-during-pregnancy/267187.

the Nazis
:
I will forever be grateful to Ellen Feder for our long discussions of Hannah Arendt during the years we lived together with dex.

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281
refer to endnotes.

activism,
186
,
188
–
89
,
219
,
260
,
275

evidence-based,
257

intersex rights,
6
–
8
,
26
–
36
,
38
,
40
–
52
,
55
,
73
,
264

medical,
6

patient,
7
–
8
,
38
,
52
,
218
,
267

pro-life,
2

sexual,
6
–
11

social,
257

transgender rights,
9
,
62
,
63
,
65
,
72
,
73
,
81
,
86
–
88
,
95
,
101
,
127
–
29
,
131
–
32
,
266
–
68
,
322

truth vs.,
136
–
39
,
141
,
153
,
183
,
262

Adams, John,
16

adrenal glands,
191
–
92
,
193
,
223
–
24

Advocate,
105

Age of Gonads,
25
,
28
,
283

AIDS,
186

treatment of,
137

AJOB, see American Journal of Bioethics

AJOB—Primary Research,
247

Alice in Genderland
(Novic),
61

alien abductions,
1
,
108

American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP),
203
–
4
,
210
,
215

Urology Section of,
46
–
48

American Anthropology Association (AAA),
108
,
142
,
143
–
44
,
151
,
162
–
64
,
167
,
174
–
76
,
183
–
85

El Dorado Task Force of,
143
,
145
,
150
,
175
–
76
,
178
,
271
,
299

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS),
114
,
150

Committee on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility of,
114

American Journal of Bioethics
(
AJOB)
,
216
–
17
,
219
–
20
,
227
,
229
,
246
–
47
,
249
,
272
–
74

American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology,
197
–
98

American Museum of Natural History,
4

American Philosophical Society (APS),
143
–
44
,
148
,
172
,
174
,
261

American Psychological Association (APA),
106
,
110
,
112
–
14
,
133

American Society of Human Genetics,
143

Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome Support Group,
33

androgens,
187
,
192
–
94
,
225
,
263

see also
congenital adrenal hyperplasia

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences,
225

anthropology,
11
,
97
,
108
,
120
,
142
,
147
–
48
,
159
,
162
,
165
–
66

cultural,
140
–
41

Archives of Sexual Behavior,
103
,
106
,
127

Aron (author’s husband);
see
Sousa, Aron

As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl
(Colapinto),
36
–
37

astronomy,
12
,
14
,
16
,
261

Atlantic,
252
–
53

Atomic Energy Commission (AEC),
144
,
157

autogynephilia,
59
–
61
,
63
,
66
–
67
,
76
–
77
,
79
–
80
,
82
–
85
,
90
,
94
,
100
–
101
,
268
–
69
,
290

definition of,
59

“Bad Vibrations” (Dreger and Feder),
222
–
23

Bailey, Deb,
98
–
99

Bailey, Drew,
72
–
73
,
108
,
115
–
17
,
271

Bailey, J. Michael,
9
–
10
,
53
–
86
,
149
,
161
,
180
,
186
,
227
,
230

academic career of,
54
–
55
,
68
,
79
–
82
,
93

character and personality of,
70
–
72
,
83
,
270

children of,
72
–
73
,
88
,
98
–
99
,
115
–
17
,
128
–
29

criticism and ethics charges against,
62
,
65
–
70
,
72
–
73
,
75
,
77
–
79
,
81
–
100
,
104
–
5
,
127
–
30
,
136
,
137
,
142
,
185
,
267
–
68

Dreger’s interviews with,
70
–
72
,
89
,
107
,
129
,
179
,
183
,
214
,
270

Human Sexuality class of,
80
,
93
,
270
–
71
,
291

publications of,
55
–
56
,
60
–
64
,
67
–
72
,
74
–
76
,
79
,
81
–
83
,
85
–
89
,
98
,
106
,
288

Bailey, Kate,
72
–
73

Baskin, Larry (Laurence),
47

Bauserman, Robert,
110
–
11

Baylor College of Medicine,
214
,
246

Beatty, John,
144

Beauvoir, Simone de,
65

Beck, Max,
34

Beeman, Jennifer,
125

Bible,
3
,
138

Bijani, Ladan and Laleh,
42

Bill of Rights,
3

bioethics,
206
,
211
,
214
,
216
–
20
,
264
,
272

Bioethics Forum,
222
,
252

biological determinism,
231

biology,
4
,
60
,
61
,
191

evolutionary,
123
,
153

bisexuality,
58
,
61
,
104
,
269

Blanchard, Ray,
56
–
59
,
62
–
63
,
65
–
68
,
76
–
77
,
82
,
88
,
101
–
4
,
106
,
267
–
68

taxonomy of,
63
,
65
–
66
,
90
,
94
,
96
,
102
,
268

“Blog I Write in Fear, The” (Dreger),
73

bodies,
26
,
267

autopsy and dissection of,
12
,
22
,
23
,
24

Bono, Chaz,
9

Boston Herald,
125

brain,
139
,
229

adverse effects on,
190
,
203

development of,
187
,
190
,
192
–
93
,
203
,
305

functioning of,
250
–
51

gender identity and,
54
,
55
,
225
,
266
,
268

hormonal effects on,
269

brands (university),
258

Bray, Francesca,
178

Brazil,
140
,
159
,
161

Chamber of Deputies of,
271
–
72

Brecht, Bertolt,
15

Brody, Howard,
39

Brownmiller, Susan,
119
–
20
,
125

Bruno, Giordano,
15

Bush, George W.,
109

California, University of:

at Davis (UCD) (Rape Prevention Program),
120
,
125

at Santa Barbara (UCSB),
148
,
150
,
161
,
178

Carey, Benedict,
104

Celltex,
272

censorship,
130
,
175

Centerwall, Brandon,
167
–
71

Centerwall, Willard “Bill,”
167
–
71

Centre for Addiction and Mental Health,
56

Chagnon, Carlene,
146
,
148
–
49
,
172
–
73
,
179
,
184

Chagnon, Napoleon,
108
,
139
–
52
,
178
–
81
,
186
,
230

academic career of,
143
,
148
,
178
,
271

character and personality of,
141
,
145
,
146
,
148
,
150
,
152
,
167
,
178
,
183
–
84

children of,
172
–
73

criticisms of,
139
,
140
–
46
,
147
–
49
,
151
–
52
,
158
–
67
,
177
–
78
,
271
,
301

Dreger’s interviews with,
146
–
52
,
163
–
64
,
179
–
81
,
183
–
84
,
271

Margaret Mead and,
151
–
52
,
153