Gender Cues, Babies, and the UK

As many of you may know, the University of Kentucky’s colors are blue and white. As you can see, the women’s basketball team at UK wears blue and white:

The women’s uniform in the UK cheerleading squad is also blue and white:

And yet, when I look for UK onesies:

Obviously, I can buy blue onesies for Elisha and Miriam; I have no compunctions against dressing them in blue. I’ll admit, though, that I’m a touch bothered that pink onesies are even an option.  One thing that I never understood before having children was the obsession with gender identification. Because babies pretty much all look alike, gender can only be identified by their clothing.  It is extremely common for people to assume that either Elisha or Miriam or both are boys because of the way we dress them; indeed, some family members have expressed hostility at our gender neutral clothing choices.  People don’t seem to have schemata for dealing with situations of gender ambiguity, even in relations with babies.

Even in the context, however, I find the availability of UK onesies irritating.  Sure enough, people are going to assume that your girl is a boy if you put her in a blue onesie (although I suppose you could tie a ribbon in her hair or something).  And the solution to that is… buy products that don’t actually reflect UK women’s team colors, and that seem to assume a supporting rather than a participatory role?  Nobody on campus wears pink with the UK logo; everyone wears blue.  But your girl baby needs pink, because otherwise somebody might mistake her for a baby boy, and then who knows?  She might grow up to be a lesbian or something…