Diane Ehrensaft

Dr Diane Ehrensaft has devoted her career in psychology to the care of children and teens who do not identify with their biological gender. In her first book, Gender Born, Gender Made, she coined the phrase 'gender creative' for what the American Psychiatric Association at the time officially termed a 'disorder'. Now, in The Gender Creative Child, Dr Ehrensaft gives...

We are only beginning to understand gender. Is it inborn or learned? Can it be chosen—or even changed? Does it have to be one or the other? These questions may seem abstract, but for parents whose children live outside of gender "norms," they are very real. No two children who bend the "rules" of gender do so in quite the...