Psychoanalysis Meets Transgender Children: The Best of Times and the Worst of Times

Diane Ehrensaft, PhD is a developmental and clinical psychologist in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is the Director of Mental Health at the Child and Adolescent Gender Center at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital, and an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at UCSF. She is engaged in research, clinical work, consultation, and writing in the area of gender diverse children and families. Presently, she is the principal investigator of a four-site NIH grant, The Gender Journey, studying gender pathways in prepubertal gender diverse children; and co-investigator of a second four-site NIH grant, the, Trans Youth Care Study, investigating the outcomes of gender affirming medical interventions in youth. Dr. Ehrensaft is also the author of Gender Born, Gender Made and The Gender Creative Child.
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