Diane Ehrensaft

Diane Ehrensaft, PhD, is a developmental and clinical psychologist, the author of The Gender Creative Child and Gender Born, Gender Made, and coauthor, with Michelle Jurkiewicz, of Gender Explained. At the University of California, San Francisco, she is the cofounder and director of mental health at the Child and Adolescent Gender Center and an associate professor of pediatrics. She has been featured on the Los Angeles Times online and WIRED online and has appeared on Anderson Live, The Oprah Winfrey Show, and the Today Show.

Gender Born, Gender Made
Raising Healthy Gender-Nonconforming Children
by Diane Ehrensaft, Edgardo Menvielle
Paperback | $16.95 US / $21.95 CAN

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 … Continue reading →

The Gender Creative Child
Pathways for Nurturing and Supporting Children Who Live Outside Gender Boxes
by Diane Ehrensaft
Paperback | $15.95 US / $20.95 CAN

In her groundbreaking first book, Gender Born, Gender Made, Dr. Diane Ehrensaft coined the term gender creative to describe children whose unique gender expression or sense of identity is not defined by a checkbox on their birth certificate. Now, with … Continue reading →

Gender Explained
A New Understanding of Identity in a Gender Creative World
by Diane Ehrensaft, Michelle Jurkiewicz
Hardcover | $28.95 US / $37.50 CAN

Gender as we used to know it is being upended, and no more dramatically than in the hands of the youngest generation—from children aged two to young adults just old enough to vote. There has been an explosion in the … Continue reading →