Diane Ehrensaft - The Gender Creative Child

See also apples

Peta, Jayme

“phase,” gender exploration described as, ref. 2

Pickert, Nils

pink boys

Pitt, Brad

possibility, ref. 2

Priuses, gender

pronouns, gender-neutral (n3)

protection, acceptance as form of

protogay children, ref. 2

prototransgender youth

psychiatric conditions, comorbid

psychiatric gender fixers, doctors as

psychiatrists, referral to

puberty, delayed, ref. 2

puberty blockers

bone mineral density and

brain development and

cross-sex hormones/hormone replacement therapy and

Ingraham, Laura, on

as medical intervention

psychological aspects, ref. 2, ref. 3, ref. 4

readiness for

surgeries and

use of

radical feminism

radio, ref. 2

Raising My Rainbow (Duron)

Rankin, Susan, ref. 2

regrets, ref. 2

reparative therapy, ref. 2, ref. 3

research studies versus experience

risk, ref. 2

Rosenthal, Stephen, ref. 2

Rudacille, Deborah

Russell, Hershel

Ryan, Caitlin, ref. 2

safety versus thriving

sameness/likeness as bonding agent

San Francisco Arts and Lectures series

San Francisco Chronicle

schools

bathrooms, gender-neutral, ref. 2

gender-expansive practices in

Gender Spectrum and

lining up in

Schools in Transition: A Guide for Supporting Transgender Students in K Schools

screens

documentaries

films

Internet and social media

radio, ref. 2

as social mirrors

television, ref. 2, ref. 3

scripting

self-labels

sensory issue, autism spectrum disorder as

sexual abuse

siblings

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

“Sissy Boy Syndrome” and the Development of Homosexuality, The (Green)

“Sisterhood Is Complicated”

slow-to-warm-up children (temperament type), ref. 2

smoothies, gender, ref. 2

snowballs, families as

social action. See streets (social action)

social constructivists, ref. 2

social cues, inability to read

social media. See Internet and social media

social mirrors, screens as

social opportunity, gender as

social transition

Solomon, Andrew, ref. 2, ref. 3

solution, gender as

Spiegel, Alix

Spoiling Childhood (Ehrensaft), ref. 2, ref. 3

Stocker, David

Stoller, Robert

streets (social action)

advances

American Psychological Association

bathrooms, gender-neutral

minorities

snowballs, families as

Transgender Law Center

written words

Stuart Little (White), ref. 2

support, parental

support networks

Supreme Court (India)

surgeries

symptom, gender as, ref. 2

television, ref. 2, ref. 3

temperament

about

behavior categories reflecting

easy children, ref. 2

as “how” of behavior

slow-to-warm-up children, ref. 2

Teslas, gender

Testa, Rylan

testosterone

See also cross-sex hormones/hormone replacement therapy

“they,” as gender-neutral pronoun (n3)

thinking outside of boxes

Thomas, Alexander

Three to Infinity (film)

thriving versus safety

time, as gender web dimension

Tootsie Roll Pops, gender

“trans,” as term

transactionalists, ref. 2

transgender children, defined

See also apples; specific topics

Transgender Law Center

translators, mental health professionals as

trauma

treatment, gender as, ref. 2, ref. 3

true gender self

Truth, Sojourner

T: The New York Times Style Magazine

Tuerk, Catherine

“Two Families Grapple with Sons’ Gender Preferences” (radio program), ref. 2

University of California, Los Angeles

University of California, San Francisco, Benioff Children’s Hospital Child and Adolescent Gender Center Clinic, ref. 2, ref. 3, ref. 4, ref. 5

Venice, Italy

Vilain, Eric

Waldron, Candace, ref. 2

Wallace, Robert

“watchful waiting” model, ref. 2

Wellesley College

“What Is a Woman?” (Goldberg)

“What Should You Do If Your Son Says He’s a Girl?” (Vilain and Bailey)

White, E. B.

Winnicott, D. W.

Witterick, Kathy, ref. 2

World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), ref. 2

written words, for social action

“Yentl the Yeshiva Boy” (Singer)

“Your Majesty, the Baby” sensibility

Zucker, Ken, ref. 2, ref. 3, ref. 4, ref. 5, ref. 6

DIANE EHRENSAFT, PHD,is a developmental and clinical psychologist who for over thirty years has worked with gender-nonconforming children and their families. Dr. Ehrensaft is the author of numerous books and articles on child development, gender, and parenting. Her previous books include Gender Born, Gender Made ; Parenting Together ; Spoiling Childhood ; Mommies, Daddies, Donors, Surrogates ; and Building a Home Within (with Toni Vaughn Heineman). Dr. Ehrensaft is an associate professor of pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco, and the attending psychologist at the UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Child and Adolescent Gender Center Clinic. She is a founding member of the Child and Adolescent Gender Center and serves as its director of mental health. She speaks in the United States and abroad on the subject of gender-nonconforming children at both community and professional conferences and is cited frequently in the media. She has appeared in The New York Times and many other media outlets and was featured in National Public Radio’s landmark 2008 two-part series on gender-nonconforming children. Dr. Ehrensaft is a founding member of A Home Within, a national project focused on the emotional needs of children and youth in foster care, and holds leadership positions with Gender Spectrum, a national organization offering education, training, and advocacy services to promote gender acceptance. She is a mother, a grandmother, and a proud member of PFLAG. Dr. Ehrensaft lives and practices in Oakland, California.

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“ The Gender Creative Child is an invaluable resource for families and practitioners wanting to understand the complexity and beauty of gender development and the value of affirmative care. I’m struck that Dr. Ehrensaft’s most revolutionary idea is also her most straightforward—if we really learn how to listen to our children, they will tell us what they need.”

“Dr. Ehrensaft has achieved the impossible: an easy-to-read, but hard-to-forget, handbook that speaks to parents, teachers, medical doctors, counselors, and policymakers alike. In an accessible and conversational manner, Ehrensaft tackles tough challenges such as how to help gender creative children who also struggle with autism; why some youth intentionally choose the middle of the gender spectrum instead of the binary; how to navigate the legal and financial barriers to cross-sex hormone treatments; and why we must analyze traditional gender-based research studies with a critical eye and the wisdom of experience. This book urges us to abandon the fantasy that gender is a simple either/or proposition, and embrace the reality that there are infinite manifestations of a person’s identity. If we allow children to blaze the trail, however, then their path to self-actualization becomes clearer. A must-have for any professional who works with youth.”