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Diane Ehrensaft, PhD.
Developmental and Clinical Psychologist

Diane Ehrensaft was born on September 25, 1946. Ehrensaft is a Developmental and Clinical Psychologist in the San Fransisco Bay Area and the Director of Mental Health and founding member of the Child and Adolescent Gender Center which is a partnership between the University of California San Fransisco and agencies to provide resources, support and advocacy for Gender-nonconforming/gender variance, gender creative and Transgender youth and their families. She is an associate professor of pediatrics at the University of California San Francisco and the chief psychological at the UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Child and Adolescent Gender Center Clinic

Research Focus
Dr. Ehrensaft’s area of research and writing focus predominantly on child-development, gender-nonconforming and transgender children and youth, parenting, parent-child relationships, LGBTQI families, and psychological issues that arise within families who are using assisted reproduction technologies.

In addition to a clinical psychologist, Dr. Ehrensaft is an accomplished author having written six books, and many articles in scholarly journals. Ehrensaft provides services to assist youth and their families who identify outside of the traditional Gender Binary both short term and long term patients. In her one book, The Gender Creative Child, Ehrensaft explores and explains why gender can be fluid, and not strictly binary.

Dr.Ehrensaft also serves on the Board of Gender Spectrum, a national organization offering educational, training and advocacy services to promote gender acceptance for the youth of all diverse genders.

Publications
Diane Ehrensaft has been referred to as a parenting expert by interviewers and media hosts. She has written several books on parenting and helping families process through a child with gender creativity/ Gender-nonconforming/gender variance She is the author of Gender Born, Gender Made:  Raising Healthy Gender-Nonconforming Children; Mommies Daddies, Donors, Surrogates, Building a Home Within (co-edited with Toni Heineman), Spoiling Childhood, and Parenting Together. Along with writing books, Dr. Ehrensaft has made many media appearances, more recently on the Anderson Cooper In addition to her books, Ehrensaft has authored more than ten published papers according to the University of California, San Fransisco website.

Charitable Organizations
Dr. Ehrensaft is a senior consultant, and founding board member of A Home Within which is a national project taking focus on the developmental needs of children in foster care. Ehrensaft often offers these children and youth psychological assistance for the entirety of their lives, free of charge.