The Gender Creative Child, Diane Ehrensaft, PhD
The Gender Creative Child, Diane Ehrensaft, PhD
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The Gender Creative Child
Pathways for Nurturing and Supporting Children Who Live Outside Gender Boxes

Author: Diane Ehrensaft, PhD, Norman Spack, MD

Narrator: Sarah Beth Pfeifer

Unabridged: 11 hr 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 01/18/2022


Synopsis

From a leading US authority on a subject more timely than ever—an up-to-date, all-in-one resource on gender-nonconforming children and adolescents

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 The Gender Creative Child, she returns to guide parents and professionals through the rapidly changing cultural, medical, and legal landscape of gender and identity.

In this up-to-date, comprehensive resource, Dr. Ehrensaft explains the interconnected effects of biology, nurture, and culture to explore why gender can be fluid, rather than binary. As an advocate for the gender affirmative model and with the expertise she has gained over three decades of pioneering work with children and families, she encourages caregivers to listen to each child, learn their particular needs, and support their quest for a true gender self.

The Gender Creative Child unlocks the door to a gender-expansive world, revealing pathways for positive change in our schools, our communities, and the world.

About Diane Ehrensaft, PhD

Diane Ehrensaft, PhD, is a developmental and clinical psychologist. At the University of California-San Francisco, she is the cofounder and director of mental health at the Child and Adolescent Gender Center, an associate professor of pediatrics, and an attending psychologist at the Benioff Children's Hospital Child and Adolescent Gender Clinic. Her work with-and advocacy for-gender creative children has been widely covered, including by the New York Times, the Huffington Post, and NPR. She has been featured on the Los Angeles Times online, Wired online, and has appeared on Anderson, The Oprah Winfrey Show, and The Today Show.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Shannon on September 16, 2016

A critically important book to all those who support and/or love trans and gender non-conforming children and youth. It's well-written, accessible, thorough, and enlivened by combined profiles of some of the children, youth, and families whom Ehrensaft has helped to council. "The Gender Creative Chil......more

Goodreads review by Rosie on August 28, 2018

I love Diane Ehrensaft. I think she writes about gender in childhood in a meaningful yet approachable way and has done a ton of important work in supporting gender expansive children. I still think her book "Gender Born, Gender Made" is a bit better than this one but this one is really good as well.......more

Goodreads review by Scott on January 31, 2017

Super comprehensive - learned a ton in this. Skimmed over a lot of the clinical stuff and focused more on the anecdotes and basic information. Good start on research for my middle grade novel.......more

Goodreads review by Jane on May 23, 2016

not a quick read, but a thorough look at all the elements of raising or otherwise supporting a gender creative child. with chapters on gender, ways it's expressed, overlap of gender creativeness and co-occurring diagnoses, supporting parents, seeking professional help for mental health or from MD's,......more

Goodreads review by Kay on October 11, 2018

A good resource book with a lot of information .......more