Diane Ehrensaft, Ph.D.

Developmental and Clinical Psychologist, Director of Mental Health Child and Adolescent Gender Center
Associate Professor of Pediatrics UCSF

Diane Ehrensaft, Ph.D. is a developmental and clinical psychologist in the San Francisco Bay Area and the Director of Mental Health and founding member of the Child and Adolescent Gender Center. She is the chief psychologist at the UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Child and Adolescent Gender Center Clinic. Diane has written Gender Born, Gender Made, The Gender Creative Child, and co-edited The Gender Affirmative Model with Colt Keo-Meier, and is a co-investigator of a 4-site NIH grant on the medical and mental health effects of puberty blockers and gender affirming hormones in youth.

Presentation(s):

• 002 - SOC and SOC8, WPATH Role, Updates from WPATH 2018

  Friday, April 12
  8:15 AM – 9:00 AM

• 006 - Making Sense Sense of Desistence, ROGD and Detransition

  Friday, April 12
  11:15 AM – 12:00 PM

• B01 - TRACK B: Assessing for Readiness / Appropriate of Blockers, Hormones and Surgery, Family Considerations

  Friday, April 12
  1:15 PM – 2:00 PM

• 014 - Youth Track: Clinical Applications: Applying Foundations to Child and Adolescent Cases

  Friday, April 12
  2:15 PM – 3:15 PM

• 017 - Youth Track: Assessments and Letters of Support

  Friday, April 12
  4:15 PM – 5:00 PM

• MS07 - Trans Youth Healthcare Capacity Building: Partnership of Department of Public Health San Francisco and University of California at San Francisco

  Sunday, April 14
  10:15 AM – 11:45 AM

• MS11 - Science versus “science”: Affirmative Care versus “rapid Onset”, “80% Desistance”, “wait and See”, and Other Transphobic Pseudoscience (CANCELED)

  Sunday, April 14
  1:45 PM – 3:15 PM

• MS13 - Fertility Issues Across the Lifespan; Decision-Making through the Lens of Family Building Options

  Sunday, April 14
  3:30 PM – 5:00 PM