2024 Publication  Diane Ehrensaft and Michelle Jurkiewicz:  Gender Explained: A New Understanding of Identity in a Gender Creative World, New York:  The Experiment, with forward by Dr. Stephen Rosenthal.

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This is the book I wish I’d had when my own child told me, at age three, that she wasn’t the gender I believed her to be.  If you’re scared and confused because your child is saying things about gender that you never expected to hear, this is the book for you.”

— Marlo Mack, author of
How to Be a Girl

A thorough, evenhanded illumination of a contentious topic imbued with compassion and cleareyed data.”

— Kirkus Reviews

Gender Explained” is the perfect antidote to the current state of widespread confusion about gender.  Ehrensaft and Jurkiewicz’s careful, thoughtful, and well-researched approach to the topic of gender cuts through a sea of misinformation.”

— Sabra L. Katz-Wise, Ph.D., Associate professor at Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School

In Gender Explained, Ehrensaft and Jurkiewicz have taken a hot button issue and eloquently turned down the heat.”

—Joel Baum, Director of Education at the Child and Adolescent Gender Center, UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital

Empathic and accessible, Gender Explained helped me see ‘the other side’ of the gender debate. It acknowledges fear and concern that many people face and helps us expand our view of gender.”

—Ximena Lopez, MD, pediatric endocrinologist

Gender Explained reveals how our thinking about gender has changed through the lens and voices of patients, parents, and those who care for gender creative children.”

—Norman Spack, MD endocrinologist at Boston Children’s Hospital

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Diane Ehrensaft’s publication of The Gender Creative Child: Pathways for Nurturing and Supporting Children who Live outside Gender Boxes, New York: The Experiment, 2016, with a foreword by Dr. Norman Spack.

“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.”

—Aron Janssen, MD, director and founder NYU Gender and Sexuality Service

“The Gender Creative Child should be required reading for all therapists, pediatricians, and K-12 educators and for parents whose children express their gender differently from societal expectations. Diane Ehrensaft deftly shows that many trans and gender-nonconforming children can be identified from a young age and how critical it is to provide support to them.”

—Genny Beemyn, PhD, trans educator and coauthor of The Lives of Transgender People

“Dr. Ehrensaft explains gender and children like no one can. She equips adults to understand and support gender-expansive children the way they deserve to be. This book is the newest must-have for every LGBTQ library and a must-read for every adult with a child in their life.”

—Lori Duron, author of Raising My Rainbow

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