I stayed on at the university for my doctorate.
There was a cultural revolution going on then. When I arrived at the University of Michigan as an undergraduate in 1964, Ann Arbor was a sleepy college town. J.: How did a straight, cisgender woman become one of the leading advocates for nonbinary and transgender people?ĭiane Ehrensaft: This goes back to the mid- and late-1960s. She lives in Oakland with her husband, Jim Hawley, “a nice Jewish boy,” she says. She is the author of several books, most recently “The Gender Creative Child: Pathways for Nurturing and Supporting Children Who Live Outside Gender Boxes.” Ehrensaft, 72, is a mother of two, grandmother of one, and daughter of a 99-year-old mother her father recently passed away at 101. Developmental and clinical psychologist Diane Ehrensaft is an associate professor of pediatrics at UC San Francisco and director of mental health at the UCSF Child and Adolescent Gender Center, which provides comprehensive services to gender-nonconforming and transgender youth and their families.
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