Diane Ehrensaft, PhD
Professor
Pediatrics
School of Medicine

Publications (69)

Top publication keywords:
PubertyReproductive Techniques, AssistedMental HealthHormone Replacement TherapyPsychoanalytic TherapyIndividuationPsychoanalytic TheoryGonadotropin-Releasing HormoneTransgender PersonsPsychosexual DevelopmentGender DysphoriaIdentity CrisisTranssexualismGender IdentitySexual and Gender Minorities

• Anger, Aggression, and Irritability in Transgender and Gender Diverse Youth Following Testosterone Initiation: A 12-Month Longitudinal Analysis.
  The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine 2026 Huit TZ, Whitehead J, Chan YM, Ehrensaft D, Garofalo R, Hidalgo MA, Olson-Kennedy J, Rosenthal SM, Chen D
• Scientific Integrity and Pediatric Gender Healthcare: Disputing the HHS Review.
  Sexuality Research and Social Policy 2025 G. Nic Rider, Ben C. D. Weideman, Diane Ehrensaft, Kriti Choudhary, Jennifer Jo Connor, Jamie Feldman, Michael Gendernalik, Steven A. John, Carrie Link, Leonor de Oliveira, Elizabeth Panetta, Jonathan…
• Mental and Emotional Health of Youth after 24 months of Gender-Affirming Medical Care Initiated with Pubertal Suppression.
  medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences 2025 Olson-Kennedy J, Durazo-Arvizu R, Wang L, Wong CF, Chen D, Ehrensaft D, Hidalgo MA, Chan YM, Garofalo R, Radix AE, Rosenthal SM
• Minority stress, mental health, and substance use in transgender youth: the moderating role of positive affect.
  Journal of pediatric psychology 2025 Parchem B, Berona J, Coyne CA, Moskowitz JT, Chan YM, Ehrensaft D, Garofalo R, Hidalgo MA, Olson-Kennedy J, Rosenthal SM, Tishelman AC, Chen D
• Clinicians Report Less Comfort in Provision of Medical Care to Nonbinary Transgender Youth.
  Transgender health 2025 Walch A, Lee JY, Wong JC, Deutsch M, Ehrensaft D, Okumura M, Rosenthal SM

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• Emotional Health of Transgender Youth 24 Months After Initiating Gender-Affirming Hormone Therapy.
  The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine 2025 Olson-Kennedy J, Wang L, Wong CF, Chen D, Ehrensaft D, Hidalgo MA, Tishelman AC, Chan YM, Garofalo R, Radix AE, Rosenthal SM
• Healthcare Mistreatment is Associated With Psychological Distress, Suicidality, and Substance Use Among Transgender and Nonbinary Emerging Adults.
  Emerging adulthood (Print) 2024 Bosse JD, Kantor LZ, Wang YC, Korkodilos R, Reisner SL, Ehrensaft D, Herman JL, Katz-Wise SL
• Development of a family-level intervention for families with transgender and/or nonbinary youth: Lessons and recommendations.
  Journal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43) 2024 Katz-Wise SL, Godwin EG, Medzhitova Y, Moore LBM, Parsa N, Hill A, Oparah N, Bogart LM, Rosal MC, Pullen Sansfaçon A, Ehrensaft D, Nishman MM, Austin SB
• Childhood Gender Diversity and Mental Health: Protocol for the Longitudinal, Observational Gender Journey Project.
  JMIR research protocols 2024 Hidalgo MA, Chen D, Tishelman AC, Olson-Kennedy J, Chan YM, Garofalo R, Petras H, Rosenthal SM, Ehrensaft D
• Biopsychosocial Assessments for Pubertal Suppression to Treat Adolescent Gender Dysphoria.
  Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 2024 Turban JL, Thornton J, Ehrensaft D
• 9. Predictors of Diverse Mental Health Trajectories Following 4 Years of Treatment With Gender-Affirming Hormones.
  Journal of Adolescent Health 2024 Diane Chen, Johnny Berona, Claire A. Coyne, Yee-Ming Chan, Diane Ehrensaft, Marco A. Hidalgo, Johanna Olson-Kennedy, Asa Radix, Stephen M. Rosenthal, Robert Garofalo
• Clarifying our stance on BMI and accessibility in gender-affirming surgery: a commitment to inclusive care and dialogue - a reply to Castle & Klein (2024).
  International journal of transgender health 2024 Allen LR, Adams N, Dodd C, Ehrensaft D, Fraser L, Garcia M, Giordano S, Green J, Johnson T, Penny J, Rachlin K, Veale J
• Principlism and contemporary ethical considerations for providers of transgender health care.
  International journal of transgender health 2024 Allen LR, Adams N, Ashley F, Dodd C, Ehrensaft D, Fraser L, Garcia M, Giordano S, Green J, Johnson T, Penny J, Rachlin K, Veale J
• Longitudinal Family Functioning and Mental Health in Transgender and Nonbinary Youth and Their Families.
  Journal of child and family studies 2023 Katz-Wise SL, Sarda V, Line EC, Marchwinski B, Budge SL, Godwin EG, Moore LM, Ehrensaft D, Rosal MC, Thomson KA
• Psychosocial functioning in transgender youth after 2 years of hormones.
  2023 Chen D, Berona J, Chan YM, Ehrensaft D, Garofalo R, Hidalgo MA, Rosenthal SM, Tishelman AC, Olson-Kennedy J
• Mental Health and Gender Affirmation of Black and Latine Transgender/Nonbinary Youth Compared to White Peers Prior to Hormone Initiation.
  The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine 2023 Vance SR, Chen D, Garofalo R, Glidden DV, Ehrensaft D, Hidalgo M, Tishelman A, Rosenthal SM, Chan YM, Olson-Kennedy J, Sevelius J
• A Look at COVID-19 and Transgender Youth Through a Psychoanalytic Lens.
  Psychoanalytic Psychology 2023 Diane Ehrensaft
• High Internalized Transphobia and Low Gender Identity Pride Are Associated With Depression Symptoms Among Transgender and Gender-Diverse Youth.
  The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine 2023 Conn BM, Chen D, Olson-Kennedy J, Chan YM, Ehrensaft D, Garofalo R, Rosenthal SM, Tishelman A, Hidalgo MA
• Perspective on equitable translational studies and clinical support for an unbiased inclusion of the LGBTQIA2S+community.
  Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology 2023 Goetz TG, Aghi K, Anacker C, Ehrensaft D, Eshel N, Marrocco J, Young JW, Roepke TA
• Psychosocial Functioning in Transgender Youth after 2 Years of Hormones.
  The New England journal of medicine 2023 Chen D, Berona J, Chan YM, Ehrensaft D, Garofalo R, Hidalgo MA, Rosenthal SM, Tishelman AC, Olson-Kennedy J
• COVID-19 and Transgender and Gender Expansive Children and Youth.
  Pediatric annals 2021 Ehrensaft D
• Take the T out, put the T in: Gender-affirming hormones in youth.
  Andrology 2021 Ehrensaft D, Tishelman AC
• The 2016 United States presidential election's impact on families with transgender adolescents in New England.
  Journal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43) 2021 Pletta DR, Kant JD, Ehrensaft D, MacNish M, Cahill S, Katz-Wise SL
• Sexual Assault Risk and School Facility Restrictions in Gender Minority Youth.
  2021 Diane Ehrensaft, Stephen M. Rosenthal
• Psychoanalysis Meets Transgender Children: The Best of Times and the Worst of Times.
  Psychoanalytic Perspectives 2021 Diane Ehrensaft
• Psychosocial Characteristics of Transgender Youth Seeking Gender-Affirming Medical Treatment: Baseline Findings From the Trans Youth Care Study.
  The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine 2020 Chen D, Abrams M, Clark L, Ehrensaft D, Tishelman AC, Chan YM, Garofalo R, Olson-Kennedy J, Rosenthal SM, Hidalgo MA
• Prepubertal social gender transitions.
  2020 Diane Ehrensaft, Shawn V Giammattei, Kelly Storck, Amy C Tishelman, Colton Keo-Meier
• Statement in response to calls for banning evidence-based supportive health interventions for transgender and gender diverse youth.
  International journal of transgender health 2020 Leibowitz S, Green J, Massey R, Boleware AM, Ehrensaft D, Francis W, Keo-Meier C, Olson-Kennedy A, Pardo S, Nic Rider G, Schelling E, Segovia A, Tangpricha V, Anderson E, T'Sjoen G, WPATH, USPATH, and…
• Treatment Paradigms for Prepubertal Children.
  2020 Diane Ehrensaft
• Creating the Trans Youth Research Network: A Collaborative Research Endeavor.
  Transgender health 2019 Olson-Kennedy J, Chan YM, Rosenthal S, Hidalgo MA, Chen D, Clark L, Ehrensaft D, Tishelman A, Garofalo R
• Research Review: Gender identity in youth: treatment paradigms and controversies.
  2019 Turban JL, Ehrensaft D
• ICD-11 and gender incongruence of childhood: a rethink is needed.
  The Lancet. Child & adolescent health 2019 Winter S, Ehrensaft D, Telfer M, T'Sjoen G, Koh J, Pickstone-Taylor S, Kruger A, Griffin L, Foigel M, De Cuypere G, Karasic D
• Impact of Early Medical Treatment for Transgender Youth: Protocol for the Longitudinal, Observational Trans Youth Care Study.
  JMIR research protocols 2019 Olson-Kennedy J, Chan YM, Garofalo R, Spack N, Chen D, Clark L, Ehrensaft D, Hidalgo M, Tishelman A, Rosenthal S
• Resisting the Post-Truth Era: Maintaining a Commitment to Science and Social Justice in Bioethics.
  The American journal of bioethics : AJOB 2019 Clark BA, Virani A, Ehrensaft D, Olson-Kennedy J
• Sexual Assault Risk and School Facility Restrictions in Gender Minority Youth.
  Pediatrics 2019 Ehrensaft D, Rosenthal SM
• Transition Considerations for Transgender Patients.
  Transitioning from Pediatric to Adult Care in Endocrinology 2019 Diane Ehrensaft, Colton L. Keo-Meier, Joanna Yuen
• Lessons from a Community-Based Participatory Research Study with Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Youth and their Families.
  Action research (London) 2018 Katz-Wise SL, Sansfaçon AP, Bogart LM, Rosal MC, Ehrensaft D, Goldman RE, Austin SB
• Double Helix Rainbow Kids.
  Journal of autism and developmental disorders 2018 Ehrensaft D
• Prepubertal social gender transitions: What we know; what we can learn—A view from a gender affirmative lens.
  International Journal of Transgenderism 2018 Diane Ehrensaft, Shawn V Giammattei, Kelly Storck, Amy C Tishelman, Colton Keo-Meier
• Family Functioning and Mental Health of Transgender and Gender-Nonconforming Youth in the Trans Teen and Family Narratives Project.
  Journal of sex research 2018 Katz-Wise SL, Ehrensaft D, Vetters R, Forcier M, Austin SB
• Introduction to the gender affirmative model.
  2018 Colt Keo-Meier, Diane Ehrensaft
• Where do we go from here?.
  The gender affirmative model: An interdisciplinary approach to supporting transgender and gender expansive children. 2018 Diane Ehrensaft, Colt Keo-Meier
• Research Review: Gender identity in youth: treatment paradigms and controversies.
  Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines 2017 Turban JL, Ehrensaft D
• Gender nonconforming youth: current perspectives.
  Adolescent health, medicine and therapeutics 2017 Ehrensaft D
• Initial Clinical Guidelines for Co-Occurring Autism Spectrum Disorder and Gender Dysphoria or Incongruence in Adolescents.
  Journal of clinical child and adolescent psychology : the official journal for the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, American Psychological Association, Division 53 2016 Strang JF, Meagher H, Kenworthy L, de Vries ALC, Menvielle E, Leibowitz S, Janssen A, Cohen-Kettenis P, Shumer DE, Edwards-Leeper L, Pleak RR, Spack N, Karasic DH, Schreier H, Balleur A, Tishelman A, …
• The psycho-medical case against a gender incongruence of childhood diagnosis.
  The lancet. Psychiatry 2016 Winter S, Ehrensaft D, Pickstone-Taylor S, De Cuypere G, Tando D
• Author's Response.
  Pediatrics 2015 Vance SR, Ehrensaft D, Rosenthal SM
• Psychological and medical care of gender nonconforming youth.
  Pediatrics 2014 Vance SR, Ehrensaft D, Rosenthal SM
• Found in Transition: Our Littlest Transgender People.
  Contemporary Psychoanalysis 2014 Diane Ehrensaft
• Listening and Learning from Gender-Nonconforming Children.
  The Psychoanalytic study of the child 2014 Ehrensaft D
• The Gender Affirmative Model: What We Know and What We Aim to Learn.
  Human Development 2013 Marco A. Hidalgo, Diane Ehrensaft, Amy C. Tishelman, Leslie F. Clark, Robert Garofalo, Stephen M. Rosenthal, Norman P. Spack, Johanna Olson
• “Look, Mom, I’m a Boy—Don't Tell Anyone I Was a Girl”.
  Journal of LGBT Youth 2013 Diane Ehrensaft
• Child and Adolescent Gender Center: a multidisciplinary collaboration to improve the lives of gender nonconforming children and teens.
  Pediatrics in review 2012 Sherer I, Rosenthal SM, Ehrensaft D, Baum J
• From gender identity disorder to gender identity creativity: true gender self child therapy.
  Journal of homosexuality 2012 Ehrensaft D
• BOYS WILL BE GIRLS, GIRLS WILL BE BOYS: Children Affect Parents as Parents Affect Children in Gender Nonconformity.
  Psychoanalytic Psychology 2011 Diane Ehrensaft
• “I'm a Prius”: A Child Case of a Gender/Ethnic Hybrid.
  Journal of Gay & Lesbian Mental Health 2010 Diane Ehrensaft
• Discussion: Tightening Up and Lightening Up.
  Journal of Infant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy 2009 Diane Ehrensaft
• One pill makes you boy, one pill makes you girl.
  Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies 2009 Diane Ehrensaft
• It Ain't Over Until the Fat Lady Sings: Commentary on Wherefore the Oedipus Complex in Adolescence? by Marsha H. Levy-Warren.
  Studies in Gender and Sexuality 2008 Diane Ehrensaft
• Introduction to the Special Issue on Foster Care.
  Journal of Infant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy 2008 Diane Ehrensaft
• “A Child Is Being Eaten:” Failure, Fear, Fantasy, and Repair in the Lives of Foster Children.
  Journal of Infant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy 2008 Diane Ehrensaft
• Just Molly and me, and donor makes three: lesbian motherhood in the age of assisted reproductive technology.
  Journal of lesbian studies 2008 Ehrensaft D
• When baby makes three or four or more: attachment, individuation, and identity in assisted-conception families.
  The Psychoanalytic study of the child 2008 Ehrensaft D
• The Stork Didn't Bring Me, I Came from a Dish: Psychological Experiences of Children Conceived through Assisted Reproductive Technology.
  Journal of Infant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy 2007 Diane Ehrensaft
• Raising Girlyboys: A Parent's Perspective.
  Studies in Gender and Sexuality 2007 Diane Ehrensaft
• Alternatives to the Stork Fatherhood Fantasies in Donor Insemination Families.
  Studies in Gender and Sexuality 2000 Diane Ehrensaft
• Acyclovir and disseminated varicella zoster and encephalitis.
  Annals of internal medicine 1985 Ehrensaft DV, Safani MM
• Successful treatment of subdural empyema due to Serratia marcescens.
  Drug intelligence & clinical pharmacy 1982 Safani MM, Ehrensaft DV
• Disseminated candidiasis in leukopenic dogs.
  Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine. Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine (New York, N.Y.) 1979 Ehrensaft DV, Epstein RB, Sarpel S, Andersen BR