May 7, 2008
by Alix Spiegel

NPR.org, May 7, 2008 · Treatment of gender identity conflicts in young children is controversial. Here, NPR talks with two psychologists who take radically different approaches to the issue — one whose treatment aims to help kids feel comfortable with their biological sex, and the other whose approach is to allow the children to live as the gender with which they most closely identify at the time.

Dr. Ken Zucker

Psychologist Ken Zucker is a gender identity specialist who works at the Center for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto, Canada. His treatment approach is to try to make kids with gender identity issues feel more comfortable with their biological sex.

Dr. Diane Ehrensaft

Psychologist Diane Ehrensaft is a gender identity specialist who works in the San Francisco Bay Area. Ehrensaft has encouraged a small subset of her patients to transition to living as the opposite gender, even at an early age.

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