{"id":2002828,"date":"2023-08-16T17:28:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-16T21:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/medical-school-professor-says-children-can-be-gender-hybrids-like-a-gender-minotaur\/"},"modified":"2023-08-16T17:29:34","modified_gmt":"2023-08-16T21:29:34","slug":"medical-school-professor-says-children-can-be-gender-hybrids-like-a-gender-minotaur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/medical-school-professor-says-children-can-be-gender-hybrids-like-a-gender-minotaur\/","title":{"rendered":"Medical school professor suggests that children can exhibit a mix of genders, comparable to a &#8220;gender minotaur.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmedical-school-professor-says-children-can-be-gender-hybrids-like-a-gender-minotaur%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2002828&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>A Gender Revolution Led \u200dby Children<\/h2>\n<p>A professor at \u200bthe \u200dUniversity of California, San Francisco School of\u200d Medicine has sparked a\u200c fascinating discussion about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-has-signed-40-executive-orders-and-actions-since-taking-office\/\" title=\"Biden has signed 40 executive orders and actions since taking office\">gender identity<\/a>. Diane Ehrensaft,\u200c a \u2062psychologist and the director of mental health for the \u200bchild and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gone-too-far-transgender-psychologist-admits-spike-in-trans-kids-alarming-become-trendy\/\" title=\"\u2018Gone Too Far\u2019: Transgender Psychologist Admits Spike In \u2018Trans\u2019 Kids Alarming, Become \u2018Trendy\u2019\">adolescent gender center<\/a> at UCSF&#8217;s Benioff Children&#8217;s \u2062Hospital, believes that children can play a leading\u200b role in what she calls the &#8220;gender \u2064revolution.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In \u2063a \u2064recent \u200btalk, Ehrensaft outlined various ways \u200dthat &#8220;gender creative children&#8221; can \u2062express their gender. She\u200d introduced the concept of &#8220;gender \u200chybrids,&#8221; \u200bcomparing them to \u2063mythological creatures\u2064 like the minotaur. These hybrids \u2064can take the form of &#8220;gender minotaurs&#8221; \u200dor &#8220;gender Prius,&#8221; where\u200c a child identifies as both a boy and a girl. Other examples include &#8220;gender by season&#8221; or &#8220;gender by location,&#8221; where a \u2063child&#8217;s gender identity may change based on \u2062the time of year or their current location.<\/p>\n<p>Ehrensaft expressed her\u200c support for this gender revolution, stating, &#8220;I \u2064totally agree we are in the midst of a gender revolution and the children are leading it. And it&#8217;s a wonderful thing \u200cto see. And it&#8217;s \u2064also \u2062humbling\u200c to know [children] know\u200c more than\u2062 we do \u200babout\u200b this \u2063topic of\u2063 being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nebraska-department-of-educations-new-health-standards-would-teach-kindergarteners-about-gender-identity\/\" title=\"Nebraska Department of Education\u2019s New Health Standards Would Teach Kindergarteners About Gender Identity\">gender expansive<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Specialized Gender-Affirmative\u200d Care<\/h3>\n<p>Ehrensaft&#8217;s \u2062work at Benioff Children&#8217;s Hospital focuses \u200con <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/medical-school-professor-says-children-can-be-gender-hybrids-like-a-gender-minotaur\/\" title=\"Medical school professor suggests that children can exhibit a mix of genders, comparable to a \"gender minotaur.\"\">providing gender-affirmative care<\/a> for transgender and\u2064 gender-expansive\u2062 patients. She also offers assessment and psychotherapy for children, as\u2062 well\u200c as\u200b support for\u2064 parents and children \u200din families created through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-announces-major-investment-in-ivf-to-reverse-birth-rate-collapse\/\" title=\"China Announces Major Investment in IVF to Reverse Birth Rate Collapse\">assisted reproductive technology<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s worth noting \u200bthat Benioff Children&#8217;s\u200b Hospital has faced scrutiny in\u200c the past for collaborating with the San Francisco Unified School District to \u200ctrain staff on\u200d how \u2064to address the concerns of transgender\u200c students and their parents.<\/p>\n<p>The discussion around gender identity\u200b continues to evolve,\u200d and it&#8217;s important to\u200c approach it with \u200can open mind and\u200d a willingness to learn \u2063from the experiences \u2063of children. The Washington Examiner \u200dhas reached \u200cout to UCSF and Benioff Children&#8217;s Hospital \u200dfor further\u200b comment on this topic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to reports, a professor at UCSF School of Medicine stated that children can identify as &#8220;gender hybrid&#8221; and likened them to the minotaur. This concept originates from Diane Ehrensaft, a psychologist and director of mental health at UCSF&#8217;s Benioff Children&#8217;s Hospital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2002829,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2002828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2002828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2002829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2002828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2002828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2002828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}