A Chief psychologist at a California children’s hospital has claimed children can identify as ‘gender minotaurs’.
Dr. Diane Ehrensaft is the director of mental health and chief psychologist at the UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital gender development center.
Her research focuses on the effects of puberty blockers and hormones on children.
First reported by Fox News, Ehrensaft has made claims that children can identify as gender hybrids, which include ‘gender minotaur’.
The Minotaur, in Greek mythology, was a creature which had the body of a man but the head of a bull.
In a list of terms published by Ehrensaft, in a paper titled The Gender Affirmative Model, she refers to different ways in which children have described themselves.
One of these included ‘gender minotaur’, which is described as being a descriptor for a child who sees themselves as one gender on top, and another on their bottom half.
Other claims made by the psychologist include what she describes as a ‘gender prius’.
This label is said to have been explained to her by a child who looked like a boy at the front, but had a long braid tied in their hair with a pink bow.
According to the paper, the child said: ‘You see – I’m a Prius, a boy in the front, a girl in the back. A hybrid.’
Other terms include a ‘gender smoothie’ which is described as a variation of being gender fluid.
One teenager described it to Ehrensaft as: ‘You take everything about gender, throw it in the blender, press the button, and you’ve got me—a gender smoothie.’
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