Dr Pasterski is a Gender Specialist with more than 20 years of clinical and research experience. She earned a PhD in Behavioural Neuroendocrinology in 2002 from City, University of London, and completed a further two years of postdoctoral training in Gender Identity Assessment with the Psychoendocrine Clinic, Columbia University Medical Center and New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York. She has been a member of various multidisciplinary networks throughout Europe and within the NHS, an Affiliated Lecturer in the Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge, and is a Recognised Gender Specialist by the UK Ministry of Justice Gender Recognition Panel.