Vernon A. Rosario II (born 1962) is an American

psychiatrist A psychiatrist is a physician who specializes in psychiatry, the branch of medicine devoted to the diagnosis, prevention, study, and treatment of mental disorders. Psychiatrists are physicians and evaluate patients to determine whether their sy ...

and

medical historian The medical history, case history, or anamnesis (from Greek: ἀνά, ''aná'', "open", and μνήσις, ''mnesis'', "memory") of a patient is information gained by a physician by asking specific questions, either to the patient or to other peo ...

who studies

human sexuality Human sexuality is the way people experience and express themselves sexually. This involves biological, psychological, physical, erotic, emotional, social, or spiritual feelings and behaviors. Because it is a broad term, which has varied ...

. His recent work has focused on

transgender A transgender (often abbreviated as trans) person is someone whose gender identity or gender expression does not correspond with their sex assigned at birth. Many transgender people experience dysphoria, which they seek to alleviate through tr ...

and

intersex Intersex people are individuals born with any of several sex characteristics including chromosome patterns, gonads, or genitals that, according to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, "do not fit typical bina ...

youth, and he has served as chair of the medical advisory board for

Intersex Society of North America The Intersex Society of North America (ISNA) was a non-profit advocacy group founded in 1993 by Cheryl Chase to end shame, secrecy, and unwanted genital surgeries.Matthews, Karen (Oct 22, 2000). Debate Grows Over Using Surgery on Infants with Amb ...

Life and career

Rosario earned undergraduate degrees in

French literature French literature () generally speaking, is literature written in the French language, particularly by citizens of France; it may also refer to literature written by people living in France who speak traditional languages of France other than Fr ...

and

biomedical engineering Biomedical engineering (BME) or medical engineering is the application of engineering principles and design concepts to medicine and biology for healthcare purposes (e.g., diagnostic or therapeutic). BME is also traditionally logical sciences ...

from

Brown University Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providenc ...

in 1986. He received his Ph.D. in the

History of Science The history of science covers the development of science from ancient times to the present. It encompasses all three major branches of science: natural, social, and formal. Science's earliest roots can be traced to Ancient Egypt and Meso ...

from

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...

in 1993, and his M.D. from the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology in 1995. Rosario completed a residency and fellowship with the

UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute The Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior is a research institute of the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). It includes a number of centers, including the "Center for Neurobehavioral Genetics", which uses DNA sequencing, g ...

in 2002. Since then he has been in private practice and been a psychiatric consultant at Gay and Lesbian Adolescent Social Services in Los Angeles. He has held a UCLA clinical teaching position since 2003, and is currently an Associate Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry. Rosario has published in English, French, and Spanish, and his books include ''Science and Homosexualities''Sengoopta C (1998). Science and Homosexualities (review). ''Bulletin of the History of Medicine.'' Volume 72, Number 1, Spring 1998 and ''The Erotic Imagination: French Histories of Perversity.''Dixon LS (1999). The Erotic Imagination: French Histories of Perversity (review). ''Bulletin of the History of Medicine.'' Volume 73, Number 2, Summer 1999 He has been a longtime activist in eliminating

homophobia Homophobia encompasses a range of negative attitude (psychology), attitudes and feelings toward homosexuality or people who are identified or perceived as being lesbian, gay or bisexual. It has been defined as contempt, prejudice, aversion, h ...

,Longcope, Kay (June 8, 1991). Group co-opts an epithet. ''

Boston Globe ''The Boston Globe'' is an American daily newspaper founded and based in Boston, Massachusetts. The newspaper has won a total of 27 Pulitzer Prizes, and has a total circulation of close to 300,000 print and digital subscribers. ''The Boston Glob ...

'' and he has criticized author

J. Michael Bailey John Michael Bailey (born July 2, 1957) is an American psychologist, behavioural geneticist, and professor at Northwestern University best known for his work on the etiology of sexual orientation. He maintains that sexual orientation is heavily ...

’s stereotypic depiction of gay men in ''

The Man Who Would Be Queen ''The Man Who Would Be Queen: The Science of Gender-Bending and Transsexualism'' is a 2003 book by the American psychologist J. Michael Bailey, published by Joseph Henry Press.Bailey, J. Michael (2003). ''The Man Who Would Be Queen: The Science ...

''.Rosario, Vernon (2003). New gene theory rests on bad science. ''Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide''; Nov/Dec2003, Vol. 10 Issue 6, p34, 3p As a child and adolescent psychiatrist, one major focus has been helping young

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people come out to their families.Kelleher, Kathleen (October 9, 2000). Birds & Bees; Wrestling With Mixed Emotions Over Child's Self-Discovery. ''

Los Angeles Times The ''Los Angeles Times'' (abbreviated as ''LA Times'') is a daily newspaper that started publishing in Los Angeles in 1881. Based in the LA-adjacent suburb of El Segundo since 2018, it is the sixth-largest newspaper by circulation in the Un ...

'' Rosario has also expressed concern for excessive specialization in psychiatry, focusing on neuroscience while ignoring other factors.Jaschik, Scott (November 21, 2004)
How to talk about liberal education (if you must).
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'' As chair of the LGBT Committee of the

Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry The Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry (GAP) is an American professional organization of psychiatrists dedicated to shaping psychiatric thinking, public programs and clinical practice in mental health. Its 29 committees meet semi-annually and ...

, he edited and published a web-based course on LGBT mental health.Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry (2007
LGBT Mental Health Syllabus
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Selected publications

*Bennett P, Rosario VA, eds. (1995). ''Solitary Pleasures: The Historical, Literary, and Artistic Discourses of Autoeroticism''. Routledge, *Rosario VA (1996). Pointy Penises, Fashion Crimes, and Hysterical Mollies: The Pederasts' Inversions, In Homosexuality in Modern France, ed. Jeffrey W. Merrick and Bryant Ragan, 146-76. New York: Oxford University Press *Rosario VA, ed. (1997). ''Science and Homosexualities.'' Routledge *Rosario VA (1997). ''The Erotic Imagination: French Histories of Perversity.'' Oxford University Press, *Rosario VA (2000). ''L'irrésistible ascension du pervers entre littérature et psychiatrie.'' Trans. Guy Le Gaufey. Editions et Publications de l’Ecole Lacanienne *Rosario VA (2002). ''Homosexuality and Science: A Guide to the Debates.'' ABC-CLIO, *Allouch J, Rosario V, Viltard M (2003). ''Litoral 33: Una Analitica Pariasitaria Raro, Muy Raro''. Buenos Aires, *Rosario VA (2004). The Biology of Gender and the Construction of Sex? ''GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies'', Volume 10, Number 2, pp. 280–287 *Rosario VA (2005). Medicine, Medicalization, and the Medical Model. ''Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender History in America'' *Rosario VA (2006). An Interview with Cheryl Chase. ''Journal of Gay and Lesbian Psychotherapy''. Volume: 10 Issue: 2 Pages: 93 - 104. *Rosario VA (2007). The History of Aphallia and the Intersexual Challenge to Sex/Gender. In ''The Blackwell Companion to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Studies'', ed. George E. Haggerty & Molly McGarry, 262-281. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing. *Rosario VA (2008). Afterword: Sex and Heredity at the Fin de Siècle. In ''Sexuality at the Fin-de-Siècle: The Makings of a "Central Problem,"'' ed. Peter Cryle & Christopher Forth, 168-190. Newark, DE, University of Delaware Press. *Rosario VA (2009). Quantum Sex: Intersex and the Molecular Deconstruction of Sex. ''GLQ'' 15.2: pp. 267–284 .

References

External links

Vernon A. Rosario faculty page
at UCLA
Vernon A. Rosario profile
at Intersex Society of North America {{DEFAULTSORT:Rosario, Vernon American psychiatrists Brown University alumni Harvard University alumni Intersex rights activists Intersex rights in the United States Living people Transgender studies academics 1962 births