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Vernon A. Rosario II (born 1962) is an American
psychiatrist A psychiatrist is a physician who specializes in psychiatry. Psychiatrists are physicians who evaluate patients to determine whether their symptoms are the result of a physical illness, a combination of physical and mental ailments or strictly ...
and medical historian 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 shortened to trans) person has a gender identity different from that typically associated with the sex they were sex assignment, assigned at birth. The opposite of ''transgender'' is ''cisgender'', which describes perso ...
and
intersex Intersex people are those 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 binar ...
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 (activist), Cheryl Chase to end shame, secrecy, and unnecessary genital surgeries on intersex people.Matthews, Karen (Oct 22, 2000). Debat ...
.


Life and career

Rosario earned undergraduate degrees in
French literature French literature () generally speaking, is literature written in the French language, particularly by French people, French citizens; it may also refer to literature written by people living in France who speak traditional languages of Franc ...
and
biomedical engineering Biomedical engineering (BME) or medical engineering is the application of engineering principles and design concepts to medicine and biology for healthcare applications (e.g., diagnostic or therapeutic purposes). BME also integrates the logica ...
from
Brown University Brown University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. It is the List of colonial colleges, seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the US, founded in 1764 as the ' ...
in 1986. He received his Ph.D. in the
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from
Harvard University Harvard University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1636 and named for its first benefactor, the History of the Puritans in North America, Puritan clergyma ...
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, ...
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
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,Longcope, Kay (June 8, 1991). Group co-opts an epithet. ''
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and he has criticized author J. Michael Bailey’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 o ...
''.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. ''
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Rosario has also expressed concern for excessive specialization in psychiatry, focusing on neuroscience while ignoring other factors.Jaschik, Scott (November 21, 2004)
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As chair of the LGBT Committee of the
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, 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 .


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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 Medical School alumni Intersex rights activists Intersex rights in the United States Living people Transgender studies academics 1962 births