Rob Garofolo
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Robert Garofalo, M.D., M.P.H., "is the director of Children’s Memorial Hospital’s Center for Gender, Sexuality and HIV Prevention. He is an associate professor in pediatrics and preventive medicine at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine and an attending physician at Children's Memorial Hospital, where he also directs the Adolescent/Young Adult HIV Program.[1]
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- "Dr. Garofalo is an associate professor of Pediatrics and Preventative Medicine at Northwestern University Fienberg School of Medicine. He is also an attending physician at Children's Memorial Hospital where he directs the Adolescent/Young Adult HIV Program. Dr. Garofalo is a national authority on LGBT health issues, adolescent sexuality, and HIV clinical care and prevention.
- He has been the principal investigator on five National Institute of Medicine (NIH) and two Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) funded research grants and serves as a co-investigator on three additional NIH-funded projects. He is the former past-President of the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association. In 2010, Dr. Garofalo served as a committee member for the National Academy of Sciences/Institute of Medicine Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Health Issues and Research Gaps and Opportunities.[2]
'[transgender] is the sexual orientation of the new millennium'
Excerpt from article published November 7, 2005 (and updated August 22, 2021) at the Chicago Tribune titled "Lost in transition":[3]
- “I think [transgender] is the sexual orientation of the new millennium,” said Dr. Rob Garofolo, who works with transgender youth at Howard Brown’s Broadway Youth Center in Lakeview. In his medical practice, he’s seeing more young people who are comfortable questioning their gender. He’s also seeing more interest in gender identity and transgender issues.
- The term transgender covers a range of gender expression: transsexuals who medically alter their bodies to change their gender, trans men who were born female and now live as men, trans women who were born male and live as female, and even blurrier terms like “genderqueer” that some young people use to identify themselves.
- On some college campuses, students are pushing for transgender rights, including gender-neutral bathrooms and housing. More schools are adding policies to protect gender identity; this year, the University of Illinois added it to its non-discrimination policy.
- It’s difficult to know how many people identify as transgender, because some chose to live a closeted life, for fear of discrimination or harassment, experts say.