For pediatricians like Robert Garofalo, MD, MPH, division chief of adolescent and young adult medicine at the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, the efforts of Texas state officials to investigate gender-affirming health care for transgender and gender-diverse youth as child abuse are infuriating.
“It’s gutting a whole host of life-saving services that are critically needed,” said Garofalo, a professor in the Department of Pediatrics at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, in an interview.