Nanette Gartrell

Nanette Kathryn Gartrell is an American psychiatrist, researcher, lesbian activist and writer. Gartrell is the author of over 80 research reports on topics including medical student depression, sexual exploitation of patients by healthcare professionals and sexual minority parent families. Her investigation into physician misconduct led to a clean-up of professional ethics codes and the criminalization of boundary violations. For this work, she was featured in a 1991 PBS ''Frontline'' documentary titled ''My Doctor, My Lover''.

Among other works, Gartrell is the author of ''My Answer Is NO. . . . If That's Okay with You: How Women Can Say NO with Confidence''. She was also a co-author of an essay in the 2017 book (and subsequent editions) of ''The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President''.

Gartrell is probably best known for being the principal researcher since 1986 for the US National Longitudinal Lesbian Family Study, which is the longest-running investigation of lesbian mothers and their children in the world. Provided by Wikipedia