Kiddie Doctors: Push Teh Gay!

from Stand Firm by David Fischler 

Yes, this is exactly what I want my child’s pediatrician to be focused on. From the Washington Times:

In its first sexual-orientation policy update in nearly a decade, the nation’s largest pediatricians group said its members should do more to fight “heterosexism” and “homophobia,” as well as step up their care of teens with same-sex attractions.
“Sexual-minority youth should not be considered abnormal,” the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) said in its new materials on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning (LGBTQ) youths, released Monday.
The policy statement and technical report — which updates a 2004 policy — is nonbinding but recommends that pediatricians create offices that are “teen-friendly and welcoming to all adolescents, regardless of sexual orientation and behavior.”
Doctors can signal their openness to LGBTQ youths by putting out brochures with pictures of “both same- and opposite-gender couples” or posting a “rainbow” decal on an office door or bulletin board. The report also suggests that medical questionnaires be changed to be gender-neutral, and that staff be trained to not ask a boy about his girlfriend, but to ask him to “tell me about your partner” instead.

The new policy is, of course, devoid of any suggestion that celebrating homosexuality in a pediatrician’s office might create a hostile environment for those who hold that gayness is not the most wonderfulest thing in all creation. No matter–the knuckle-grazers will just have to adopt the New Gay Orthodoxy™, or let their little rugrats go untreated or go elsewhere to be treated by one of their fellow Neanderthals.

AAP, which was founded in 1930 and has 60,000 members, offers unprecedented guidelines on transgender and “questioning” youths, gender-identity formation and gender dysphoria in its new “Office-Based Care for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning Youth.” AAP policy statements in 2004, 1993 and 1983 either ignored or only touched on topics such as these.
It covers problems such as eating disorders, substance abuse, depression, suicide ideation and sexual risk-taking, and identifies homophobia (“the irrational fear and resulting hatred of homosexuals”) and heterosexism (“the societal expectation that heterosexuality is the expected norm, and that, somehow LGBTQ individuals are abnormal”) as major sources of distress for LGBTQ youths.
Thus, pediatricians “should support or create gay-straight alliances at schools, and support the development and enforcement of zero-tolerance policies for homophobic teasing, bullying, harassment and violence,” the AAP policy said.

Because what this society needs is more politically involved doctors who can straighten out (pardon the pun) those who refuse to kneel to the Rainbow Zod.

So what can parents do about this? Simple: before you decide on a pediatrician, ask those you are considering if they are members of the American College of Pediatricians or the Christian Medical and Dental Association. If so, you are good to go, at least in terms of knowing whether they are going to push gay normalization on you and your children.