Comments on: anti-gay propaganda alert: US schools

By: Alan Ralph

Alan Ralph — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 12:35:55 +0000

I think the AAP would have a good case for getting the ‘ACP’ to change its name or make explicit that it is not related to are affiliated with the AAP. What the ACP is doing is just plain wrong!

By: Dr. M

Dr. M — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 08:11:29 +0000

@peter: I don’t think that the ‘American College of Pediatricians” has *anything* to do with the AAP and I am certain that it is not a legitimate professional association like the AAP. It is just a bunch of people with a political agenda that are trying to borrow legitimacy by choosing that particular name for themselves. And while I am all for political agenda’s, I think that it is outrage that they try to pose as a medical society.

By: peter

peter — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 00:32:57 +0000

I was surprised to see this, as the dominant professional organization for pediatricians (the american academy of pediatrics aap.org) is quite supportive of the idea that sexuality is inborn and the child should be encouraged to make their own choices. It is the official position of AAP that “conversion” therapies are ineffective and dangerous and that the role of physicians, parents and educators is to support the adolescent, regardless of their sexual orientation. If is sound a bit forceful on this, it is only because I just a had a lecture on it from a pediatrician.