The History & Politics of LGBT with Dr. Quentin Van Meter [Podcast]

We’ll be picking up a conversation we started last time with Dr. Quentin Van Meter concerning the physiological and psychological truths and myths relating to the LGBT community; particularly as they pertain to those struggling through transgender issues. Today, we’ll continue that conversation; but, we’re going to take a deeper look at the history, the key players and the politics that might put together some of the missing pieces of a puzzle that is, no-doubt puzzling to a lot of people today.

Dr. Van Meter is a Pediatric endocrinologist in Atlanta, GA. He is affiliated with Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. He received his medical degree from Virginia Commonwealth University School of medicine. He has been in private practice since 1991, after a 20-year career in the Navy medical corps. He moved to the Atlanta area where he developed his own full-time practice. He is a clinical associate professor of pediatrics at both Emory University and Morehouse schools of medicine. Earlier this year he stepped into the role of President of American College of Pediatricians.

The History, Key Players and Politics

Today we join Dr. Quentin Van Meter on an examination of the mental health field and the influences into the LGBT movement. Dr. Van Meter identifies some of the key players in this shift and how they have impacted our society. If you missed Part 1 – be sure to listen to The Transgender Myth.

A concept has been developed that gender was fluid and that society could essentially change this. Dr. Money had an idea and decided to test this theory on a child to determine the success. These illegal acts were then published and have been woven into our society today. It was a dangerous process in which people have been experimented on to prove the theory.

Patients in such experiments and treatments were cited to have hormonal disorders or having other issues where, at birth, it was difficult to distinguish whether or not the patient was, in fact, male or female. A question was raised as to, “if we take someone who looks like a male but has the physical genitalia of a female but raise them as a male, what will be the outcome?”

Two classes of patients existed in these experiments. First, were the pediatric patients. Secondly, we see the adults who wanted to be the opposite sex (transexuals). Adults were treated with hormones and anatomically transformed as best as they could with the technology at the time. These procedures were then extrapolated and used on infants to test the theory. Infants were raised as the opposite sex and given the name of the opposite sex. The prestigious academic medical community at large had shunned these practices of Dr. Money.

A study was conducted in Sweden of those who had undergone gender transitions. Those who had worked to change their gender, whether through hormones and/or physical surgeries, had a 19% higher suicide rate than the general population. This was published in 2012. Sweden was incredibly tolerant and affirming of transgender. To say that these studies are not valid is a political agenda. It is not based on science.

By 2009 the endocrine society in the United States came up with a special interest group within themselves (all transgender agenda) and developed guidelines that were very similar to WPATH (World Professional Association for Transgender Health), and made them recommendations.

But what can parents do, in today’s society, to raise healthy children who may question their gender? Compassion for the child is absolutely paramount. Parents need to express their love and accept the child at the moment for their suffering. They should work to seek out counseling. In fact, roughly 98% in boys and 88% in girls that a child will return to their biological sex following the removal of turmoil in their life. Sometimes this is a short process, but many times it is a long process. It requires family support.

Episode Highlights:

• An overview of the history, key players and political agendas that played a role in the transgender movement
• Review experiments and science behind the movement
• What if my child believe they were born the wrong gender?

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