Posted on 08/02/2013 6:04:47 AM PDT by massmike
If you’re a physician who sees children and adolescents on a regular basis, there is a lot you can do to encourage young patients and their families to view homosexuality as normal and healthy, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics.
The AAP recently issued an updated policy statement concerning homosexuality to its 60,000 members. The new guidelines say pediatricians should strive to “provide the context that being LGBTQ is normal, just different.”
According to the AAP, homosexuality “should not be considered abnormal.” While the organization acknowledges that “LGBTQ” teens as a whole engage in riskier behaviors and report higher rates of substance abuse, promiscuity, depression, self-harm, and even teen pregnancy, they blame that on “the presence of stigma from homophobia and heterosexism,” which “often leads to psychological distress [and] an increase in risk behaviors.”
As a result, the organization says doctors should make every effort to eliminate heterosexism in their practices.
Heterosexism is defined as “the societal expectation that heterosexuality is the expected norm and that, somehow, LGBTQ individuals are abnormal.” The AAP calls heterosexism “insidious and damaging.”
The organization recommends doctors display brochures and images featuring same-sex couples as well as straight ones, and affix rainbow decals throughout their offices to show they embrace homosexuality.
Doctors are urged to ensure that all office forms are gender neutral and do not presume heterosexuality; for example, forms should refer to “parent(s) or guardian(s),” not “mother and father.”
The group also warns doctors to never assume that a young patient is heterosexual. If a child tells her doctor she is having sex, the first question the AAP recommends physicians ask is, “Are you having sex with males, females, or both?”
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homosexual agenda ping
I suppose the could put up pictures of people doing it with animals or people beheading other people, as well, to have children think those activities are normal and healthy. There is no end to the types of pictures they could put up.
But - it is not normal and healthy!
And yet another cut to the body of our society.
Wow, they have gotten really blatant about their propaganda crap
But it's neither!
That's because they ARE...
Or maybe get some of the pictures from the Folsom Street Fair in san fagcisco with all it’s “gaiety” on full display. And not the kind you see in the newspaper either.
Should they be showing pics of pedophiles in action, too?
Good God, this country is dying...
I’ll never forget the words of a very wise FReeper:
“There is only one reason adults want to teach children about homosexuality.”
“LGBTQ” ????
What does the “Q” stand for? .... maybe I don’t want to know.
It took me a while to figure out what the “T” was for. (At first I thought it was for “TRI sexuals” ... if there was a BI sexual, why not a TRI sexual?)
Perversion has gained critical mass and will just build on itself from here on. This move by the AAP will seem tame in a few years.
One of my best posts.
And it will put pediatricians out of business eventually.
Then he goes straight to call child protective services.
Are they going to require a photo of Dear Leader to be hung in all offices, too?
The Q stands for questioning.
My take is if somebody is that far out there, why should they be limited to only those choices? What about a gender or condition that doesn’t exist or is even theorized. It’s divisive to make them choose a label from only the current set. Also what happens if one or several of the new choices use the same initials as one already in the acronym?
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