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Mar 5, 2025
Dr Quentin Van Meter
Born to an Orthodox/Ukrainian mother and agnostic father, Quentin was attracted to both Kathy and her love of Catholicism while in college. Married now for 55 years, they are the proud parents of four children and seven grandchildren and attend the Cathedral of Christ the King in Atlanta.
Dr. Van Meter graduated from the College of William and Mary in 1969. He attended the Medical College of Virginia where he received his medical degree in 1973. Dr. Van Meter did his pediatric internship (1973-1974) and his pediatric residency (1974 to 1976) at the Naval Regional Medical Center in Oakland, through the University of California, San Francisco. He completed his pediatric endocrinology fellowship from 1978 to 1980 at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
Dr. Quentin Van Meter, pediatric endocrinologist
Few topics cause more confusion than transgenderism. The internet opened doorways to ideologies unheard of when today’s parents were teens, and they feel totally unprepared. Dr. Quentin van Meter helps clear the confusion. As a colleague of Dr. John Money, the psychologist who first attempted to transform an infant boy into a girl after a botched circumcision, Dr. Van Meter explains how prestigious Johns Hopkins University became the unwitting accomplice of Dr. Money’s personal theories on gender identity.
Few topics cause more confusion than transgenderism. The internet opened doorways to ideologies unheard of when today’s parents were teens, and they feel totally unprepared. Dr. Quentin van Meter helps clear the confusion. As a colleague of Dr. John Money, the psychologist who first attempted to transform an infant boy into a girl after a botched circumcision, Dr. Van Meter explains how prestigious Johns Hopkins University became the unwitting accomplice of Dr. Money’s personal theories on gender identity.
The first transgender clinic opened in Boston in 2007. Back then boys wanting to transition outnumbered girls 2-to-1. Now, girls outnumber boys almost 4-to-1. What happened? Today there are approximately 70 clinics nationwide, not including Planned Parenthood and online clinics that dispense puberty blockers. International studies now show puberty blockers cause permanent infertility.
Rejecting the notion that gender can be changed with medicines and surgery, Dr. Van Meter states unequivocally, “You can never become the opposite sex.” Understanding that hormones are the keys to unlock the body’s receptors, the endocrinologist started a medical practice which uses the correct biological terminology, helping patients safely navigate into adulthood. Allowed to mature naturally, most gender-confused teens grow into well-adjusted adults.
Much of Europe has begun to ban both hormonal and surgical manipulation of people who suffer from gender confusion. Thankfully, with the guidance of doctors like Dr. Van Meter, we are beginning to see similar closings in America. See his excellent resources below.
Born to an Orthodox/Ukrainian mother and agnostic father, Quentin was attracted to both Kathy and her love of Catholicism while in college. Married now for 55 years, they are the proud parents of four children and seven grandchildren and attend the Cathedral of Christ the King in Atlanta.
Dr. Van Meter graduated from the College of William and Mary in 1969. He attended the Medical College of Virginia where he received his medical degree in 1973. Dr. Van Meter did his pediatric internship (1973-1974) and his pediatric residency (1974 to 1976) at the Naval Regional Medical Center in Oakland, through the University of California, San Francisco. He completed his pediatric endocrinology fellowship from 1978 to 1980 at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
Dr. Van Meter worked as a staff pediatric endocrinologist at the Naval Hospital in San Diego from 1980 to 1986 and was Chairman and Director of the residency training program at the Naval Hospital Oakland from 1986 to 1991. In 1991, he retired from a 20-year career in the Navy Medical Corps and moved to the Atlanta area where he joined the Fayette Medical Clinic as a Pediatrician and Pediatric Endocrinologist.
To better serve the ever-expanding population of pediatric patients with endocrine disorders, he developed his own full-time endocrine practice which today bears his name. He is a clinical associate professor of Pediatrics at Morehouse School of Medicine and former adjunct Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Emory University School of Medicine. He is also the past president of the American College of Pediatricians.
Resources:
Resources:
- Van Meter Pediatric Endocrinology
- Doctors Protecting Children Declaration - More than 75,000 physicians representing more than 60 countries have signed this declaration to protect children.
- Biological Integrity: Integrating the Mind and Body - A project of the American College of Pediatricians: “Biological Integrity is a reliable medical resource on the topic of gender dysphoria for parents, teens, physicians, schools, and policymakers.”
- American College of Pediatricians
- Legislation Made Simple, a show produced by AM 1160 The Quest that discusses legislation in the Georgia General Assembly in light of Church teachings, featured Dr. Van Meter on three episodes: The Transgender Phenomenon, part 1 (aired April 15, 2023), The Transgender Phenomenon, part 2 (aired April 22, 2023), and How Transgender Interventions Harm Children (aired Jan. 27, 2024).
