The American College of Pediatricians (ACPeds), founded in 2002 in opposition to the American Academy of Pediatrics’ (AAP) support for adoption by LGBTQ couples, was cited in one of several articles published by right-wing news outlets in late November in apparent concern over transgender people “taking advantage of” and “recruiting” people with autism.
Heron Greenesmith, Esq. is the former Senior Research Analyst for An umbrella acronym standing for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer or questioning. Learn more justice here at PRA and a policy attorney with over a decade of LGBTQ advocacy experience. Currently the Deputy Director of Policy at the A term used for someone whose gender is not (exclusively) the one they were assigned at birth. Learn more Law Center, Heron is also adjunct faculty at Boston University School of Law and an Editorial Board Member at the Bulletin of Applied Trans Studies. They are a co-founder of BiLaw and the Polyamory Legal Advocacy Coalition, and live in Boston.
