Quentin L. Van Meter (born September 13, 1947) is a pediatric endocrinologist and president of the American College of Pediatricians, a socially conservative advocacy group which is known for opposing gay marriage, gender reassignment surgery, and abortion.
Van Meter has stated the American College of Pediatricians (ACPeds) was formed when the AAP established a position that gay couples could raise children without adverse effects on their well-being.
The Southern Poverty Law Center described it as "anti-trans rhetoric" and has noted that ACPeds has deliberately misrepresented legitimate research in its attacks on LGBT people, to the point that at least one social scientist demanded that the group stop.
[8][5] In 2018, Van Meter, now President of ACPEDs was scheduled to speak at the University of Western Australia (UWA) as a stop on a national tour sponsored by the Australian Family Association.
"[2][4] In November 2018, Van Meter gave a speech titled “The Travesty of the Current State of Transgender Medicine” for the conversion therapy advocacy group the International Federation for Therapeutic and Counseling Choice.
[9] In November 2019 in Georgia, Meter supported an Atlanta bill by Ginny Ehrhart which would make it a felony to provide hormone treatments or gender affirmation surgery on minors.
[10] In 2020, Van Meter served as an expert defending the State of Ohio from a lawsuit represented by the ACLU and Lambda Legal demanding trans people be allowed to change their gender on their birth certificate, since it forced them to out themselves to others and risk danger.