LAGCAPA plays an integral role in planning the scientific program for American
Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry's (AACAP) annual meeting. Issues that
LAGCAPA members have presented to psychiatric colleagues include topics such as
gay teen suicide, gays and lesbians as parents, and parenting
gender-nonconforming children.
In addition, many of LAGCAPA's members serve on AACAP's
Sexual Orientation and Gender
Identity Issues (formerly "Homosexual Issues") Committee (SOGIIC) where
important policy matters are addressed. Recent issues have included the drafting
of a sexual orientation nondiscrimination policy adopted by AACAP, AACAP
position statements on
sexual orientation
and civil rights, the fitness of
gays and lesbians as
parents, "reparative" therapy for teens, and recommending AACAP positions on
amicus curiae briefs submitted by civil rights organizations in several
precedent-setting legal cases.