A proposed rule from HHS’s Administration for Children and Families (ACF) seeks to classify foster facilities and parents who hold traditional views about sex and marriage as unqualified to provide a “safe and appropriate” environment for kids with same-sex attraction or gender dysphoria.
Federal law states that children in foster care must receive “safe and proper” supervision that will “support their health and wellbeing.” According to ACF, foster families who refuse to let their foster child be chemically castrated or irreversibly mutilated, choose to call the child by his or her given name and biologically correct pronouns, or try to protect the child from radical gender ideology propaganda and propagandists, fail to adequately meet these requirements.
“Due to the mental health challenges experienced by LGBTQI+ children in foster care it is essential to place LGBTQI+ children in placements that can provide the support and specialized resources necessary to support their health and wellbeing,” the proposed rule states.
ACF claims the change is necessary because “LGBTQI+ children are overrepresented in the foster care population” and often enter the system “with complex needs and trauma related to the discrimination and stigma they have experienced because of their sexual orientation or gender identity.”
To build its case the agency openly solicited “personal stories from current and former LGBTQI+ foster children and others, that speak to the risks to children of placements that are not safe and appropriate, and the advantages of placements that are.”
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