Growth of Obama-era foster care policy unmasks transgender orthodoxy’s inherent threat to parental rights

By Tyler O’Neil  | Daily Signal

A groundbreaking new report from The Daily Caller exposes the backstory behind the Biden-Harris administration’s regulation on foster care rules for children who identify as LGBTQ, and underscores the inherent threat that transgender orthodoxy poses to the parental rights of moms and dads who reject the idea that children can be “born in the wrong body.”

In April, the Administration for Children and Families at the Department of Health and Human Services released a final rule for agencies to fully implement on or before Oct. 1, 2026. The HHS agency’s first released a version of the rule in September 2023, and updated it in response to public comment.

Katelynn Richardson and Megan Brock, writing for The Daily Caller, reported that the new rule cites federally funded research from activists at the National Center for Youth with Diverse Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity & Expression. This “SOGIE Center” itself is run by many of the same people who ran a study aimed at connecting kids who identify as LGBTQ in foster care with “affirming” caretakers.

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