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State agency’s transgender ideology and foster families

State agency’s transgender ideology and foster families — Read on http://www.bpnews.net/53431/state-agencys-transgender-ideology-and-foster-families

New Guidelines Drafted Regarding LGBTQ Kids in Kansas Foster Care | Kansas Public Radio

The state’s child welfare agency has drafted guidelines urging foster parents to allow LGBTQ kids in their care to “express themselves as they see themselves,” riling conservatives a little more than a year after the state granted legal protections to faith-based adoption agencies that do not place children with LGBTQ parents. — Read on kansaspublicradio.org/kpr-news/new-guidelines-drafted-regarding-lgbtq-kids-kansas-foster-care

Kansas DCF draft guidelines: Affirm LGBT youth in foster care | The Wichita Eagle

The Kansas Department for Children and Families is telling child placement agencies that foster parents should affirm LGBTQ youth and their gender identity. That’s angering some conservatives. — Read on http://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/article232890842.html

Organization seeks to find foster families at Pride festival | News | wsmv.com

This is where we met our agency – at Columbus Pride festival. For decades, the Nashville Pride Festival has been a celebration with loud music and big fashion. One group’s seeing the event as a powerful opportunity. — Read on http://www.wsmv.com/content/tncms/live/

Lesbian Couple Barred From Fostering Migrant Kids

A taxpayer-funded child-welfare group told a lesbian couple who sought to provide a home for migrant kids that they didn’t qualify—because they don’t ‘mirror the Holy Family.’ — Read on http://www.thedailybeast.com/lesbian-couple-barred-from-fostering-child-refugees

Philadelphia Catholic Foster Care Agency Loses Appeal Over Gay Rights : NPR

The agency argued its religious freedoms were violated when Philadelphia ended a foster care contract. A federal appeals court disagreed. — Read on http://www.npr.org/2019/04/22/716179430/catholic-foster-care-agency-can-not-discriminate-against-lgbtq-couples-court-say

LGBT groups, HHS clash over asking youth in foster care about sexual orientation

LGBT rights groups and the Department of Health & Human Services are clashing over the proposed elimination of questions seeking to identify the sexual orientation of youths in foster care, which the Trump administration concluded could be “intrusive and worrisome.” — Read on http://www.washingtonblade.com/2019/04/19/lgbt-groups-hhs-clash-over-asking-youth-in-foster-care-about-sexual-orientation/

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