While crafting its foster care rule finalized in April, HHS officials took inspiration from social workers in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, who spent years pioneering a program that strong-arms parents into affirming whatever confused beliefs children express about their gender. Parents who decline risk losing a voice in their child’s life.
The Biden-Harris administration’s new federal rule directs states to ensure foster children who identify as LGBTQ are placed in affirming homes.
In less than three minutes, he cast a vision for completely transforming child protective systems nationwide.
To Cuyahoga County child protective services, being affirming often means providing kids access to items like chest binders or prosthetic packers that mimic a penis, according to an information sheet for caregivers on the Cuyahoga County Division of Children & Family Services (DCFS) website.
When the four-year grant project concluded in 2022, the agency boasted that their program had “provided a blueprint for Health and Human Services divisions throughout the nation to follow.” (RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: Mandatory State Training Steers Judges To Question Fitness Of Parents Who Don’t Affirm Gender-Confused Kids) The county’s “AFFIRM.ME” model included four interventions: the first identifies LGBTQ youth, the second convinces parents to affirm their children, the third helps LGBTQ kids locate affirming adults in their circles and the fourth trains prospective foster parents to become affirming.
Family rejection of a child’s gender identity cannot be dismissed as a personal view, he argued.
While crafting its foster care rule finalized in April, HHS officials took inspiration from social workers in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, who spent years pioneering a program that strong-arms parents into affirming whatever confused beliefs children express about their gender.
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