How Do We Protect Our Families from the Government?

Families, communities, states, and nations are stronger when parents are allowed to make decisions for their minor children. However, parents are in danger of losing their children if they reject a child’s gender identity. Gender activists are even saying that transphobia is abuse of children. Katelynn Richardson and Megan Brock published an article about this topic in The Daily Signal. 

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 program developed in Cuyahoga County using federal grant funds provided the HHS’ Administration for Children and Families with an ideal model for infusing gender ideology into foster care and social services, the Daily Caller News Foundation discovered in reviewing hundreds of documents and emails obtained via public record requests.

The Biden-Harris administration’s new federal rule directs states to ensure foster children who identify as LGBTQ+ are placed in affirming homes. These “designated placements” must commit to creating an environment that supports a child’s “status or identity,” including through access to age-appropriate “resources, services, and activities.”

To gender activists consulted by the Biden administration, being “affirming” means assuming the child knows best about his or her identity – even if what he or she claims to want is life-altering medical procedures like hormone blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries to appear more like the opposite sex.

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 website.

When the rule was announced in September 2023, it quickly faced resistance. A coalition of 19 Republican states slammed the proposed rule, arguing it would infringe on religious liberty and free speech protections. Religious groups warned it would restrict faith-based providers.

Those concerns were well-founded: In states like Washington and Vermont, Christian couples have lost their foster care licenses due to similar state regulations. But as the activists consulted in the development of the federal rule show, these objections only scratch the surface of problems with the rule.

Parents in a handful of states have already sounded the alarm, claiming local authorities deemed them unfit guardians for refusing to allow their children to undergo a gender transition. In light of federally funded programs, like the one operating in Cuyahoga County, stories like these sound more like harbingers of an organized effort to undermine the family than one-off incidents….

The article is much longer, but the above quote shows that the Biden-Harris administration is willing to take children away from foster parents who do not support gender changes. A Harris administration could go further and take children away from natural or adoptive parents. We can strengthen our families, states, and nation by preventing another four years of Harris’ policies. Elections have consequences. Any parent who wants more of the past four years should vote for Harris. If you want to protect your children, vote Trump.