LGBTQ Parenting Roundup
It’s Pride Month, and there’s always a lot happening, so let’s round things up! Read on for news and resources you may have missed.
Foster Parenting
Tell HHS Why We Need Data on LGBTQ Foster and Adoptive Families and LGBTQ Foster Youth
(A guest post from the Every Child Deserves a Family Campaign.) Do you support LGBTQ foster youth and LGBTQ foster and adoptive families? If so, we encourage you to express your views to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services before next Wednesday’s deadline on a regulation proposing changes to how adoption and foster care data is collected.
Connecticut Steps Up for Kids; Kansas, Oklahoma Step Back
Connecticut has launched a campaign to recruit more LGBTQ parents to become foster or adoptive parents, even as Kansas becomes the ninth state to allow child welfare agencies to discriminate against LGBTQ prospective parents or youth, among others, on the basis of the agencies’ religious beliefs.
LGBTQ Parenting Roundup
A few victories to make your week!
And could a queer mom end up as prime minister of the U.K?
Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado Advance Legislation to Discriminate in Adoption and Foster Care
Will Oklahoma, Kansas, and Colorado become the next states to allow adoption and foster care agencies to discriminate against LGBTQ prospective parents, youth, and others who don’t align with their religious beliefs?
Action Alert: Less Than Two Days Left to Tell HHS Not to Implement Discrimination Rule
There are less than two days left to tell the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) why you oppose a new rule that will allow health care providers to refuse a wide range of medical services to patients if furnishing them violates the providers’ religious or moral beliefs. The new rule “weaponizes” HHS’ Office of Civil Rights against LGBTQ people, people living with HIV, and many others, says Lambda Legal. Here’s how to add your voice in opposition to it.
“The Department of Health and Human Services? Or the Department of Illness and Death?”
Several LGBTQ organizations are condemning the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS’) plan to delay the collection of foster care and adoption data that was required by a 2016 rule, including data related to sexual orientation and gender identity.
U.K. Celebrates LGBT Fostering and Adoption Week
It’s LGBT Fostering and Adoption Week in the U.K., so even though I’m based in the U.S., it seemed a good time to share some information about the event, along with stories and resources about fostering and adoption.
LGBTQ Parenting Roundup
A mixed bag of news this time, with a few big wins, one legislative loss, and two library battles, among other news.
Lesbian Couple Sues HHS After Being Blocked from Fostering Refugee Child
When spouses Fatma Marouf and Bryn Esplin wanted to become foster parents for a refugee child, they were told by the child services agency that they could not apply because their family structure did not “mirror the Holy Family.” Now, they’re suing the agency’s parent organization, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), and the funder of its program to place refugee children, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.