Following a lawsuit by conservative legal group Alliance Defending Freedom, Mass. Will no longer require foster parents to affirm a child’s “sexual orientation and gender identity.”

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    9 days ago

    Fuck off. Fuck OFF. MA is one of the only states that isn’t completely terrible, and then shit like this has to happen here anyway? To the most vulnerable damned group of people, queer kids, trans and cis, already in a difficult life situation aside from bigotry against who they are considering they are in foster care???

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    Now the fundamentalist churches can advise their congregations to become foster parents and “fix those kids.”

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      8 days ago

      And then they can take queer kids away from accepting families and traffic them to evangelical abusers to genocide them

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    Okay so you can place a child in a home without their consent where they are abused for an aspect of themselves they cannot change. So just. Torturing queer children for fun. This is illegal. This is categorically against the human rights conventions of the UN that the US has signed. This is a crime against humanity. Conversion therapy basically flat out doubles the rate of death by suicide. Youve taken these children from their families and now sticking them into households where they will be hated and abused in every possible way. Trying to force a child to change their sexuality or gender is sexual abuse. The rate of death by suicide for victims of childhood sexual abuse is significantly higher.

    This is torture. Thats torture. Thats intent to destroy. This is literally a law designed with the express intent of creating genocidal actions against queer people.

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    This is going to lead to abuse of vulnerable terns, which is the point because Christian conservatives are evil and I’m done being polite to them