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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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[–] Catpurple@lemmy.blahaj.zone 45 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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???

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 month ago

This is also happening in the most educated state in the union.

[–] WHARRGARBL@lemmy.world 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 8 points 1 month ago

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

[–] LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 10 points 1 month ago

You're 100%, correct. It's disgusting how must systemic child abuse there is

[–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

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

[–] no_circumlocution@lemmy.world 0 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I do not in any way mean to be rude or pedantic, but just FYI: you wrote "terns." I presume you meant "teens."

[–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)
[–] no_circumlocution@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

No problem. I agree with you, of course.