US Health Dept. proposes nixing data collection on LGBTQ foster youth, reversing an Obama-era rule.
Christina Wilson Remlin, lead counsel at Children's Rights, a nonprofit that has publicly opposed the rule reversal, said HSS was failing in its duty to protect children in state care by proposing to stop collecting data on LGBTQ foster youth and prospective parents.
Remlin said collecting data on sexual orientation and gender identity is a “critical step toward addressing the needs” of LGBTQ youth and crucial to “holding government agencies accountable.”
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