Vermont Christian parents say they were punished by foster system over transgender stance

A Christian couple in Vermont say the state threatened to revoke their foster license over their position on transgender ideology and sex-change treatments for kids in their care. Melinda Antonucci, 44, and Casey Mathieu, 42, say the state made them take part in an LGBTQ+ training – as part of their license application – which discussed medical procedures for trans kids. They secured their license in January and fostered one child on an emergency basis for two weeks in February.

Now the married couple say they are speaking out against the state’s gender-affirming rules, which they say appear to be required for parents to be assigned foster children. 'There’s probably been a lot of mixed emotions. In some ways we are angry and also very frustrated that we're trying to do something good, trying to give something back,' Antonucci told Fox News Digital.

The group is demanding that DCF cease any plans to revoke the couple’s foster care license based on their views and demands that it stop any discriminatory actions against the couple. The group is also requesting that DCF provide written confirmation that their license will not be revoked due to their protected speech and religious beliefs and that it provide clarification that foster parents are not required to adhere to DCF’s preferred treatment plans for trans kids.

just feel like people need to know what's going on, because it's crazy that they're wanting to do this to kids and pushing it on kids and discriminating against us,' she said. 'I think that we're good people who want to do something good. I just think it's really gotten out of control.'

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