Potential Adoption Roadblocks Could Soon Be Removed As Gop Ramps Up Pressure: 'safe, Loving Homes'

FIRST ON FOX: Republican lawmakers are re-introducing authorities to make judge parents seeking to only raise a kid of their biologic activity do not look other roadblocks successful nan take and fostering process.

The "SAFE Home Act" would forestall agencies that person national backing from rejecting those parents aliases placing further hurdles aliases oversight connected them.

The authorities introduced by Sens. Jim Banks of Indiana and Tom Cotton of Arkansas, arsenic good arsenic House Rep. Mary Miller of Illinois, would guarantee that adoptive parents would not beryllium obligated to do immoderate "medical, surgical, aliases psychological treatments" that would effort to make changes to a child’s gender identity.

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Sen.-elect Jim Banks astatine nan U.S. Capitol connected Nov. 12, 2024. (Allison Robbert/AFP via Getty Images)

"Kids merit safe, loving homes and parents shouldn’t beryllium blocked from adopting aliases fostering conscionable because they reason irreversible sex-change procedures connected children. This measure makes judge families aren’t punished for utilizing communal sense," Banks told Fox News Digital successful a statement.

Sen. Cotton said nan authorities helps tackle "radical gender policies." Part of nan bill’s inspiration comes from a Biden-era Department of Health and Human Services norm that makes judge children are put into homes that affirm their intersexual predisposition aliases gender personality successful 2023. When that norm came out, Banks first introduced nan authorities erstwhile he was successful nan House of Representatives, but it did not move forward.

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President Donald Trump acknowledges erstwhile Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines earlier signing nan No Men successful Women's Sports executive bid successful nan East Room of nan White House connected Feb. 5, 2025. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images)

President Donald Trump has taken aggregate executive actions related to transgender policies, including seeking to limit "medical interventions" for group nether 19 years aged and ensuring federally funded institutions only let biologic women successful women’s sports programs. The actions person faced ineligible opposition, including a transgender subject prohibition that nan Supreme Court ruled could spell for now connected arsenic lawsuits are ongoing.

"We must take sides nan authorities of parents to raise their children successful a measurement that reflects reality and safeguards their future. The SAFE Home Act ensures that parents are not excluded from adopting simply for having communal consciousness and opinionated against vulnerable gender ideologies that frighten nan well-being of children," Miller stated.

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Rep. Mary Miller speaks during a news convention astatine nan U.S. Capitol connected June 15, 2021. (Sarah Silbiger/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

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As of fiscal twelvemonth 2022, location were complete 368,000 children successful nan foster attraction system, and astir 109,000 children were "waiting to beryllium adopted" nationwide, according to nan astir caller Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System study from 2023.

Fox News’ Elizabeth Elkind contributed to this report.