Senate Bill 1677, authored by Sen. Julie Daniels (R), aims to prevent the Oklahoma Department of Human Services (DHS) from mandating that potential foster and adoptive parents endorse a child's sexual orientation or gender identity if it contradicts the prospective parents' 'sincerely held religious or moral beliefs.'
Given their increased susceptibility to verbal and physical abuse, conversion therapy, and family rejection, LGBTQ youth in foster care were three times more likely to report a suicide attempt over the past year compared to their heterosexual, cisgender counterparts.
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