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 marque definite parents seeking to lone rise a kid of their biologic enactment bash not look other roadblocks successful the adoption and fostering process.

The "SAFE Home Act" would forestall agencies that person national backing from rejecting those parents oregon placing further hurdles oregon 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 bash immoderate "medical, surgical, oregon intelligence treatments" that would effort to marque changes to a child’s sex identity.

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Sen.-elect Jim Banks astatine the 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 oregon fostering conscionable due to the fact that they reason irreversible sex-change procedures connected children. This measure makes definite families aren’t punished for utilizing communal sense," Banks told Fox News Digital successful a statement.

Sen. Cotton said the authorities helps tackle "radical sex policies." Part of the bill’s inspiration comes from a Biden-era Department of Health and Human Services regularisation that makes definite children are enactment into homes that affirm their intersexual predisposition oregon sex individuality successful 2023. When that regularisation came out, Banks archetypal introduced the authorities erstwhile helium was successful the House of Representatives, but it did not determination forward.

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

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

"We indispensable support the rights of parents to rise their children successful a mode that reflects world and safeguards their future. The SAFE Home Act ensures that parents are not excluded from adopting simply for having communal consciousness and lasting against unsafe sex ideologies that endanger the well-being of children," Miller stated.

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

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

Fox News’ Elizabeth Elkind contributed to this report.