Texas foster care homes will not have to affirm children’s gender identity outside of biological sex in order to maintain all government funding, a federal district judge ruled, siding with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and against a 2024 rule from the Biden administration.
Paxton sued former President Joe Biden’s Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Xavier Becerra in September 2024 over a rule that would have required foster care homes to “affirm” a child’s “LGTBQI+” identity, whether it be through housing them with other members of their desired sex or providing experimental gender-modification surgeries or treatments — such as hormone blockers, castration, or other “bottom surgeries.”
