Megan Brock

And what they did is it was a five-year grant.

There were four different implementation sites around the country.

It was in Maryland.

It was in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Ohio.

And basically, they worked with local agencies around.

to develop programs to create.

One of the things they did was a survey to try and figure out how many children in the foster care system they believed had an alternative SOGI.

And they did all of this work and this research and created these materials they could send to other child welfare agencies looking to implement similar programs.

Right.

So one of the claims in Biden's September 2023 affirming foster care rule was this idea that LGBTQ youth are being overrepresented in foster care because they're experiencing what they call parental rejection.

which that just means you won't call your boy a girl.

That's in their language is parental rejection.

And they were saying that is, you know, driving children into the foster care system and we need to fix this.

And I've had an email from a researcher who actually was the first researcher to do any kind of survey to try and figure out how many kids in the foster care system identify as being LGBTQ.

And she wrote to this person, this point person in the Biden administration who was pushing this rule like three weeks before the rule was announced that, hey, the data doesn't actually show that.

The data shows that kids enter the foster care system when they're toddlers, you know, when they're young.

And then maybe they identify while they're in the foster care system.

But she outright said, hey, we don't have data to support that.

It was a big part of the rule anyway.

It didn't really matter.