SHOCKING: Inside The IDHW’s Mandatory Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Training For Foster And Adoptive Parents
Traditional Christian Families Need Not Apply
The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare was caught in controversy last September, after its website was shown to be directing users to “Porn Literacy” resources online.
Then, on Tuesday, January 17th, Anna K. Miller and Scott Yenor revealed that 8th grade students in Moscow Idaho were being taught about “anal and oral sex” and were shown a graphic video produced by Trojan Condoms, that shows a cartoon removing a condom from an erect penis in their sex-ed class.
Now, the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare has again been caught; this time with mandatory “sexual orientation,” “gender identity,” and “cultural humility” training for prospective foster parents.
Below are a series of photographs sent to the Idaho Tribune, showing pages from the IDHW’s “Fostering Idaho Resources & Skills Training,” which is recommended to anyone seeking to adopt a child in Idaho.
However, if you are looking to become a foster parent, these training courses are not optional; they are mandatory.
In the Fostering Idaho Resources & Skills Training workbook, on page 142 there is a glossary on “Sexual Orientation & Gender Identity Expression (SOGIE).” The document says that:
“…using a person's chosen name and pronouns is essential to affirming their identity and showing basic respect. The experience of being misgendered - having someone use the incorrect pronouns to refer to you - can be uncomfortable and hurtful.”
This section goes on to list a glossary of terms such as “Gender non-conforming,” “Genderqueer,” “Gender transition,” “Gender-fluid,” “Non-binary,” “Queer,” “Pansexual,” and many more.
There is a section on “Cultural Humility,” which directs foster parents to “Be the child’s sounding board rather than inserting your own beliefs.”
This is straight out of the same playbook that brought us things like “Social Emotional Learning” and “Self-Directed Learning” which both find their roots in Jean Jacques Rousseau’s book Emilé.
Rousseau, for anyone interested, was generally disgusted by Christianity, and his works form one of the main pillars of the French Revolution, which is most well known for the bloody Reign of Terror, where over 30,000 Frenchmen, women, priests and nuns were slaughtered at the guillotine, or worse, left to starve to death in jail.
Back then they called it “egalitarianism.” Today we call it “equity.”
The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare’s training booklet goes on, saying on page 147:
“Let your words and actions reflect that you are not assuming or aspiring for your child to fall into traditional paths. Accept and encourage safe exploration of all parts of their identity.”
That’s right. The old ways just didn’t work. Thank goodness the State of Idaho is doing what it can to prevent people from “falling into traditional paths.”
But wait, there’s more:
In order to be approved to become a foster parent, you must also take tests on the materials included in the mandatory trainings provided by the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare. Obviously, if you don’t put the “right answer,” your application to be a foster parent will not be approved.
In another packet provided to the Idaho Tribune titled “NTDC Right Time Training SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT & IDENTITY QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS” prospective foster parents can see the questions on their test, and the answers they will need to provide to be allowed to engage in the foster care system.
The packet is a part of the National Training and Development Cirriculum for Foster and Adoptive Parents, which is provided by the Children’s Bureau and funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
The packet encourages foster parents to “Display ‘hate-free zone’ signs or other symbols (such as a pink triangle or a rainbow flag) indicating an environment friendly to LGBTQ persons.”
The only citation in this packet comes from Caitlin Ryan, the founder of the Family Acceptance Project.
These are some of the “Resources” provided by the Family Acceptance Project:
There’s more than just a bunch of stuffy training packets involved with the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare’s Foster Parent and Adoption Training classes.
They have videos too:
There are also podcasts provided for training purposes, like this one with LGBT Youth activist, and lawyer, Jarel Melendez who grew up in foster care.
Listen if you dare:
This is Jarel Melendez, the “expert” on being a parent that the IDHW wants you to listen to:
Host: We asked Jarel what made a difference for him and helping to become more comfortable and settled in his sexual identity.
Jarel: “The power of mentoring. I cannot articulate and advocate for mentoring enough. I met a openly gay, proud Afro Latino. I identify as an Afro Latino, so already there was a connection. He was the first person to accept me for who I was […] It changed the trajectory of my life.”
You could put what Jarel said a different way: Don’t let your kids hang around gay people, and they won’t become gay, queer, trans, or sexually confused.
Jarel continues:
“I do believe in the power of images; whether that’s a movie, it’s a picture, it’s a social media post. Prime example - we can go and watch a movie. In that movie you can see someone kissing for crying out loud, may be the same gender, and you can say “how did that make you feel” and that young person will tell you!“
We at the Idaho Tribune also believe in the power of images - like these images we found on Jarel’s public Facebook Page:
Powerful.
Something else that is powerful are studies like this one, which posit that over half of all sexual abuse in foster homes is homosexual in nature.
Or this study which shows that over 60% of child molestations in foster homes in Illinois were not only homosexual in nature, but that this data is “similar to the proportion of homosexual perpetrators in datasets from large entities and put in question the current policy of utilizing homosexuals as foster and adoptive parents.”
After receiving all of these training packets, videos, and podcasts from a concerned Idaho citizen, we were left with one question:
Why is the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare mandating that people who want to be foster parents have to go through a gender identity and sexual orientation training for minors?
We asked this question to a nice lady at the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare. She answered:
“Well, because we want to support and meet youth and children where they’re at. We aren’t we aren’t trying to, uh, change, change kids or anything like that. We want, I mean we really want our, um, foster parents to support kids and help them from where they’re at. And so, if, if we have a child or youth who identifies as LGBTQIA+, or anything in between, then we would want the foster parent to support that. And if that’s not something that an individual feels that they can do, then perhaps being a foster parent isn’t the right choice for them.”
We are left with only one conclusion.
The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare is actively trying to filter out parents and good-Samaritans that come from a traditional background, that believe in Christianity, and that want to help young children become normal, productive, functioning members of society.
They are trying to make sure that the only people signing up to be foster parents in Idaho are people who will not discipline their children, or guide them towards Jesus Christ.