{"id":1669237,"date":"2022-10-03T05:20:10","date_gmt":"2022-10-03T09:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1669237"},"modified":"2022-10-03T05:20:23","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T09:20:23","slug":"gretchen-whitmers-solution-for-broken-child-welfare-system-sexual-orientation-and-gender-identity-consulting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gretchen-whitmers-solution-for-broken-child-welfare-system-sexual-orientation-and-gender-identity-consulting\/","title":{"rendered":"Gretchen Whitmer\u2019s Solution for Broken Child Welfare System: \u2018Sexual Orientation\u2019 and \u2018Gender Identity\u2019 Consulting"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgretchen-whitmers-solution-for-broken-child-welfare-system-sexual-orientation-and-gender-identity-consulting%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1669237&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Months after a federal judge described the state of Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer\u2019s child foster care system as &#8220;devastating,&#8221; the Democrat&#8217;s administration is turning to an atypical antidote: a &#8220;sexual orientation&#8221; and &#8220;gender identity&#8221; consultant.<\/p>\n<p>Whitmer&#8217;s Children&#8217;s Services Agency on September 12 issued a <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/RFP-220000002723-1.docx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">contract proposal<\/a> for a &#8220;Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and Expression (SOGIE) Consultant&#8221; to assist the agency&#8217;s &#8220;Diversity Equity and Inclusion Unit,&#8221; documents obtained by the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> show. Included in the proposal are directives to distribute surveys on &#8220;the needs and concerns of LGBTQIA+ \u2026 children,&#8221; develop &#8220;training curriculum&#8221; on topics such as &#8220;implicit bias,&#8221; and identify &#8220;community services for Native American Two Spirit youth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The proposal comes as Whitmer faces a high-profile reelection bid against Republican challenger Tudor Dixon. It also comes as the Democrat&#8217;s Children&#8217;s Services Agency <a href=\"https:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/story\/news\/local\/michigan\/2022\/01\/20\/court-monitors-issue-devastating-review-michigan-child-welfare-system\/6591225001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">faces scrutiny<\/a> from a federal judge over a &#8220;devastating&#8221; January <a href=\"https:\/\/www.childrensrights.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Dwayne-B.-v.-Whitmer-ISEP-19-Report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a> that detailed the foster system&#8217;s shortcomings. The issues laid out in the report, however, seemingly have little to do with &#8220;sexual orientation&#8221; and &#8220;gender identity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In one case, two foster children were found wandering around a hotel unsupervised after the children&#8217;s caregiver asked an unnamed &#8220;male friend&#8221; to watch them. In another, a foster parent allowed a 12-year-old to supervise seven younger children\u2014including a blind and autistic 10-year-old and a 2-year-old\u2014while the foster parent left home to run an errand. The two-year-old twice left the house &#8220;dirty and without pants,&#8221; and police later described &#8220;deplorable conditions&#8221; at the foster home, such as &#8220;spoiled food and garbage strewn throughout, rabbit feces outside a rabbit cage, and child access to alcohol and pet food.&#8221; In both cases, the report states, Whitmer&#8217;s Children&#8217;s Services Agency did not find evidence to substantiate claims of &#8220;improper supervision.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Still, the September contract proposal expresses optimism that a focus on &#8220;Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion&#8221; will &#8220;encourage a culture shift,&#8221; increase &#8220;resources within child welfare of people who are marginalized,&#8221; and &#8220;create increased sensitivity on issues relating to the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, and Asexual (LGBTQIA+) population within Children&#8217;s Services.&#8221; Both Whitmer and Michigan&#8217;s Department of Health and Human Services did<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Months after a federal judge described the state of Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer\u2019s child foster care system as \u201cdevastating,\u201d the Democrat&#8217;s administration is turning to an atypical antidote: a &#8220;sexual orientation&#8221; and &#8220;gender identity&#8221; consultant.<br \/>\nThe post Gretchen Whitmer\u2019s Solution for Broken Child Welfare System: \u2018Sexual Orientation\u2019 and \u2018Gender Identity\u2019 Consulting appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1669237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1669237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1669237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1669237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1669237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1669237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1669237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}