“HHS, through ACF and the Assistant Secretary for Financial Resources (ASFR), should repeal the unnecessary 2016 regulation that imposes nonstatutory sexual orientation and gender identity nondiscrimination conditions on agency grants and return to the policy of maximizing the options for placing vulnerable children in their forever homes.”
Citation: Project 2025, Section 3.5: Department of Health and Human Services, Roger Severino, pages 509 and 510
Context:
In context, this is a mandate allowing adoption agencies to legally discriminate against same-sex couples who want to adopt, or against unmarried adoptive parents.
Full contextual analysis of Section 3.5: Department of Health and Human Services here.