Families Sue Vermont After State Blocks Them From Fostering Children Because of Their Opposition to Gender Transitions 

Under Vermont’s current policy, the state can determine an applicant unfit to foster or adopt a child solely because of their religious views.

Alliance Defending Freedom
Katy Wuoti with one of her children. Alliance Defending Freedom

A group of foster parents is suing Vermont’s Department for Children and Families for blocking them from fostering children, despite a dire need in the state, after they expressed their religious opposition to child gender transitions. 

The suit, Wuoti v. Winters, was filed by Alliance Defending Freedom in the U.S. District Court at Vermont on Tuesday. It centers on the two couples — Pastor Brian Wuoti and his wife Katy, and Pastor Bryan Gantt and his wife Rebecca — who have adopted five children between them, including children with special needs, in the last ten years. 

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