Fostering Hate: Part II
Sounds Like Hate
Southern Poverty Law Center
4.6 • 688 Ratings
🗓️ 16 November 2021
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
In part II of “Fostering Hate,” we tell the stories of LGBTQ parents and children navigating a foster system with a history of anti-LGBTQ discrimination. Too often, foster parents are not adequately vetted or trained. In this episode, we meet LGBTQ people who have been deeply impacted by issues of bias, rejection and queer identity in the foster system – each of them ultimately connected by their desire for a chosen family where LGBTQ identities are accepted and celebrated. Children and families must be protected, not discriminated against in our system.
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| 0:00.0 | I was nine when I first told my mom like, hey, I think I like girls, like, and she wasn't with it. |
| 0:08.0 | Like, she was so like, you don't know that. You're too young. You don't know what you like. |
| 0:13.0 | It taught me two things. Number one, adults are not to be trusted. And number two, my own mind is not to be trusted. |
| 0:20.0 | You are not welcome here as you are. |
| 0:24.0 | If I'm a gay kid, why can't you place me in a gay home? That's beyond discrimination. That's just pure hatred. |
| 0:34.9 | This is season three of Sounds Like Hate, a podcast series from the Southern Poverty Law Center. |
| 0:41.3 | I'm Jamila Paxima. |
| 0:44.3 | And I'm Yvonne Laddie. |
| 0:47.3 | This season, we are examining the rights and lives of individuals who too often have difficulty being accepted for who they are. |
| 0:55.0 | People who still, despite decades of civil rights battles and triumphs, |
| 1:01.0 | are forced to continue to demand equal rights and protections promised to all Americans. |
| 1:07.0 | In this season, we travel to Arizona, Florida, Georgia, and Pennsylvania. |
| 1:12.6 | We will meet folks who say modern-day laws and policies continue to hold them down from living a life of full potential. |
| 1:21.6 | For some people, discrimination in hate is experienced in overt actions. |
| 1:26.6 | Other times, oppression is subversive and destructive. |
| 1:31.3 | These are the stories we've been investigating about individuals fighting for each other's rights. |
| 1:38.3 | In part two of fostering hate, we look at the lives and rights of LGBTQ foster kids who some say |
| 1:47.0 | experience hate in the form of public policy, a lack of understanding, and in equity in access |
| 1:54.0 | to serve the best interest of these disenfranchised children. |
| 1:58.0 | We will hear argument this morning, |
| 2:01.2 | Bolton versus City of Philadelphia. |
| 2:04.2 | In our last episode, we closely examined |
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