SAFE Home Act

HR 3247, the SAFE Home Act, requires federally funded adoption and foster care agencies to stop delaying or denying placements for children based on a parent's choices related to a child's biological sex. It directly affects these agencies and prospective adoptive/foster parents who: (1) raise children consistent with their biological sex, (2) refuse medical treatments to alter a child's sex appearance or perception, or (3) decline to change official documents to reflect gender identity. The bill prohibits such actions by defining "sex" biologically (male/female based on reproductive systems) and banning discrimination in placement decisions for those reasons. It applies to all entities receiving federal foster care/adoptions assistance and takes effect for payments starting after its enactment.