FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The White House has weighed an executive order that would stop Child Protective Services from taking children away from parents who refuse to accept their child’s so-called gender identity, several sources involved with the order told The Daily Signal.

A conservative coalition led by parental rights activist Erin Friday has met with the White House’s Domestic Policy Council to work on a directive establishing that parents should not risk losing custody of their children if they don’t affirm their child’s chosen transgender identity, Friday and other coalition members told The Daily Signal.

The coalition has provided detailed recommendations on the executive order and is urging the president to act quickly. In addition to the executive order, members of the coalition told The Daily Signal they are lobbying Congress to hold a hearing featuring parents who have lost their kids to gender ideology, as well as pass a bill similar to the executive order.

In November, Trump signed an executive order supporting foster youth, but the order didn’t address children being placed in the foster care system due to gender identity, or foster parents........

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