Trump’s latest attack on the LGBTQ+ community could soon turn away prospective foster parents because they are gay, lesbian, bisexual, or trans. The rule would remove language protecting LGBTQ+ people and others from discrimination in foster care and adoption programs funded by grants from the Department of Health and Human Services.

Under this proposed rule, faith-based foster care and adoption agencies would continue getting taxpayer funding even if they exclude LGBTQ+ families and others from their services based on religious beliefs.

There are more than 400,000 children in the US foster care system, including 114,000 who can’t be returned to their families and need to be adopted. This rule change will not only add further harm to those facing discrimination everyday, it will block children from access to qualified, loving homes.

But that’s not all: according to the ACLU, additional programs under the proposed HHS rule change will also be affected. Meals on Wheels and other HHS-funded community meal programs designed to support older adults could refuse to deliver food to older Americans who are Jewish, Muslim, or LGBTQ+. Additionally, Head Start grant recipients and other federally funded child care facilities could refuse to serve transgender youth and children with LGBTQ+ parents.

Trump’s discrimination not only affects LGBTQ+ people, but harms children and elderly people as well. When will these attacks on our most vulnerable communities stop?

We must demand Congress to intervene. We cannot allow this blatant attack on LGBTQ+ rights to continue. Congress must block Trump’s attempts at harming Americans in the name of religious freedom.