30% of Children in Foster Care Identify as LGBTQ. Here's one transgender teen's story in Virginia

Bob Brown - Times Dispatch

There are over 5,400 children in the Virginia foster care system, according to the state Department of Social Services’ website. Roughly 30% of children in foster care nationally identify as LGBTQ and are often kicked out of their biological homes, ending up in foster care because their biological parents didn’t accept their sexual identity.