A family made up of seven children and Black and transgender parents in Denver has been ripped apart by the Department of Human Services, according to a statement from Housekeys Action Network Denver, or HAND. The children were taken from their parents, Rehema Cranmer, and her partner, who is transgender, in June, HAND reported in a statement. HAND believes the family was discriminated against in court because the parents are homeless and one of them is transgender., the statement said “The testimony from the prosecution spoke clearly to rich white expectations of how families should live and educate their kids, presuming if a family can’t afford housing and must live in a van, that they should not be allowed to have kids period. And presuming that a Black and transgender family definitely cannot be trusted to care for their kids or much less homeschool them.”
