Education and Kids

Strength In Weakness: Guy Hammond’s Program That Devastates LGBTQ Survivors

By replacing promises of becoming straight with demands for celibacy, SIW has avoided the label of conversion therapy and, so far, scrutiny.

Aug 15 • Sam Donndelinger and Hope Pisoni

Demoted and Doxed: What Happened When a Texas Librarian Fought to Keep LGBTQ Books on Her Shelves

Since 2021, there have been efforts across the U.S. to ban books about marginalized groups from libraries and schools. Amanda Hunt refused to stay…

Jul 25 • Jake Gordon and Sam Donndelinger

In the Middle of the Bible Belt, a Summer Camp Lets Trans Kids Exhale

Transcending Adolescence gives trans youth a place where their gender identity is understood, difficult questions are welcomed and adulthood feels…

Jul 18 • Sam Donndelinger

$360,000 and Counting: School Districts Are Spending Big Bucks to Fight Anti-Trans Lawsuits

Parents and advocates say coordinated complaints over transgender students are driving legal fees, security costs and emotional strain across Illinois…

Jun 16 • Sam Donndelinger and Violet Miller

‘150 Homes in 10 Years’: How the Foster Care System Fails Trans Kids

Transgender youth in foster care face abuse, instability and new federal policies that are making it even harder for them to feel safe.

Apr 11 • Sam Donndelinger

How Fox’s OutKick Relentlessly Targeted a Michigan Teen Girl

Dan Zaksheske has written 18 articles focused on a trans girl who plays high school volleyball. Why?

Dec 20, 2025 • Hope Pisoni

Teachers on the Frontlines of LGBTQ Erasure [WATCH]

Six LGBTQ and ally teachers from red and blue states speak with Uncloseted Media Founder Spencer Macnaughton about teaching in America in 2025.

Sep 27, 2025 • Spencer Macnaughton, Sam Donndelinger, and Taya Strauss

5 LGBTQ UVU Students Speak Out After Charlie Kirk's Murder

“I am extremely disappointed with how the media has been approaching this.”

Sep 20, 2025 • Spencer Macnaughton, Sam Donndelinger, and Taya Strauss

Gay Boys and Sex Trafficking: An Under-Resourced Epidemic

Boys make up half of sex trafficking survivors, but there is only one safe house in the country that serves them.

Aug 12, 2025 • Sam Donndelinger

‘Girl Scouts but Indoctrination’: A Christian Extremist Alternative

American Heritage Girls and Trail Life USA teach kids in all 50 states that homosexuality is sinful and that anything outside the gender binary is…

Aug 5, 2025 • Imogen Sayers

Biting, Throwing, Burning and Whipping Children Is Still Legal in Many Parts of the U.S. Why?

Under corporal punishment laws, parents can legally hit their children at home across the U.S. How does this impact LGBTQ youth?

Jul 29, 2025 • Spencer Macnaughton and Emma Paidra

Why Anti-Trans Hate Makes a Toxic Environment for Women Athletes

Earlier this year, 16-year-old AB Hernandez became the target of nationwide hate and harassment when the president of a local school board publicly…

Jul 22, 2025 • Hope Pisoni

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