When a teenager in Texas is pushed out of their home because of their sexual orientation or gender identity, foster care is supposed to help. It is meant to offer safety, stability, healing, and the chance to begin again. But … Continued
Over the course of filming two documentaries about the fathers of transgender and nonbinary children, Luchina Fisher has watched these families’ rights rapidly erode. “In [2023], we thought things were bad: we were having conversations around safety for our children,” … Continued
Editor’s Note: This story was produced by Public Health Watch and is republished here with permission. Throughout their two decades together, Kay and Brian raised their family and shared the ups and downs of daily life. She was an educator … Continued
This story was produced by Grist and co-published with the Texas Observer. On an unseasonably warm January day, Duff Hallman’s goats and sheep wandered unhurried through the rocky hills of his ranch 30 miles south of San Angelo, Texas, unbothered … Continued
The town of Castroville lies west of San Antonio, beyond rolling farmland, bounded on three sides by a cypress-shaded horseshoe of the Medina River—dry now from long drought—and on the fourth by a brushy escarpment. A single hill advances into … Continued
Editor’s Note: This story was originally reported by Candice Norwood of The 19th and is republished with permission. Read more of her reporting here on gender, politics, and policy. Every survivor of sexual assault is forced to make a calculation: … Continued