This is the sickest thing I've read today. Don't read it if you're feeling especially vulnerable. Do read it if you need rage fuel.
Our favorite fed covered this pretty well also Elan School: The Worst Troubled Teen Facility
Same content warning goes for this as well. Those places are so so so fucked.
Nothing quite makes me quiver with rage than these stories and the facilities they come from. And Amerifats have any nerve to suggest other nations are worse than them when they have literal government sponsored child kidnapping services. Fucked up country. Swear if my parents had tried this on me there would be bodies of people for having tried to stop me to escape.
Edit: “Relationship Restriction was often used to keep girls who were openly gay—or presumed gay—from communicating. It was like their preëmptive strike.” McKaila Aguiar, who was sent to the Lakeland Teen Challenge because she’d had a relationship with a girl, said that the directors told her homosexuality was “a detestable sin” that would prevent her from finding love and fulfillment.
In free countries you are free to be LGBTQ apparently