Editing Outing (section)

==Criticism==
Outing can be damaging or life-threatening to those with unsupportive families.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-03-22 |title=Transgender youth: 'Forced outing' bills make schools unsafe |url=https://apnews.com/article/transgender-students-pronouns-names-ec0b2c5de329d82c563ffb95262935f3 |access-date=2023-05-12 |website=AP NEWS |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Austen |first1=Andrea |last2=Wellington |first2=Adrian Alex |date=January 1995 |title=Outing: The Supposed Justifications |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/canadian-journal-of-law-and-jurisprudence/article/abs/outing-the-supposed-justifications/289C8A8E92263623E2B1F64764D114F8 |journal=Canadian Journal of Law & Jurisprudence |language=en |volume=8 |issue=1 |pages=83–105 |doi=10.1017/S084182090000309X |s2cid=157003926 |issn=0841-8209|url-access=subscription }}</ref> In response to a North Carolina bill that could out children to parents under the school system, various mental health experts warned of the potential damage, which could be life-threatening.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-02-02 |title=Experts warn NC bill could harm LGBTQ youth mental health |url=https://apnews.com/article/sex-education-north-carolina-health-schools-cdebec08a9a508ca5ca1218d367841a9 |access-date=2023-05-12 |website=AP NEWS |language=en}}</ref>

After several Moroccans were outed from using gay dating apps, the [[Human Rights Watch]] requested that the Moroccan government do more to protect their LGBTQ community, as many of them were facing abuse and discrimination.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2020-04-27 |title=Gay men abused in Morocco after photos spread online |language=en-GB |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-52446170 |access-date=2023-05-12}}</ref>

Outing is dangerous in various Islamic countries where the LGBTQ community faces discrimination or death from outings, resulting in many LGBTQ refugees to Western countries.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Kligerman |first=Nicole |date=March 28, 2007 |title=Homosexuality in Islam: A Difficult Paradox |journal=Macalester Islam Journal |volume=2 |issue=3 |pages=53–64}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Kakissis |first=Joanna |date=January 5, 2018 |title=Chechnya's LGBT Muslim Refugees Struggle To Cope In Exile |url=https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2018/01/05/572985673/chechnyas-lgbt-muslim-refugees-struggle-to-cope-in-exile |access-date=May 12, 2023 |website=NPR}}</ref>

Roger Rosenblatt argued in his January 1993 ''[[New York Times Magazine]]'' essay "Who Killed Privacy?" that, "The practice of 'outing' homosexuals implies contradictorily that homosexuals have a right to private choice but not to private lives."<ref name="Signorile, p. 80" /> In March 2002, singer [[Will Young]] revealed he was gay, pre-empting a tabloid newspaper (reportedly ''[[News of the World]]'') that was preparing to out him.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Boggan|first1=Steve|title=A pop idol, a rumour and why he felt he had to come out|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/a-pop-idol-a-rumour-and-why-he-felt-he-had-to-come-out-9210510.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220524/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/a-pop-idol-a-rumour-and-why-he-felt-he-had-to-come-out-9210510.html |archive-date=2022-05-24 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|access-date=18 March 2018|work=[[The Guardian]]|date=11 March 2002}}</ref>

[[Christine Jorgensen]], [[Beth Elliott]], [[Renée Richards]], [[Sandy Stone (artist)|Sandy Stone]], [[Billy Tipton]], [[Alan L. Hart]], [[April Ashley]], [[Caroline Cossey]] ("Tula"), [[Jahna Steele]],  were outed as transsexuals by European or American media or, in the case of Billy Tipton, by his [[coroner]]. In many cases, being outed had an adverse effect on their personal lives and their careers.

In some cases well-known celebrities have been outed as [[transgender]] or [[intersexuality|intersex]] when no proof to substantiate the claims was presented, e.g., [[Jamie Lee Curtis]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.snopes.com/movies/actors/jamie.htm |title=Jamie Lee Curtis rumor |date=6 April 2001 |publisher=snopes.com |access-date=2013-11-02}}</ref>