She studies LGBTQ sexuality and gender, youth and schooling, and sexual health education. She has edited special issues of the journal Sex Education, one on the failure of abstinence-only sex education and another on trans youth in education, coedited with Julia Sinclair-Palm. She is author of Sexuality in School: The Limits of Education (University of Minnesota Press, 2014), winner of the AERA Division B (curriculum) Outstanding Book Award. With Sharon Lamb, she is coediting The Cambridge Handbook of Sexual Development: Childhood and Adolescence. Her current research explores discourses of consent in sexual health education.