As you may or may not know, a 17-year-old transgender,
Leelah Alcorn (#LeelahAlcorn), committed suicide by apparently stepping in
front of a speeding tractor trailer in Ohio this Sunday, 28-December-2014.
Born Joshua Alcorn, but like many gays was in the wrong body.
From the newspaper articles I’ve read and his suicide note (see bottom of this post), I assume that he had deeply religious
parents who could not accept the fact that their son was gay.
Her final message, which she scheduled to be posted after her
death read, “My death needs to mean something.”
This is really sick people, how can parents, family, and
associates turn such a blind eye to the suffering of our gay, lesbian, and
transgender kids that they take the ultimate step? While there are no definite
statistics regarding suicides by LGBT young adults, it is apparently much
higher than the straight world.
