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Trans teen suicide - LeeLah Alcorn

zombiekiller said:
If anything, this is a perfect example of why I am against religious doctrine. Christianity completely fails to teach people to love others and to accept diversity. Instead, it teaches people to hate disguised in politically correct terms, like love the sinner but hate the sin BS.

Even after death, Leelah's parents still refused to accept their daughter. They dressed her in a suit.

I'll die a happy man when all the superstitious nonsense are killed off and we can finally focus on love instead of the hate-filled religious dogma that christians spout.
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We know you don't like religion/religious people. Did you really need to use this thread to say it again?
 
I read of this sad news today on the A4A blog. I am deeply saddened that another beautiful child has taken her life. I sincerely hope she is at peace now.

This link is the story on the A4A blog. It contains her suicide note and the scheduled post to her tumblr account after her death.
 
She threw her life away when she was about to become an independent adult. Leelah's parents didn't kill her, she did that to herself.
 
Harke the Boeotarch said:
She threw her life away when she was about to become an independent adult. Leelah's parents didn't kill her, she did that to herself.
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There's no point victim blaming. She was a survivor of barbaric psychology treatments and constant bullying. The same thing that caused many gay people to kill themselves a few years ago and still does.
 
goldenmoth said:
There's no point victim blaming. She was a survivor of barbaric psychology treatments and constant bullying. The same thing that caused many gay people to kill themselves a few years ago and still does.
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Indeed. And those who refused to love her and accept her might just as well have tossed her in front of that truck.
 


Has anyone either seen this movie or read the book? It's about an overbearing Bible-thumping "Christian" mother who drives her son to suicide - he jumped off an overpass onto busy traffic. Racked with guilt, she was seen speaking out on behalf of LGBT kids. Maybe her penitence was genuine, but to me it looks like too little, too late. The serious wankers weren't going to attend her talks anyway.
 
I was touched by Leelah's short and tragic life story. I will be attending a memorial for her this Saturday at Columbus Circle/Central Park.
 
Cincinnati Councilman Chris Seelbach's remarks on Leelah Alcorn & Suicide among LGBTQIA people.

 
Sara Gilbert: ‘It’s more important to let go of the idea that you have a son, than to lose your child’

On Dec. 29, Leelah Alcorn, a transgender teen from Ohio, stepped into the path of an oncoming semi truck on a interstate highway, leaving behind a suicide note describing having felt “like a girl trapped in a boy’s body” since she was four, and how her parents pushed her into conversion therapy and Christian counseling.

Today, “The Talk” discusses teen suicide:

“I would just say to people out there who have different beliefs … just think it’s more important to let go of the idea that you have a son, than to lose your child,” says openly gay co-host Sara Gilbert.

Watch: http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2015/01/...-that-you-have-a-son-than-to-lose-your-child/
 
Over the years I have seen crimes reported where a parent is convicted of killing their child and the sentence is reduced because "they've already lost so much and they have to live with what they've done for the rest of their lives."

I always thought that sort of thinking was grotesquely stupid, because parents need to be accountable for their actions as well.

When a parent harangues their child into committing suicide, I have no problem accusing that parent of murder, torture, child abuse, all of the above perhaps. Certainly it is proper social commentary, it is proper to say it to their faces, and in many cases it is probably a proper legal charge as well.
 
miaedu said:
Cincinnati Councilman Chris Seelbach's remarks on Leelah Alcorn & Suicide among LGBTQIA people.

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Very touching!

bankside said:
Over the years I have seen crimes reported where a parent is convicted of killing their child and the sentence is reduced because "they've already lost so much and they have to live with what they've done for the rest of their lives."

I always thought that sort of thinking was grotesquely stupid, because parents need to be accountable for their actions as well.

When a parent harangues their child into committing suicide, I have no problem accusing that parent of murder, torture, child abuse, all of the above perhaps. Certainly it is proper social commentary, it is proper to say it to their faces, and in many cases it is probably a proper legal charge as well.
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Spot on!
 
One of my favorite parts of last nights GG awards was when Transparent Executive Producer Jill Soloway dedicated the shows win for Best Television Series (Comedy or Musical) to Leelah.
 
Last night, I woke up in the middle of the night to my boyfriend crying in his sleep again. It's been a few months since I last saw this.

My boyfriend tells me he has no memory of crying whenever I bring it up. I am convinced that the crying in his sleep is a result of trauma from being kicked out of the house when he was 15. I know when I was 15 I was still emotionally attached to my parents. Terrifying thought of me being kicked out of the house at such a young age. And it happened to my boyfriend.

Anyway, I bring this up now because I just realized how lucky we are that my boyfriend survived his parents' christian ignorance.
 
It's sad she/he committed suicide, but also a little turned off that she basically wrote a note saying, "I'm killing myself now, better put this on the news!" Either way, she needed help, and obviously wasn't getting it.
 
MrPerfectMan said:
It's sad she/he committed suicide, but also a little turned off that she basically wrote a note saying, "I'm killing myself now, better put this on the news!" Either way, she needed help, and obviously wasn't getting it.
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I don't expect rational behaviour from most people about to kill themselves. People dying of cancer who fly to Switzerland? Sure. But Leelah's no exception to the general rule.
 
It was nice to see a large turnout at the vigil. That evening was very frigid and we all fought the freezing temps till the end for Leelah.
 
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