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If you are reading this, it means that I have committed suicide and obviously failed to delete this post from my queue Please don't be sad, it's for the better. The life I would've lived isn't worth living in... because I'm transgender. I could go into detail explaining why I feel that way, but this note is probably going to be lengthy enough as it is. To put it simply, I feel like a girl trapped in a boy's body, and I've felt that way ever since I was 4. I never knew there was a word for that feeling, nor was it possible for a boy to become a girl, so I never told anyone and I just continued to do tradionally "boyish" things to try to fit in. When I was 14, I learned what transgender meant and cried of happiness. After 10 years of confusion I finally understood who I was. I immediately told my mom, and she reacted extremely negatively telling me that it was a phase, that I would never truly be a girl, that God doesn't make mistakes, that I am wrong. If you are reading this, parents, please don't tell this to your kids. Even if you are Christian or are against transgender people don't ever say that to someone, especially your kid. That won't do anything but make them hate them self. That's exactly what it did to me My mom started taking me to a therapist, but would only take me to christian therapists, (who were all very biased) so I never actually got the therapy I needed to cure me of my depression. I only got more christians telling me that I was selfish and wrong and that I should look to God for help When I was 16 I realized that my parents would never come around, and that I would have to wait until I was 18 to start any sort of transitioning treatment, which absolutely broke my heart. The longer you wait, the harder it is to transition. I felt hopeless, that I was just going to look like a man in drag for the rest of my life. On my 16th birthday, when I didn't receive consent from my parents to start transitioning, I cried myself to sleep I formed a sort of a "f--- you" attitude towards my parents and came out as gay at school, thinking that maybe if I eased into coming out as trans it would be less of a shock. Although the reaction from my friends was positive, my parents were p-----. They felt like I was attacking their image, and thatI was an embarrassment to them. They wanted me to be their perfect little straight christian bo nd out for any sort of social media, completely isolating me from my friends. This was probably the part of my life when I was the most de 5 months. No friends, no support, no love. Just my parent's disappointment and the cruelty of loneliness sed, and I'm surprised I didn't kill myself. I was completely alone for At the end of the school year, my parents finally came around and gave me my phone and let me back on social media. I was excited, I finally had my friends back. They were extremely excited to see me and talk to me, but only at first. Eventually they realized they didn't actually give a s--- about me and I felt even lonelier than I did before. The only friends I thought I had only liked me because they saw me five times a week. After a summer of having almost no friends plus the weight of having to think about college, save money for moving out, keep my grades up, go to church each week and feel like s--- because e the nst everything I live for, I have decided I've had enough. I'm never going to with the way I look or transition successfully, even when I move out. I'm never g to be ha gh friends to satisfy me. I'm n a man w me rest of my life as a lonely man who wishes he were a woman or I live my life as a lonelier woman who hates herself. There's no winning. There's no way out. I'm sad enough already, I don't need my life to get any worse. People say "it gets better" but that isn't true in my case. It gets worse. Each day I get worse That's the gist of it, that's why I feel like killing myself. Sorry if that's not a good enough reason for it's mo mv m way I was, the humans, with valid feelings and human rights. Gender needs to be taught about in schools, the earlier the better. My death needs to mea something. My death needs to be counted in the number of transgender people who commit suicide this year. I want s Please ne to look at that number and say "that's f----- up and fix it. Fix society Goodbye (Leelah) Jesh Alcorn
If you are reading this, it means that I have committed suicide and obviously failed to delete this post from my queue Please don't be sad, it's for the better. The life I would've lived isn't worth living in... because I'm transgender. I could go into detail explaining why I feel that way, but this note is probably going to be lengthy enough as it is. To put it simply, I feel like a girl trapped in a boy's body, and I've felt that way ever since I was 4. I never knew there was a word for that feeling, nor was it possible for a boy to become a girl, so I never told anyone and I just continued to do tradionally "boyish" things to try to fit in. When I was 14, I learned what transgender meant and cried of happiness. After 10 years of confusion I finally understood who I was. I immediately told my mom, and she reacted extremely negatively telling me that it was a phase, that I would never truly be a girl, that God doesn't make mistakes, that I am wrong. If you are reading this, parents, please don't tell this to your kids. Even if you are Christian or are against transgender people don't ever say that to someone, especially your kid. That won't do anything but make them hate them self. That's exactly what it did to me My mom started taking me to a therapist, but would only take me to christian therapists, (who were all very biased) so I never actually got the therapy I needed to cure me of my depression. I only got more christians telling me that I was selfish and wrong and that I should look to God for help When I was 16 I realized that my parents would never come around, and that I would have to wait until I was 18 to start any sort of transitioning treatment, which absolutely broke my heart. The longer you wait, the harder it is to transition. I felt hopeless, that I was just going to look like a man in drag for the rest of my life. On my 16th birthday, when I didn't receive consent from my parents to start transitioning, I cried myself to sleep I formed a sort of a "f--- you" attitude towards my parents and came out as gay at school, thinking that maybe if I eased into coming out as trans it would be less of a shock. Although the reaction from my friends was positive, my parents were p-----. They felt like I was attacking their image, and thatI was an embarrassment to them. They wanted me to be their perfect little straight christian bo nd out for any sort of social media, completely isolating me from my friends. This was probably the part of my life when I was the most de 5 months. No friends, no support, no love. Just my parent's disappointment and the cruelty of loneliness sed, and I'm surprised I didn't kill myself. I was completely alone for At the end of the school year, my parents finally came around and gave me my phone and let me back on social media. I was excited, I finally had my friends back. They were extremely excited to see me and talk to me, but only at first. Eventually they realized they didn't actually give a s--- about me and I felt even lonelier than I did before. The only friends I thought I had only liked me because they saw me five times a week. After a summer of having almost no friends plus the weight of having to think about college, save money for moving out, keep my grades up, go to church each week and feel like s--- because e the nst everything I live for, I have decided I've had enough. I'm never going to with the way I look or transition successfully, even when I move out. I'm never g to be ha gh friends to satisfy me. I'm n a man w me rest of my life as a lonely man who wishes he were a woman or I live my life as a lonelier woman who hates herself. There's no winning. There's no way out. I'm sad enough already, I don't need my life to get any worse. People say "it gets better" but that isn't true in my case. It gets worse. Each day I get worse That's the gist of it, that's why I feel like killing myself. Sorry if that's not a good enough reason for it's mo mv m way I was, the humans, with valid feelings and human rights. Gender needs to be taught about in schools, the earlier the better. My death needs to mea something. My death needs to be counted in the number of transgender people who commit suicide this year. I want s Please ne to look at that number and say "that's f----- up and fix it. Fix society Goodbye (Leelah) Jesh Alcorn

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epiclessness December 31st 2014, 1:30:03 pm 7 hours ago % 21* 回:4GUE .411 17% 1:27 PM Like Comment Share #LeelahAlcorn . Trending 59 Fox 59 WXIN Indianapolis 2 hrs e When she turned 14, #LeelahAlcorn said she found out about the possibility of being transgender and “cried of happiness." Her happiness quickly turned to sadness, she said, when she wasn't accepted Ohio transgender teen pleads in suicide note: My death needs to mean something fox59.com kes 586 Comments Like Comment Share Its a damn shame fox uses correct pronoun 荆eelah alcorn #rip 20,234 notes s and her own damn parents couldnt

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dig.-wears.goggles queenburd December 31st 2014, 8:28:49 am 6 hours ago Source: mememas R.I.P Leelah Alcorn Ew mememas. Leelah Alcorn was a 17 year old transgender woman artist. She grew up in a very religious Christian family. When she came out as trangender to her parents they told her it was a phase and sent her to therapy. The therapies they sent her to were religious ones that told her things like god makes no mistakes, told her she was selfish, and that the only way to cure depression was to follow gods path. She came out as "gay" at school so people wouldn't be as shocked when she came out as trans. Her friends were accepting but her parents called her an embarrassment. They took away all electronics for 5 months and kicked her out of public school. She was an artist. he drawing above was drawn by her She committed suicide on December 29th due to the transphobia caused by her family. Please remember her and the other transgender people how lose their lives to transphobia Link to her tumblr (warning that it contains her suicide note and sensitive materiel) Link to news article R.I.P LEELAH ALCORN #1 dont even know what to tag this with but even if you think your child is going through a phase #don't treat them this way 271,582 notes
dig.-wears.goggles queenburd December 31st 2014, 8:28:49 am 6 hours ago Source: mememas R.I.P Leelah Alcorn Ew mememas. Leelah Alcorn was a 17 year old transgender woman artist. She grew up in a very religious Christian family. When she came out as trangender to her parents they told her it was a phase and sent her to therapy. The therapies they sent her to were religious ones that told her things like god makes no mistakes, told her she was selfish, and that the only way to cure depression was to follow gods path. She came out as "gay" at school so people wouldn't be as shocked when she came out as trans. Her friends were accepting but her parents called her an embarrassment. They took away all electronics for 5 months and kicked her out of public school. She was an artist. he drawing above was drawn by her She committed suicide on December 29th due to the transphobia caused by her family. Please remember her and the other transgender people how lose their lives to transphobia Link to her tumblr (warning that it contains her suicide note and sensitive materiel) Link to news article R.I.P LEELAH ALCORN #1 dont even know what to tag this with but even if you think your child is going through a phase #don't treat them this way 271,582 notes

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Brianna Wu @Spacekatgal 12h It's utterly unconscionable the way we treat transgender people as gamers. The transphobia of Gamergate particularly shows how s----- we are £747 ★83 View conversation Brianna Wu @Spacekatgal 12h Heartbreaking sulcide note from a transgender woman who wanted a life with dignity. I've read so many just like it. lazerprincess.tumblr.com/post/106447705 £7140 ★68 View summary
Brianna Wu @Spacekatgal 12h It's utterly unconscionable the way we treat transgender people as gamers. The transphobia of Gamergate particularly shows how s----- we are £747 ★83 View conversation Brianna Wu @Spacekatgal 12h Heartbreaking sulcide note from a transgender woman who wanted a life with dignity. I've read so many just like it. lazerprincess.tumblr.com/post/106447705 £7140 ★68 View summary

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Carla Wood Alcorn December 28 at 1:56pm My sweet 16 year old son, Joshua Ryan Alcorn went home to heaven this morning. He was out for an early morning walk and was hit by a truck. Thank you for the messages and kindness and concern you have sent our way Please continue to keep us in your prayers Share Transgender teen commits suicide, cites Christian parents in blog - December 29, 2014 by Michael Stone After years of abuse and rejection from strict Christian parents, an Ohio transgender teen commits suicide by stepping in front of a moving tractor trailer truck. Leelah Alcorn, also known as Joshua Alcorn, was struck and killed by a passing semitrailer on southbound Interstate 71 in Union Township Sunday morning. The tragic event appears not to have been an accident, but a suicide On her blog at Tumblr, Leelah left a poignant suicide note, detailing a life of pain and rejection, a life dominated by Christian parents who refused to understand, or simply could not understand, that their precious child was a female trapped in the body of a male In her final blog post Leelah writes If you are reading this, it means that I have committed suicide and obviously failed to delete this post from my queue One of these things is not like the other RIP Leelah Alcorn 246,930 notes
Carla Wood Alcorn December 28 at 1:56pm My sweet 16 year old son, Joshua Ryan Alcorn went home to heaven this morning. He was out for an early morning walk and was hit by a truck. Thank you for the messages and kindness and concern you have sent our way Please continue to keep us in your prayers Share Transgender teen commits suicide, cites Christian parents in blog - December 29, 2014 by Michael Stone After years of abuse and rejection from strict Christian parents, an Ohio transgender teen commits suicide by stepping in front of a moving tractor trailer truck. Leelah Alcorn, also known as Joshua Alcorn, was struck and killed by a passing semitrailer on southbound Interstate 71 in Union Township Sunday morning. The tragic event appears not to have been an accident, but a suicide On her blog at Tumblr, Leelah left a poignant suicide note, detailing a life of pain and rejection, a life dominated by Christian parents who refused to understand, or simply could not understand, that their precious child was a female trapped in the body of a male In her final blog post Leelah writes If you are reading this, it means that I have committed suicide and obviously failed to delete this post from my queue One of these things is not like the other RIP Leelah Alcorn 246,930 notes

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Carla Wood Alcorn December 28 at 1:56pm e My sweet 16 year old son, Joshua Ryan Alcorn went home to heaven this morning. He was out for an early morning walk and was hit by a truck. Thank you for the messages and kindness and concern you have sent our way Please continue to keep us in your prayers. Share Transgender teen commits suicide, cites Christian parents in blog After years of abuse and rejection from strict Christian parents, an Ohio transgender teen commits suicide by stepping in front of a moving tractor trailer truck. Leelah Alcorn, also known as Joshua Alcorn, was struck and killed by a passing semitrailer on southbound Interstate 71 in Union Township Sunday morning. The tragic event appears not to have been an accident, but a suicide On her blog at Tumblr, Leelah left a poignant suicide note, detailing a life of pain and rejection, a life dominated by Christian parents who refused to understand, or simply could not understand, that their precious child was a female trapped in the body of a ma In her final blog post Leelah writes If you are reading this, it means that I have committed suicide and obviously failed to delete this post from my queue. brinconvenient: feminist-space arxx: writingrainbow: One of these things is not like the other RIP Leelah Alcorn This is so f----- u One of these things is not like the other RIP Leelah Alcorn This is so f----- up This makes me so angry. She dishonors Leelah's identify and memory even in death, pulls attention to herself as the grieving parent, and clearly still doesn't get that it is her actions and treatments that pushed Leelah to take that step RIP Leelah Alcorn. God dammit! OK, listen up, my dear trans babies. I know that you're hurting Probably hurting a lot like Leelah was, but I want you to see two things here Leelah committed suicide because she couldn't see any way to escape. Her voice was actively silence and her story ignored in favor of a fantasy that her parents wrote She felt powerless, alone and afraid. That's because her parents WANTED that for her to make her feel like the only choice available to her was to conform to their narrative. She found a different choice, but one that ultimately gave her parents the final control over her story, her life, and now, her death She realized she couldn't begin transition until she was at least 18 and legally responsible for her own medical care, and someone gave her the terrible, wrongheaded and dangerous belief that that was TOO LATE to transition and "pass" and find love She was wrong. I know many gorgeous and happy trans men women who transitioned in their 20s, 30s, 40s and later and have found the life they always wanted. Please don't internalize that b------- that your chances to transition end at 18 or 21 or 25 or 30 or whatever. It's never too late. Never But the real lesson I want you to take from Leelah's death here is that she's gone, forever, and even though she did everything she could to make sure that her story was known and heard by queueing up that post, her mother is still ignoring all of that for this f------ b------- narrative she made up about her darling SON accidentally being hit by a truck on a morning walk, instead of facing the fact that her daughter committed suicide because she saw no other way out. If you're feeling like Leelah, alone, afraid, powerless and like there's a ticking clock counting down your chance to transition, please know that there is no peace in There is no guarantee that your suicide will make anyone see anything they don't want to. This mother is still willfully and actively ignoring, denying and mythologizing her child's life and death. Leelah has finally lost her voice forever. The news articles will fade, the tumblr posts will vanish, and this horrid person will be telling tales about the tragic accident that took her son from her until the day she dies. Her suicide solved nothing for her. She will never see the amazing woman she'd have grown up to be. And neither will her mother The only chance you have to be the narrator of your own story is to stay alive, get out, get away, find your power, find your voice, find your real family - the people who know you and see you for who you are, people who hear you when you tell your story, people who will defend and protect you at all costs. We are here, waiting for you with our arms and our hearts open. Please, I know you're in a terrible and seemingly unbearable place and environment. The only comfort I can offer is that the world doesn't stop turning, time doesn't stop and this moment isn't the last moment. Please find a way to bide your time, to hold on for one more day, one more hour, one more minute, though it seems eternal, this moment is temporary I can't guarantee your future happiness or that your life will be easy, but none of us, trans or cis, get any such guarantee. The only guarantee you get is that if you kill yourself, you'll NEVER have the chance to find and build a happy life Every storm passes, every rain cloud moves on, and nothing in this world is permanent. This pain of your present will become the aches of your past. Please stay alive. Please hold on until you can escape from there and come home Our light is on and our door is open http://www.translifeline
Carla Wood Alcorn December 28 at 1:56pm e My sweet 16 year old son, Joshua Ryan Alcorn went home to heaven this morning. He was out for an early morning walk and was hit by a truck. Thank you for the messages and kindness and concern you have sent our way Please continue to keep us in your prayers. Share Transgender teen commits suicide, cites Christian parents in blog After years of abuse and rejection from strict Christian parents, an Ohio transgender teen commits suicide by stepping in front of a moving tractor trailer truck. Leelah Alcorn, also known as Joshua Alcorn, was struck and killed by a passing semitrailer on southbound Interstate 71 in Union Township Sunday morning. The tragic event appears not to have been an accident, but a suicide On her blog at Tumblr, Leelah left a poignant suicide note, detailing a life of pain and rejection, a life dominated by Christian parents who refused to understand, or simply could not understand, that their precious child was a female trapped in the body of a ma In her final blog post Leelah writes If you are reading this, it means that I have committed suicide and obviously failed to delete this post from my queue. brinconvenient: feminist-space arxx: writingrainbow: One of these things is not like the other RIP Leelah Alcorn This is so f----- u One of these things is not like the other RIP Leelah Alcorn This is so f----- up This makes me so angry. She dishonors Leelah's identify and memory even in death, pulls attention to herself as the grieving parent, and clearly still doesn't get that it is her actions and treatments that pushed Leelah to take that step RIP Leelah Alcorn. God dammit! OK, listen up, my dear trans babies. I know that you're hurting Probably hurting a lot like Leelah was, but I want you to see two things here Leelah committed suicide because she couldn't see any way to escape. Her voice was actively silence and her story ignored in favor of a fantasy that her parents wrote She felt powerless, alone and afraid. That's because her parents WANTED that for her to make her feel like the only choice available to her was to conform to their narrative. She found a different choice, but one that ultimately gave her parents the final control over her story, her life, and now, her death She realized she couldn't begin transition until she was at least 18 and legally responsible for her own medical care, and someone gave her the terrible, wrongheaded and dangerous belief that that was TOO LATE to transition and "pass" and find love She was wrong. I know many gorgeous and happy trans men women who transitioned in their 20s, 30s, 40s and later and have found the life they always wanted. Please don't internalize that b------- that your chances to transition end at 18 or 21 or 25 or 30 or whatever. It's never too late. Never But the real lesson I want you to take from Leelah's death here is that she's gone, forever, and even though she did everything she could to make sure that her story was known and heard by queueing up that post, her mother is still ignoring all of that for this f------ b------- narrative she made up about her darling SON accidentally being hit by a truck on a morning walk, instead of facing the fact that her daughter committed suicide because she saw no other way out. If you're feeling like Leelah, alone, afraid, powerless and like there's a ticking clock counting down your chance to transition, please know that there is no peace in There is no guarantee that your suicide will make anyone see anything they don't want to. This mother is still willfully and actively ignoring, denying and mythologizing her child's life and death. Leelah has finally lost her voice forever. The news articles will fade, the tumblr posts will vanish, and this horrid person will be telling tales about the tragic accident that took her son from her until the day she dies. Her suicide solved nothing for her. She will never see the amazing woman she'd have grown up to be. And neither will her mother The only chance you have to be the narrator of your own story is to stay alive, get out, get away, find your power, find your voice, find your real family - the people who know you and see you for who you are, people who hear you when you tell your story, people who will defend and protect you at all costs. We are here, waiting for you with our arms and our hearts open. Please, I know you're in a terrible and seemingly unbearable place and environment. The only comfort I can offer is that the world doesn't stop turning, time doesn't stop and this moment isn't the last moment. Please find a way to bide your time, to hold on for one more day, one more hour, one more minute, though it seems eternal, this moment is temporary I can't guarantee your future happiness or that your life will be easy, but none of us, trans or cis, get any such guarantee. The only guarantee you get is that if you kill yourself, you'll NEVER have the chance to find and build a happy life Every storm passes, every rain cloud moves on, and nothing in this world is permanent. This pain of your present will become the aches of your past. Please stay alive. Please hold on until you can escape from there and come home Our light is on and our door is open http://www.translifeline

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Janet Mock @janetmock Leelah's note checked parents on intolerance, challenged medical gatekeepers, highlighted power of social media & upheld self-determination. わt ★ … 2,146 1,740 7:43 AM -30 Dec 2014 RETWEETS FAVORITES
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