Transgender teen: 'My death needs to mean something'

[Iceweasel]

Well, I was born white, but I feel I might be black. No matter what I do, I will never be black, be on welfare and get reparation money. I want someone else to pay for my mortgage, free gas and free phone.

Well, Michael Jackson was born a poor black boy and ended up being a rich white woman. I suppose anything is possible.

 

[Silhouette]

Well, I was born white, but I feel I might be black. No matter what I do, I will never be black, be on welfare and get reparation money. I want someone else to pay for my mortgage, free gas and free phone.

Well, Michael Jackson was born a poor black boy and ended up being a rich white woman. I suppose anything is possible.

But seriously though...or should I say "Syriusly"? This boy dying from a farcical non-scientific psuedo-cult's (American Psychological Association and outbranchings like the erstwhile "AMA") cult edict is a crying shame. It needs to stop. And in this sense, most seriously, this boy's death SHOULD mean something..

 

[GreenBean]

Transgender teen: 'My death needs to mean something'
USA Today Network Sharon Coolidge, The Cincinnati Enquirer 4:17 p.m. EST December 30, 2014

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Editor's note: Leelah's suicide and the conversation her note inspired has rocked families in the Ohio region, becoming part of a national conversation. Here, we share the facts and report what happened.

In life, Leelah Alcorn felt alone. Born male, she feared she would never be the woman she felt like inside. In death, the transgender 17-year-old -- born Josh Alcorn -- wanted to make sure others never felt that way she did.

"The only way I will rest in peace is if one day transgender people aren't treated the way I was, they're treated like humans, with valid feelings and human rights," Alcorn wrote in a post on Tumblr.

Her parents, she wrote, wanted her to be a "perfect little straight Christian boy."

"My death needs to mean something," she wrote in the post, which she scheduled to appear the day after her death.

Her final public words: "Fix society. Please."

What a sad sad tragedy.

We've got to stop punishing people for no other reason than our own insecurities.

very sad that that young man's parents didn't get him the mental help he so obviously needed

SO Sad that LGBT activists have made it illegal to get him the help he needed -their desire is to keep perverts perverted.