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Transgender teen's suicide note: ‘My death needs to mean something’
Yahoo ^ | 12/31 | Michael Walsh

Posted on 12/31/2014 7:26:36 AM PST by TangledUpInBlue

The suicide of a transgender teen is catching national attention in part because of a suicide note she left behind online.

Leelah Alcorn, 17, of Kings Mills, Ohio, was struck and killed by a tractor-trailer on I-71 about 2:30 a.m. on Sunday, according to local media.

Posthumous posts started to appear on her Tumblr page, titled “Lazer Princess,” including her suicide note and a post apologizing to her closest friends.

“My death needs to mean something,” she wrote. “My death needs to be counted in the number of transgender people who commit suicide this year. I want someone to look at that number and say ‘that’s f---ed up’ and fix it. Fix society. Please.”

Alcorn's note explains that she has felt like a girl trapped in a boy’s body ever since she was 4. Then she cried tears of joy when she learned what transgender meant at 14.

“After 10 years of confusion I finally understood who I was,” the suicide note reads. “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.”

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: crossdresser; education; freak; freakyfreak; gaynewsrooms; grooming; homosexualagenda; joshalcorn; kingsmills; lavendermafia; leelah; leelahalcorn; mentalillness; ohio; pinkjournalism; pravdamedia; sexpositiveagenda; suicide; teensuicide; transgender; transvestite
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To: Boogieman
Yes, they are crazy, and they still haven’t managed to intimidate the APA into removed

The perverts did no such thing as the normal human thing, to persuade, or intimidate.

They successfully used the oldest war tactic in history : the Trojan Horse
They simply successfully took over a useful profession over a generation or two.

141 posted on 12/31/2014 9:32:11 AM PST by publius911 (Formerly Publius6961)
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To: Gaffer

“I have a wife, a daughter and three grand daughters. I’m gonna check them for a sample....”

I was going to suggest that. Otherwise go on a search engine and look for images of male and female hands.


142 posted on 12/31/2014 9:32:18 AM PST by Stormdog (A rifle transforms one from subject to Citizen)
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To: Stormdog

That would be great knowledge to pass down to a male heir. Invaluable.


143 posted on 12/31/2014 9:35:37 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: TangledUpInBlue

Two different symptoms of mental illness and/or extreme depression/confusion or drug use. The gender confusion and the suicide are BOTH symptoms. Of what? A thinking person without a political agenda would have had to know her to say.


144 posted on 12/31/2014 9:36:03 AM PST by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: ilgipper
Sounds mean, but I meant to write something similar.

Frankly, my belief is that the kid was confused, but I think it's the culture of the past 14 years or so that's confusing the hell out of them. Everything is ok? No it isn't, but it'll take you a long time to figure that out if you go through everything to find out what most of us could have told you from the get-go without sending you off to find yourself ... before you pull a Columbus and find yourself somewhere else and think you're where you were supposed to be.

145 posted on 12/31/2014 9:36:27 AM PST by Tanniker Smith (Rome didn't fall in a day, either.)
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To: publius911

There were some gay psychiatrists involved in the push, but in 1973, when the change happened, they were a small minority.


146 posted on 12/31/2014 9:46:09 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: Stormdog
A male’s ring finger is longer than the index finger. A female’s index finger is longer than the ring finger.

Not true. I am looking at my hand and I tell you---this is not true. Yes, I can also open a tight lid. I am totally and completely female.

147 posted on 12/31/2014 9:47:35 AM PST by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheelbarrow)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
More projection.
My death needs to be counted in the number of transgender people who commit suicide this year. I want someone to look at that number and say "that's f---ed up" and fix it. Fix society. Please.
The way to fix society is to rid it of "transgender" and other idiotic idealogies and perversions.
148 posted on 12/31/2014 9:50:02 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Irenic

“Not true. I am looking at my hand and I tell you-—this is not true. Yes, I can also open a tight lid. I am totally and completely female.”

I’m not doubting you. Maybe I should qualify it as a “general” rule.


149 posted on 12/31/2014 9:55:59 AM PST by Stormdog (A rifle transforms one from subject to Citizen)
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To: TangledUpInBlue
Homosexuality itself is a form of suicide. No surprise here.
150 posted on 12/31/2014 9:57:57 AM PST by Desron13
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To: TangledUpInBlue

No, Ryan, the only thing your suicide changed was the poor truck driver’s life who now has to deal with your stupidity and selfishness the rest of his life.


151 posted on 12/31/2014 10:02:52 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: sr4402

One of the things the article mentioned is that both the parents are Christians. It doesn’t say what ‘flavor’ of Christianity they are.

It sounded like all they did was just ridicule him and tell him he was wrong. It doesn’t appear they ever attempted to get him the help he needed.

Also, here’s a question: Suppose the parents of a gender-confused child DO get him help. However, after moths, if not years of therapy, the child absolutely refuses to acknowledge their proper gender. What should be done then?


152 posted on 12/31/2014 10:14:52 AM PST by hoagy62 ("Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered..."-Thomas Paine. 1776)
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To: hoagy62

moths= months


153 posted on 12/31/2014 10:16:06 AM PST by hoagy62 ("Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered..."-Thomas Paine. 1776)
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To: hoagy62

“Also, here’s a question: Suppose the parents of a gender-confused child DO get him help. However, after moths, if not years of therapy, the child absolutely refuses to acknowledge their proper gender. What should be done then?”

Nothing-—just put him in God’s hands and get on with life.

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154 posted on 12/31/2014 10:17:34 AM PST by Mears
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To: ArtDodger

I have some messed up relatives. The father was an alcoholic and the mother was odd. One son was given the option of going to prison or the army due to heavy drug use and drugs eventually killed him. The other son and daughter both turned out gay. It’s obvious the home environment messed them up.


155 posted on 12/31/2014 10:19:37 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: ArtDodger

I love ‘Slap Shot’. The vulgar way he ripped into the owner...LOL. That was great.


156 posted on 12/31/2014 10:20:17 AM PST by POWERSBOOTHEFAN (TOUCH MY SODA AND THERE'LL BE HELL TO PAY!!)
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To: Servant of the Cross

I believe he only acted and dressed like a girl.


157 posted on 12/31/2014 10:27:20 AM PST by POWERSBOOTHEFAN (TOUCH MY SODA AND THERE'LL BE HELL TO PAY!!)
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To: Gaffer

See?!


158 posted on 12/31/2014 10:28:17 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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To: FunkyZero

It’s not harsh at all. It’s the God’s honest truth.


159 posted on 12/31/2014 10:29:01 AM PST by POWERSBOOTHEFAN (TOUCH MY SODA AND THERE'LL BE HELL TO PAY!!)
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To: Lion Den Dan

Plus it means more chocolate for the rest of us.


160 posted on 12/31/2014 10:30:15 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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