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Transgender teen's death stirs action in US and beyond
The State ^ | 1/24/2015 | Dan Sewell

Posted on 01/26/2015 5:21:23 AM PST by NetAddicted

Many have lashed out at Alcorn's parents online for everything from continuing to refer to Alcorn as Joshua to allegedly subjecting her to "conversion therapy," which involves the use of prayer or other means to try to change someone's sexual orientation. New Jersey and California have passed laws against it.

Alcorn's parents, Carla and Doug Alcorn, have said little publicly other than to express their love and grief for the child they lost. But Tim Tripp, the family minister for Northeast Church of Christ involved in counseling the Alcorns, emphatically denied using conversion therapy.

"I do not do nor have I ever done or attempted 'conversion therapy' for anyone related to issues of gender or sexual identity," Tripp said in an email. "I do offer counseling here at the church, but it is primarily pastoral in nature and seeks healing for individuals, marriages and families experiencing some sort of struggle in their lives."

Of the family, Tripp said he continues "walking with them through immense and all-too-public grief in their loss."

(Excerpt) Read more at thestate.com ...


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Only posting to inform y'all that Josh Alcorn, the transgender teen who killed himself, after posting a horrible letter blaming his parents for his suicide, never went through conversion therapy.
1 posted on 01/26/2015 5:21:23 AM PST by NetAddicted
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To: NetAddicted

Severely mentally disordered, the kid was. And needed treatment as serious as any other body identity disorder, such as an anorexic.


2 posted on 01/26/2015 5:26:39 AM PST by Crazieman (Article V or National Divorce. The only solutions now.)
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To: NetAddicted
"Why don't you join us in our insane, self destructive delusion".

No thanks. Emphatically.

3 posted on 01/26/2015 5:26:49 AM PST by skeeter
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To: NetAddicted

I feel sorry for the truck driver that this boy walked in front of on the highway.


4 posted on 01/26/2015 5:29:35 AM PST by petercooper ("How To Destroy The Country In 6 Short Years" by Barack Obama & the Democrats)
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To: NetAddicted

Homosexuality is a mental illness. That’s why homosexuals have so many other emotional and psychological issues than non-homosexuals.


5 posted on 01/26/2015 5:31:42 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Government is the religion of the fascists.)
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To: NetAddicted

The insane left would like to create millions more members of the latest victim group, “LGBT”.
Anything that blocks that formation is considered bad.


6 posted on 01/26/2015 5:35:29 AM PST by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: NetAddicted
Perhaps if he had he'd still be alive.

Affirmatively participating in another person's delusion will not cure their mental illness.

7 posted on 01/26/2015 5:39:47 AM PST by Eagles6 (Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
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To: NetAddicted

No one is “transgender.” There are people who chop off their organs and/or try to form new ones.

No one is born “the wrong sex.”


8 posted on 01/26/2015 5:39:56 AM PST by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: I want the USA back

I agree although the left would immediately counter with, “Well what about hermaphrodites?”. But that’s the left - highlighting and exploiting the fringes, exceptions, and perversions of a situation instead of celebrating normalcy.


9 posted on 01/26/2015 6:13:54 AM PST by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: NetAddicted

I wouldn’t care if he HAD gone thru conversion therapy. Someone who wants to pretend they are a different sex than their body parts indicate is deeply troubled and needs lots of therapy - and that therapy should not be oriented at helping them enjoy their twisted view of themselves.

There are people who want to have their arms or legs removed because they view them as foreign. Would anyone suggest we allow surgery to remove the body part?


10 posted on 01/26/2015 6:20:48 AM PST by Mr Rogers (Can you remember what America was like in 2004?)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The drug abuse, alcoholism and sexually transmitted diseases are why a Canadian study found homosexuals had a life expectancy of their early 50s, whereas normal men were in their 70s.


11 posted on 01/26/2015 6:33:24 AM PST by tbw2
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To: NetAddicted

Prayers to his family. May GOD bless him. Of course with hormones being injected into foods, TG might be more common.


12 posted on 01/26/2015 6:38:44 AM PST by ExCTCitizen (I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
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Of course with hormones being injected into foods

AND in your drinking water.

13 posted on 01/26/2015 6:43:51 AM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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continuing to refer to Alcorn as Joshua

I had a 6 year old nephew who liked to pretend that he was a robot. At one point, he said he couldn't help the other kids clean up because his battery was drained. I guess I psychologically scarred him for life when I told him to stop the crap and to get up and help instead of playing along with his nonsense.

When a boy comes home and tells you to start calling him by a girls name, you don't play along with the nonsense.

14 posted on 01/26/2015 6:49:04 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: WXRGina

ping


15 posted on 01/26/2015 6:54:06 AM PST by logitech (It is time.)
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To: UCANSEE2

Awhile back they did a study on drinking water in Milwaukee Wisconsin and found fecal matter,estrogen, vicodan and more. The purification process did not remove these from the water. Kinda answers why so many city boys are wussys.


16 posted on 01/26/2015 6:58:25 AM PST by mouse1 (Cruz 2016)
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To: NetAddicted

But let us all keep pretending this isn’t a mental disorder! It feels good to play along and pretend everything is normal with this nonsense! These people need help, and an entire society pretending they aren’t mentally ill - and even celebrating it - is not help!


17 posted on 01/26/2015 6:59:54 AM PST by Phillyred
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To: NetAddicted

Self-absorbed to the end, this narcissistic a—hole chose to directly involve an innocent person in his suicide.


18 posted on 01/26/2015 7:08:34 AM PST by WayneS (Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
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To: I want the USA back
There is a very rare genetic mutation which causes hermaphrodism.

I would be willing to classify those unfortunate people as “transgendered” - but no one who is xy or xx should ever be able to lay claim to that term.

19 posted on 01/26/2015 7:11:12 AM PST by WayneS (Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
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***..because his battery was drained.***

Too bad you did not have a cattle prod. He would have been recharged REAL FAST! And i bet he would have never had a “dead battery” again!

But then, someone would have reported you to child services and they would have gone ballistic.


20 posted on 01/26/2015 9:47:51 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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