Posted on 08/09/2025 12:58:12 AM PDT by Morgana
A transgender bus driver took her own life by jumping in front of a train after colleagues kept referring to her as male.
Ava Michal Hudson, 27, died on August 7 last year on her way to work at the Chicago Transit Authority, while in her uniform.
She didn't leave a note and gave no indication she was suicidal before suddenly leaping to her death, just four days after attending her brother's wedding.
'Sadly, we’ll never fully know the reason for her death, but the pain left behind after her sudden departure has been acute,' her family wrote in her obituary.
'She has already been mourned by many, many friends and relatives across the globe. She will be very much missed and never forgotten.'
Hudson got her bus license just seven months earlier, last January, and passed probation weeks before her death, proudly announcing it in her final Facebook post.
The new job was a turning point for Hudson after several years of struggling with her gender and unemployment after graduating from Wheaton College in 2020.
Transition costs were expensive, running to $875 a month according to a 2022 court petition to legally change her name, plus more for counseling.
Her $61,000 bus driver salary finally allowed for expensive procedures and gave her financial independence for the first time.
'The day she got her CDL driver’s permit in November 2023 was one of the happiest days of her later life and things finally started to take a turn for the better,' her obituary read.
'She often called or texted photos to her family during breaks on her bus routes.'
But the job never quite fit - both literally, with a boxy uniform that led to passengers innocently calling her 'sir', and her isolation in the role.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Well ... Bye.
This reads like a twilight zone episode.
“…and gave no indication she was suicidal…”
For the mentally deranged anything is a possibility. This guy was crazy. Look at how he lived. Looks at what he did. Look at how he died.
Your argument “that the fault belongs to people who insisted on calling him a ‘her’ when that is just not true” isn’t just an argument. It’s the hard truth they deflect because they are unwilling to take that responsibility.
At least in this and other suicide cases where the mentally ill person took only their own life the damage to others was limited. There are a lot of cases where the mentally ill person takes or attempts to take the life of another or more than one other person.
Mental health treatment needs to be the first and foremost priority. Not butchery.
Sadly, we’ll never fully know the reason for “it’s” death..
We do know, don’t care and good riddance.
Also, Wheaton is a Christian school. Me thinks that ol’ demon preys on the weak of spirit.
Actually, the engineer must stay in the cab to control the train. The CONDUCTOR has to walk back and discover the carnage- I’ll never get that out of my mind. Numerous, too many to count.
I didn’t think of that. So sorry that you have to endure those horrible memories.
Obama certainly shares all the blame, but let’s not fail to indict Wheaton College.
Speaking of Bruce Jenner......I kind of blame him for all this TRANNIE CRAP!!! They gave him such publicity and made him COOL instead of the IGNORED WUSS specimen of the KarTRASHIANS!!
These people need to be MENTALLY INSTITUTIONALIZED instead of walking among us.
We even have a CONGRESSMAN IN A DRESS NOW!!
“The first thing liberals want to do is blame the people who refused to call him “ma’am”. But no one is responsible for a mentally ill person’s suicide. I could just as easily argue that the fault belongs to the people who insisted on calling him a ‘her’ when that is just not true. Helping to reinforce a person’s mental illness is not treating it.”
Hey really well put, TI.
It’s “denial”, right? There’s the truth, which we are called to seek, understand, honor, and then there’s everything else.
When we set out to deny the truth, we invite suffering. And in this case, a catastrophe.
Very sad what happened here. May God bless the young man who committed suicide, but also the poor train conductor who had no choice but to witness what happened.
Or just: Homosexual = Mentally Ill
And insanity had absolutely nothing to do with it....much.
Usually, the wheels were so hot, from multiple previous braking frictions, that it sorta “ cauterized the peeps- little blood came out.
More than likely, it was his brother’s wedding that finally pushed him over the edge ...
If being a faithful Christian resulted in such stats then Christianity would be denigrated as weak and an orientation that is to be combated.
They’re not making Wheaton grads like they used to.
At least he-she-it won’t be procreating.
“All it (transgendering) really does is lock the victim into having their disorder for the rest of their lives.”
Well said. Much like the act of suicide — a permanent solution to a temporary problem.
The industry sells transgender surgery and hormone treatments to parents by saying it will prevent suicide. But it does the opposite.
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