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Transgender bus driver threw herself in front of train after being called 'sir' by passengers
Daily Mail UK ^ | August 8, 2025 | Nic White

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 ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Travel; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: chicago; homosexualagenda; mentalillness; suicide; trans; xyxx
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To: Morgana
Oh that's horrible. You all pray for that train engineer, you know that still haunts him/her. They see a lot of suicides and they can't stop the train.

I was on a train when someone did this. All of the passengers had to get off so the police could recover the remains and complete their investigation. Everyone had to walk to the nearest road and wait for a ride to the next town. Thankfully this mentally disturbed individual didn't kill anyone else.
61 posted on 08/09/2025 4:30:54 AM PDT by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it." )
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To: maddog55

I usually call them She/He/ITs instead of “its.’


62 posted on 08/09/2025 4:32:21 AM PDT by Tom Tetroxide (Psalm 146:3 "Do not trust in princes, in the Son of Man, who has no salvation.")
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To: Morgana

Lucky he did not crash the bus into a train and kill passengers also. This person should not have been allowed in this job.


63 posted on 08/09/2025 4:33:27 AM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism. )
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To: Morgana

“Sadly, we’ll never fully know the reason for her death, “

But the headline makes you think it’s because somebody may have called him “sir”.

Total BS and gaslighting.


64 posted on 08/09/2025 4:34:07 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they. control you. )
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To: OldHarbor

“Why is there such a effort to ‘normalize’ this madness? Who is orchestrating this? Why has the medical community allowed this ?”

Satan and his minions the political left. Destroying families destroys the civilization, especially in countries with a strong Christian foundation. If people can’t procreate, then a normal nuclear family can’t exist.


65 posted on 08/09/2025 4:35:23 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino)
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To: Ann Archy

“Speaking of Bruce Jenner......I kind of blame him for all this TRANNIE CRAP!!”

I, also, blame Duran Duran with this music video they produced back in the 1980s.

“Come Undone”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Epj84QVw2rc


66 posted on 08/09/2025 4:35:52 AM PDT by Tom Tetroxide (Psalm 146:3 "Do not trust in princes, in the Son of Man, who has no salvation.")
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To: Morgana

Pretty much confirms he had serious mental issues.


67 posted on 08/09/2025 4:35:53 AM PDT by Feckless (The US Gubbmint / This TagliCanne CENSORED by FR \ IrOnic, ain't it?)
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To: Mark17

And that nobody buys their delusions.


68 posted on 08/09/2025 4:36:11 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they. control you. )
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To: SaveFerris

Should have been in a mental institution.


69 posted on 08/09/2025 4:36:43 AM PDT by Tom Tetroxide (Psalm 146:3 "Do not trust in princes, in the Son of Man, who has no salvation.")
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To: All

I had a liberal doctor tell me that the “suicide rate is high” among transgenders... as a justification for allowing them to mutilate their own bodies.

“Wait, so these folks are mentally unstable and may kill themselves unless we allow children to damage their bodies, become sterile, mutilate healthy breasts and penises OR the psychologically damaged and confused people will suicide on us?”

“Yes.”

“So, basically, they’re holding themselves hostage? Give me what I want, or I’ll kill myself? Does that seem likely behavior to encourage, promote, condone, or in any way treat positively? Or should we get these folks psychiatric treatment?”

“Well, the official treatment now is to acknowledge trans people or you can lose your license...”

“So it was all a political switch and you guys are just the brown shirts for the system?”

“Well...”


70 posted on 08/09/2025 4:37:42 AM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: Morgana; All

Comments BUMP!


71 posted on 08/09/2025 4:40:52 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: TigerClaws

Cue Sheriff Bart...

“He’s just crazy enough to do it!”


72 posted on 08/09/2025 4:42:31 AM PDT by steve in DC
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To: Morgana

So cute how the writer continues to call it her/she. -sarc


73 posted on 08/09/2025 4:50:58 AM PDT by albie
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To: A strike

Pretty much my take. The only ones I have compassion for are the person operating the train and the clean up crew.


74 posted on 08/09/2025 4:52:35 AM PDT by redfreedom (Happiness is shopping at Walmart and not hearing Spanish once!)
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To: Mogger

Suppose you were a whack job and believed in reincarnation.

The only possible justification that I can think of is someone born hermaphrodite (intersex). I guess the xx/xy status is confusing and I certainly don’t understand the genetic situation.


75 posted on 08/09/2025 4:53:41 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino)
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To: johniegrad
No one knows the reason for the suicide and the headline suggests the author does.

I know the reason.

76 posted on 08/09/2025 4:57:25 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: Morgana

A mentally ill male... There, NOW it reads correctly.


77 posted on 08/09/2025 5:01:11 AM PDT by GrumpyOldGuy
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To: Morgana

Actually there is no indication that misgendering caused the suicide, despite the misleading headline. The suicide was also “after” he lost his Willy, maybe that was th cause of death.


78 posted on 08/09/2025 5:02:42 AM PDT by brookwood (America Was Built By MS-13. We Are A Nation Of MS-13.)
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To: Morgana

Why is the medical system not being called out for their corruption on this issue? The mentally ill are dying, people are getting shot, all because doctors are too cowardly to say they’re mentally ill.


79 posted on 08/09/2025 5:04:18 AM PDT by Vision (“Our Democracy” means "Our Slush Fund." The Left is hate.)
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To: OldHarbor

IMO, anyone who tries to transition is filled with self-hate.

You have to really hate who or what you are to go to those kind of extreme lengths to change that.


80 posted on 08/09/2025 5:06:01 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus….)
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