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Two transgender teens who attend same Bay Area high school die by suicide 10 months apart
Daily Mail UK ^ | February 10, 2026 | Lauren Acton-Taylor

Posted on 02/10/2026 11:05:47 PM PST by Morgana

Two transgender teenagers who were close friends at the same California school have died by suicide less than a year apart.

Summer Devi Mehta, 17, stepped into the path of a Caltrain on February 3, just 10 months before her classmate, Ash He, died the same way.

Mehta was a junior at Palo Alto High School in the Bay Area, while 15-year-old He was a sophomore.

Mehta left a suicide note explaining that she hoped her death would bring people together and raise awareness about the suicide crisis among the trans community.

Her family, who found her letter, wrote a heart-wrenching tribute to their daughter, which was published by The Trevor Project, an LGBTQ+ suicide prevention charity.

'The world was a scary place for her, as a transgender, autistic woman. It should not have been,' Mehta's heartbroken relatives wrote.

'It should have seen her for the wonderful, radiant and deeply empathetic person she was.'

According to her family, Mehta struggled with depression as well as the death of her best friend He, who identified as non-binary.

'All Summer wanted to do was make the people in her life happy, and be a good kid, a good friend, a good sister, a good daughter,' her family wrote.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Education; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: ashhe; badparenting; buhbye; california; caltrain; crossdressers; homosexualagenda; mentalillness; paloalto; suicide; summerdevimehta; trans; transgender; transgenders
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To: WhiteHatBobby0701

That’s right.


21 posted on 02/11/2026 3:48:59 AM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: mikelets456

It is Margaret Sanger Part 2


22 posted on 02/11/2026 3:51:32 AM PST by cnsmom
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To: centermass_socrates

Yea but what about the poor guy who had to clean the train afterwards?


23 posted on 02/11/2026 4:21:21 AM PST by Zathras
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To: Morgana

It’s just as well.


24 posted on 02/11/2026 4:27:00 AM PST by TheGunny
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To: Morgana

Trannies be wack.


25 posted on 02/11/2026 4:54:06 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (No American Blood for censorious socialist islamophiles!)
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To: Morgana

2 is a starting point. Next month maybe try for 10.


26 posted on 02/11/2026 4:58:44 AM PST by Wilderness Conservative (Nature is the ultimate conservative)
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To: Morgana

I blame the staff and teachers at the school. They should be arrested for aiding and abetting suicides.


27 posted on 02/11/2026 5:07:11 AM PST by norwaypinesavage (Observation & experiment are the only means of new knowledge. All else is poetry-Max Planck)
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To: Morgana
According to HIS<\B>family, Mehta struggled with depression as well as the death of HIS best friend He, who identified as non-binary.

Fixed it...

28 posted on 02/11/2026 5:30:36 AM PST by DeplorableTrumpSupporter (FKA ConservaTeen)
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To: DeplorableTrumpSupporter

I’m afraid to ask what were He’s pronouns? Better not fail that simple task.


29 posted on 02/11/2026 5:38:27 AM PST by healy61
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To: Morgana

Their pronouns are now was/were.


30 posted on 02/11/2026 5:57:32 AM PST by nonliberal (Russia is not my enemy.)
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To: Morgana

Palo Alto High School has had a suicide problem for many, many years. I know it was making the news a lot around 15 years ago when my kiddos were in high school in the Bay Area.


31 posted on 02/11/2026 6:43:19 AM PST by luckystarmom
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To: Morgana

Here’s an article about the previous cluster of suicides. There were a high number of them from the LGTBQ community back then too.

https://stanforddaily.com/2016/07/21/cdc-releases-preliminary-findings-on-palo-alto-suicide-clusters/#:~:text=In%20the%20last%20seven%20years%2C,tracks%20near%20the%20high%20schools.


32 posted on 02/11/2026 6:48:19 AM PST by luckystarmom
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To: Morgana
Summer Devi Mehta, 17, stepped into the path of a Caltrain on February 3, just 10 months before her classmate, Ash He, died the same way.

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According to her family, Mehta struggled with depression as well as the death of her best friend He, who identified as non-binary.

Mehta struggled with the death of the best friend 10 months after Mehta committed suicide?

33 posted on 02/11/2026 6:53:15 AM PST by MortMan (Charter member of AAAAA - American Association Against Alliteration Abuse)
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To: Morgana

Just more proof that ever more affirmation doesn’t solve their problems, it just exacerbates them.


34 posted on 02/11/2026 6:59:37 AM PST by fwdude (Why is there a "far/radical right," but damned if they'll admit that there is a far/radical left)
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To: Karliner
I can almost hear the canard, they couldn't find any straight boys who would "date" them. That is the growing drumbeat of the past several years.

They started out being nice and suggesting that people need to "rethink" their dating pool by including "transgenders" if they are attracted to them initially (good costume.) Then, the snide name-calling soon followed. You're a "transphobe" if you won't consider dating a cross-dresser, with all of the social castigation that intends. You're "ignorant" and, if they had their way, you'd be banished from polite society or even be arrested.

35 posted on 02/11/2026 7:06:01 AM PST by fwdude (Why is there a "far/radical right," but damned if they'll admit that there is a far/radical left)
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To: All

ok
Unclear to me here. Were these boys claiming to be girls
Or girls claiming to be boys?


36 posted on 02/11/2026 7:14:59 AM PST by Reily
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To: fwdude
What you state may be a cause among young heterosexual men in hyper-liberal areas like Silicon Valley to become incels. Unless a family can separate themselves from such a culture through homeschooling or a conservative private school, their children are seriously at risk.
37 posted on 02/11/2026 7:40:53 AM PST by Wallace T.
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To: Morgana

I really think that a law should be passed that imprisons ANY person for aiding, abetting, supporting, encouraging or contributing to another person under 18 to seek or contract to getting transgender treatments. Punishment should be mandatory 5-25 years depending on involvement.


38 posted on 02/11/2026 8:09:10 AM PST by Cen-Tejas
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To: mikelets456
42% attempted and 81% consider…yet it’s “not a mental disorder”.

We're supposed to believe "it's all our fault" somehow. Personally, I've never (knowingly) directly met a "transgender" person who I could mistreat. My employer did have an insurance agent a couple of decades ago who was a cross-dressing man, but I kept any interactions focused on the business at hand and nothing more. Maybe that's what they're upset about. that we don't make more of their trans "fabulousness."

39 posted on 02/11/2026 8:18:16 AM PST by fwdude (Why is there a "far/radical right," but damned if they'll admit that there is a far/radical left)
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To: centermass_socrates
Well, at least they’re not gender confused anymore.

The pathologist knows full-well what they are, objectively.

40 posted on 02/11/2026 8:20:45 AM PST by fwdude (Why is there a "far/radical right," but damned if they'll admit that there is a far/radical left)
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