Posted on 01/02/2015 8:06:47 PM PST by Morgana
FULL TITLE: Christian parents accused of 'cruelty' in their 17-year-old transgender daughter's suicide note REFUSE to accept her female identity - but insist they loved 'him'
The mother of a transgender teen who killed herself over the holiday season is speaking out, and making it clear she did not and does not approve of what she believes was her daughter's choice to be transgender.
Carla Alcorn of Kings Mills, Ohio said in an interview that she and her husband did not 'support' their daughter Leelah Alcorn, while also refusing to acknowledge her daughter's sex, using male pronouns and referring to her as 'him,' 'he' and 'son' throughout the interview.
However they insist they loved their child unconditionally and are devastated by the tragic suicide.
This just days after Leelah walked in front of a tractor trailer and ended her life, writing in her heartbreaking suicide note that because she was transgender, 'The life I would've lived isn't worth living in.'
Even more upsetting is the fact that she also shares how hopeful she once was in her letter, writing; 'When I was 14, I learned what transgender meant and cried of happiness.'
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
“Calling this boy an ‘it’ is dehumanising. He was a human being, and a troubled one. .....”
I agree he should have been in a nervous hospital.
You’re so right. Even though you’re a “dude” yourself (as per the screenname), you understand what the so-called “transgendered” do not understand. To them, being a woman is all about playing dress-up.
What’s a transgender daughter? A boy?
Magnificent...mind if I steal that post? I always attribute! Well said!
omgosh—i thought this was a John Semmens satire piece... how dare this writer make it seem as though the parents did not know who their son was...
That’s what I was thinking, what is with liberals trying to label someone something that they’re not-especially because the parents rightly recognize that this young man (and his suicide IS tragic) is a man not a young lady.
Cute. And apropos.
Wrong! Please use your tense correctly. It was a HE.
The story of a deluded, self-important child thwarted from a foolish obsession. The suicide note displays his inflated opinion of his importance. Narcissism, really.
He was probably fed a steady diet of, you-can-be-anything-you-want-to-be and you-can-change-the-world hogwash...and we see the results.
Another self-important, shallow poofter.
All I know is he made a not bad looking guy, but an ugly girl!!
I concur.
One of the comments at the Mail talks about the need to wait until age 25 before deciding to change genders because that’s when puberty is officially over. Prior to that, one would think, surgery of this type should be totally illegal and most certainly not covered by any insurance.
After that, if people are that crazy, let them pay for it themselves.
And also…if a twenty-six year old or a seventy-six year old wants to chop of his arm and sew it to his nose….it’s his business. Or her business. Whatever. But no Obamacare or medicare insurance should cover that either.
Due to this article I hereby bring the word “sanctimonious” out of retirement.
he recently went on meds for depression.....that is what killed him....type and dosage and teen yields suicidal tendencies
AMERICA!!!
I had a son who decided at a young age that he was a puppy. That’s a fun game for a few hours, one that I’m sure many parents have dealt with, but it lasted more than a day. Rather than getting him a collar and a doggy dish and being completely supportive of a permanent identity change, perhaps even demanding that others call my son “Spot”, I got the other kids ice cream. “Puppies don’t eat ice cream, you know.” It only took a little over an hour of things puppies don’t do before we heard the last doggie whimper and my son decided he’d rather be a boy.
These parents were good parents and good people doing their best. Thanks to the evil of liberals who enable mental illness, the parents were unable to save their child, but the blame falls squarely on the far left, not on decent parents who refuse to reinforce their son’s delusions. I don’t want to imagine how difficult raising my child would have been for me if a liberal “Animal Rights” activist had stepped in to interfere with my parenting at the wrong moment.
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