Posted on 01/03/2015 1:52:29 PM PST by PROCON
The funeral for an Ohio transgender teen whose death and suicide note struck a chord across the country was moved Friday and held privately after threats against the family. Leelah Alcorn, 17, died Sunday after writing in an online diary that her parents didn't accept that she identified as female.
Tim Tripp, the family minister at Northeast Church of Christ in Cincinnati, told NBC News the funeral had been moved to a private location because "the times and dates had been publicized, and the family's received threats." Tripp wouldn't specify what threats surrounded the funeral, other than to say the family had heard there would be "disruptions." Mourners arriving at the church Friday found a sign on the door announcing the service's postponement. Jeff Hartmann, of Hodapp Funeral Home, said the private service was held there Friday morning. He said Alcorn's body was to be cremated.
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You are correct. There is a good article online rigiht from Hopkinss that goes through the history of the procedure at Hopkins and how they realized that stopping was the right thing to do for these mentally ill people.
Google: Hopkins Hospital: a History of Sex Reassignment, by Rachel Witkin, JHU Newletter, May 1, 2014.
Think I must have gotten on a ping hit list here.
What I said is true. And you are right that Jesus loved this soul and would have forgiven her/him/it and set her free had she not rejected His of salvation. But she did what she did and went out with quite a bang.
The parents should not take on the guilt this hellion tried to put upon them for being Christians in his final act of self murder.
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