Posted on 04/26/2023 6:19:46 AM PDT by Morgana
ENGLEWOOD, Colorado (LifeSiteNews) — A 25-year-old male flight attendant for United Airlines who identified as a woman and was featured in the prominent airline’s advertisement promoting “Trans Visibility” was found dead in his home in Colorado on Monday after posting a heartbreaking suicide note to social media.
“As I take my final breaths and exit this living earth, I would like to apologize to everyone I let down. I am so sorry I could not be better,” wrote “Kayleigh” Scott in an early morning social media post Monday.
“To those that I love, I am sorry I could not be stronger,” he said. “To those that gave me their everything, I am sorry my effort was not reciprocated. Please understand that me leaving is not a reflection on you, but the result of my own inability to turn myself for the better.”
Arapahoe County Coroner’s Office senior medical investigator Shannon Sanamo confirmed Scott died by suicide.
Scott’s family reacted to the tragedy in their own emotional posts to social media.
The young man’s mother said she was “unbelievably proud to have you as my daughter, proud and amazed by everything that you have done in your life.”
“[Y]our smile was absolutely beautiful, your laughter was unbelievably contagious, your heart was bigger than any of us could have ever understood,” Scott’s mother said.
Scott’s sister, Ashley, responded to Scott’s post to confirm to concerned commenters that her brother had passed.
“Thank you for your concern and outpouring of love for her [sic]. We are going to miss her [sic] so much,” she wrote.
Scott had made headlines when he was featured in a “Trans Visibility Day” ad published by United Airlines in 2020.
Part of the commercial showed images of Scott before and after his “transition.” In a caption referring to the image of himself while he was still presenting himself as a man, Scott said people shouldn’t be “fool[ed]” by his “smirk,” and that “[t]here was so much pain behind that sweet boy’s eyes.”
Scott urged others who identify as LGBT to “come out” and “be counted,” and said his life was made better when he started work with United and came out as transgender.
“I was able to break free from the chains that held me and to this day, I’m living confidently as my true self,” he said.
That feeling appeared to change in 2022, however, when he wrote on Facebook on New Year’s Eve that “2022 has been a year packed with upset and difficulty.” He said he “saw too much death [and] loss in my life,” and “came to realize I work a meaningless job for a company that doesn’t value me as an employee.”
According to another Facebook post, Scott’s father passed away last summer. The two had had a difficult relationship, according to Scott.
“I had my heart destroyed, I lost my nice little home and had to downsize significantly and start over,” Scott said. “I’m really struggling to find happiness and hope. I’m begging 2023 to be better to me. Please.”
United Airlines told the New York Post in a statement that the company was “incredibly saddened by the tragic loss of Kayleigh Scott and extend our deepest condolences to her [sic] family, friends and co-workers.”
People like Scott who identify as transgender are far more likely to experience suicidal ideation or commit suicide than people who do not. Tragically, a March 2022 study found that “82% of transgender individuals have considered killing themselves and 40% have attempted suicide, with suicidality highest among transgender youth.”
Despite this, however, in recent years rising rates of transgender identification have been met with celebration and adulation in mainstream culture, and young children are actively being encouraged to deny their biology and live as the opposite sex, potentially contributing to lifelong psychological harm.
Transgender advocates often argue that so-called “gender-affirming care” (GAC), including mutilating transgender surgeries and cross-sex hormones, can help reduce suicidal ideation for gender-confused individuals, but research doesn’t bear that out.
A 2019 study by Richard Bränström Ph.D. and John E. Pachankis, Ph.D. that appeared to support the theory that “GAC” improves mental health was later retracted. A 2020 correction to that study found the “results demonstrated no advantage of surgery in relation to subsequent mood or anxiety disorder-related health care visits or prescriptions or hospitalizations following suicide attempts in that comparison.”
The study’s authors later admitted that their “conclusion based on the findings at hand in the article, which used neither a prospective cohort design nor a randomized controlled trial design, was too strong.”
In addition, a recent JAMA study pointed out that a 2020 correction to a 2010 meta-analysis concerning transgender surgical and pharmaceutical interventions found “no mental health benefit from gender-affirming surgery after comparison with a control group of [gender-confused] people who had not yet undergone surgery.”
A 2011 Swedish cohort study also found that “persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, suicidal behavior, and psychiatric morbidity than the general population.”
This week, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops issued a strong statement affirming the Catholic doctrine that God created human beings as male and female and that ultimate happiness will be found in respecting God’s will for creation.
For those aware of someone experiencing suicidal ideation or who have a loved one considering suicide, the 24/7 national suicide prevention hotline at 988 or 988Lifeline.org can provide invaluable assistance.
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Looks like all this acceptance didn’t do this guy much good.
I think I see the problem and the reason why he committed suicide. These parents should be deeply ashamed of themselves that they cheerlead for their kids' mental illness rather than getting help for them.
“Gender-confused man”
Finally someone said it correctly.
These people are mentally disturbed and need help.
Very sad though.....regardless.
This is what transgenders have to look forward to. Parents beware.
United Airlines played a role in this tragedy.
Parents that encourage this are just as nuts as the kids.
They should change their name to, “Transworld Airlines.” I’m pretty sure the name is up for grabs.
The sad part of this story, is that this guy did not get appropriate help for his gender dysphoria.
We seem to have had a headlong rush, to do hormone shots and surgeries on people , as a treatment for gender dysphoria.
These people have mental problems before they get any medical intervention, and they still have mental problems after they do get such treatments.
One down...not as many as you think to go.
It’s a lonely life being confused.
I wonder if he cut his junk off then later realized what a mistake he made and couldn’t take it. I’d probably off myself at that point too.
Obviously this guy was mentally deranged and sick, but it’s still sad and the leftists in control of our culture and the LGBTQ activists are to blame for this man’s sad demise.
I believe I've discovered the problem.
The end result is that the person now has a mutilated body, loses reproductive capability, and will likely never find a spouse. After all, what real man would marry a fake woman who is incapable of giving him babies, when there are so many real women around? Vice versa for any female trying to pass herself off as a man. Any woman who desires a man can get herself a real man.
On top of all that, the underlying mental illness is still there. All those hormone treatments and surgeries did nothing to address the root problem. Instead, they have only added to the individual's troubles by ensuring they will never have true love (such as a spouse).
I could see that leading to suicide.
The trans community doesn’t want help, they want companions. Kinda like an alcoholic begging you to stay and have one more drink with him.
Huge roll in this insanity. United paid for and supported this lunacy.
Indeed they did - by promoting his celebrity, they contributed to the fiction, in his mind, that he was a woman, thus polarizing and emphasizing his mental conflict - like convincing someone on LSD that they are a bird and can fly from a tall building.
Encouraging mental illness has a downside.
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