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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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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.
1 posted on 08/09/2025 12:58:12 AM PDT by Morgana
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To: Morgana

12 years of Obama 1.0, Obama 2.0, Obama 3.0 (Joe Biden was allegedly "President") . . . lots of damage. I see it all the time in so many people. A guy 20 years old, at some point decided to be a woman - and he is daily in pain because of all the "changes" that doctors could explain, but they do not explain honestly.

Butchery of body, heart, mind, and soul.


2 posted on 08/09/2025 1:03:01 AM PDT by linMcHlp
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To: Morgana

They sold him that lie

Sigh. 😞😔


3 posted on 08/09/2025 1:09:38 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: Morgana

Indeed. The conductor is the one really paying for this.

I guess the truth is too much for some people to take.


4 posted on 08/09/2025 1:11:04 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus….)
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To: linMcHlp

After 12 years of Obama people told him the truth, they said dude, you are a guy get over it. He could not handle it and walked in front of a train.


5 posted on 08/09/2025 1:12:02 AM PDT by Morgana ( “Abortion is the ultimate exploitation of women.” — Alice Paul 🇺🇸 )
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To: linMcHlp

I have heard there are suicides among trans people, when they realize, their new life is not what it’s supposed to be like, in their own minds.


6 posted on 08/09/2025 1:15:02 AM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF ISR pilot. Both bitten by the aviation bug)
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To: Morgana

The first thing liberals want to do is blame the people who refused to call him “ma’am”. But no one is responsible for a mentally ill person’s suicide. I could just as easily argue that the fault belongs to the people who insisted on calling him a ‘her’ when that is just not true. Helping to reinforce a person’s mental illness is not treating it.


7 posted on 08/09/2025 1:15:06 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: Morgana

Another one bites the dust.


8 posted on 08/09/2025 1:20:10 AM PDT by Equine1952 (MM1SS )
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To: Morgana

Yes,
other than that, is there a problem here? other than cleanup


9 posted on 08/09/2025 1:24:20 AM PDT by A strike (f the UK/MI6 effort to sucker the US into perpetuating their delusion of British world importance)
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To: Telepathic Intruder
The first thing liberals want to do is blame the people who refused to call him “ma’am”. But no one is responsible for a mentally ill person’s suicide. I could just as easily argue that the fault belongs to the people who insisted on calling him a ‘her’ when that is just not true. Helping to reinforce a person’s mental illness is not treating it.

Bravo!

10 posted on 08/09/2025 1:34:16 AM PDT by awelliott (What one generation tolerates, the next embraces....)
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To: linMcHlp

“...Butchery of body, heart, mind, and soul....”

Nothing new under the sun.
The enemy comes to steal, kill and destroy as he has throughout the centuries.
Ashteroth: the transgender demon, follows its Big Daddy; Satan.


11 posted on 08/09/2025 1:49:27 AM PDT by lgjhn23 ("On the 8th day, Satan created the progressive liberal to destroy all the good that God created...")
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To: Mark17

The transgender think “if only I could be this other gender, everything will be fine.” Then they make the transition and they’re just as unhappy and poorly adjusted as they were before, if not more so. They try to blame it on anything but themselves, like the nebulous “transphobia”. But at the end of the day they’re still unhappy and even further away from mental health. Think about it, they’re trying to be something- some ONE else. But no matter where you go, there you are. You can’t run away from yourself.

CC


12 posted on 08/09/2025 1:56:39 AM PDT by Celtic Conservative (*This is a test of the emergency tagline system. This is only a test*)
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To: Morgana

Leftists/MSM will have you believe that transitioning is a cure for mental illness and its resultant suicidality. All it really does is lock the victim into having their disorder for the rest of their lives.


13 posted on 08/09/2025 1:56:59 AM PDT by dangus
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To: Morgana

The gender stuff may be a sideshow. The main issue is likely a Wheaton grad working a bus route. It’s the social demotion, not the pay. Of course, the trans stuff was likely an issue when he interviewed for jobs, especially if he led with questions about insurance coverage for expensive procedures.

Now, imagine if you settled for a low prestige job to get coverage, then discover after being sliced and diced that the state of the art in sex changes is merely cosmetic surgery, that incontinence and an inability to have normal sexual relations are a side effect of the treatment. It’s one thing to live a lie, and quite another to push towards a horrible, irreversible outcome based on someone else’s lie.


14 posted on 08/09/2025 1:57:12 AM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room)
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To: Morgana

Many trannies progress to suicide. This is because these cases of gender dysphoria are connected to deeply-rooted unhappiness combined with realizing that transitioning to the other gender doesn’t solve their unhappiness problem.

Just stop it already with pushing trans onto children. Most children who go through a period of questioning will figure things out. Those who don’t, when they reach adulthood, and bear the cost themselves of any procedures they elect, good luck.

We have always had some number of people who either privately cross-dress (e.g., wear women’s underwear under their gender-conforming clothes) or pass as the other gender through clothing and make-up, without surgeries or hormones. The pushing of trans as something real takes away the relatively-innocuous cross-dressing option.


15 posted on 08/09/2025 2:20:54 AM PDT by Redmen4ever
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To: Morgana

Trans = Homosexual = Mentally Ill.


16 posted on 08/09/2025 2:21:40 AM PDT by CodeToad
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To: Celtic Conservative

Yes! I read about Walt Heyer, who made that discovery when he transitioned; it did not fix his problems. Now he speaks out against it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Heyer


17 posted on 08/09/2025 2:26:14 AM PDT by quilterdebbie (We will endeavor to persevere!)
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To: Morgana

Yes, I feel horrible for the train engineer too!


18 posted on 08/09/2025 2:26:39 AM PDT by quilterdebbie (We will endeavor to persevere!)
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To: Morgana

Another Darwin Award.


19 posted on 08/09/2025 2:26:51 AM PDT by Candor7 (Ask not for whom the Trump Trolls,He trolls for thee!<img src="" width=500</img><a href="">tag</a>) )
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To: Celtic Conservative

I see he has a website and speaks out against the horrible things being done to children now: https://waltheyer.com/


20 posted on 08/09/2025 2:30:33 AM PDT by quilterdebbie (We will endeavor to persevere!)
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