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Transgender teen's suicide note: ‘My death needs to mean something’
Yahoo ^ | 12/31 | Michael Walsh

Posted on 12/31/2014 7:26:36 AM PST by TangledUpInBlue

The suicide of a transgender teen is catching national attention in part because of a suicide note she left behind online.

Leelah Alcorn, 17, of Kings Mills, Ohio, was struck and killed by a tractor-trailer on I-71 about 2:30 a.m. on Sunday, according to local media.

Posthumous posts started to appear on her Tumblr page, titled “Lazer Princess,” including her suicide note and a post apologizing to her closest friends.

“My death needs to mean something,” she wrote. “My death needs to be counted in the number of transgender people who commit suicide this year. I want someone to look at that number and say ‘that’s f---ed up’ and fix it. Fix society. Please.”

Alcorn's note explains that she has felt like a girl trapped in a boy’s body ever since she was 4. Then she cried tears of joy when she learned what transgender meant at 14.

“After 10 years of confusion I finally understood who I was,” the suicide note reads. “I immediately told my mom, and she reacted extremely negatively, telling me that it was a phase, that I would never truly be a girl, that God doesn’t make mistakes, that I am wrong.”

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: crossdresser; education; freak; freakyfreak; gaynewsrooms; grooming; homosexualagenda; joshalcorn; kingsmills; lavendermafia; leelah; leelahalcorn; mentalillness; ohio; pinkjournalism; pravdamedia; sexpositiveagenda; suicide; teensuicide; transgender; transvestite
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To: TangledUpInBlue
The kid was a brat...

Kid: Mommy, I want to get a tattoo!

Mom: When you come of age you can do whatever you like to your body. Meanwhile, the body God gave you is good enough.

Kid: FU! I'll show you!

SPLAT!

I'm pretty sure that poor truck driver doesn't care what kind of junk the brat was packing.

P.S. Sometimes people don't treat you well because you're an annoying douche and with no regard whatsoever for your identity issues.
181 posted on 12/31/2014 1:50:27 PM PST by davius (You can roll manure in powdered sugar but that don't make it a jelly doughnut.)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

**boy’s body ever since she was 4.**

Really a boy.

Setting the record straight.


182 posted on 12/31/2014 1:56:45 PM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

It means that somebody told a bunch of nonsense to a kid while they were protected by a government that wants to see more of this. The people who convinced this kid that being “gender queer” was cool are responsible.

The November election is the 1st step to getting this problem under control.


183 posted on 12/31/2014 2:12:32 PM PST by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: Dr. Pritchett

It’s the new AP Style Book to call him what he wants to be called, even though biologically he’s a dude.

There is a petition online to have the parents put his female name on his tombstone so that at least in death he will be recognized as a girl.

Heaven help us all.


184 posted on 12/31/2014 2:43:47 PM PST by Mountain Bike Vomit Carnage (Not my circus, not my monkeys.)
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To: publius911
We won't know more until the lamestream media decides to tell us.

That's like looking forward to poking yourself in the eye with a sharp stick!
Really?
Who gives a rat's elbow?

His on-going race baiting should be addressed by those black ministers and politicians. It'll never happen and the silence of those "leaders" is excruciatingly LOUD.
Their silence aids and abets.

185 posted on 12/31/2014 3:18:02 PM PST by cloudmountain
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To: Mountain Bike Vomit Carnage

Parents might as well give in otherwise I see the tolerant Left coming to the grave and destroying any stone with HIS really name on it.

Replacing those will get expensive.


186 posted on 12/31/2014 3:19:53 PM PST by Gasshog (DemoKKKrats: Leaders of the Free Stuff World)
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To: publius911

You’re kidding; right? Come on publius, you’re not that dense. That was a “tongue in cheek” question intended to expose the hypocrisy of the LGBT crowd. IMO, outside of Divine intervention, homosexuals will never be able to change and live a normal sexual life.


187 posted on 12/31/2014 4:50:49 PM PST by Din Maker (Is anyone considering Gov. Susana Martinez of NM as the possible GOP nominee in 2016?)
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To: novemberslady

I haven’t read any details on the accident. Is it possible, though highly unlikely, that HE was accidentally hit? Also, I agree with you: this kid was obviously screwed up, in that he caused someone else to live with the remorse of killing someone. What a heartless looney-tune.


188 posted on 12/31/2014 8:22:28 PM PST by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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To: 50sDad

Good point.


189 posted on 12/31/2014 8:26:02 PM PST by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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To: al_c

Apparently, the new opprobrium is attacking one who doesn’t buy the lie.
G-d told us this was coming, when he said don’t dress as the opposite sex.


190 posted on 12/31/2014 8:32:26 PM PST by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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To: bgill

Don’t know what you looked up, but I googled: female hands, & got this:
http://www.handresearch.com/hand/Evolutie/sekseEngels.htm

Anyone know what that tranny on “Orange is the New Black” hands look like?


191 posted on 12/31/2014 8:48:39 PM PST by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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To: Farmer Dean

That really infuriates me. I have no sympathy for the narcissist.


192 posted on 12/31/2014 8:54:17 PM PST by POWERSBOOTHEFAN (TOUCH MY SODA AND THERE'LL BE HELL TO PAY!!)
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To: RginTN

He complained, because he wanted to start hormone therapy right away. Apparently, there are lots of websites to tell kids how to “change” their sex.


193 posted on 12/31/2014 8:57:53 PM PST by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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To: NetAddicted

oh he wanted his Christian parents to pay for that hormone therapy and I bet they wouldn’t.


194 posted on 12/31/2014 11:11:38 PM PST by RginTN
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To: NetAddicted
Thanks for that great link. Very interesting. It appears to be a part of, or commentary on a Phd dissertation.
195 posted on 01/01/2015 9:24:40 AM PST by T-Bone Texan (The time is now to form up into leaderless cells of 5 men or less.)
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To: NetAddicted
I feel sympathy for his Mother.

I feel sympathy and concern for the truck driver who was simply trying to make a living.

I don't care if the guy who committed suicide was screwed up or not.
We all have things to deal with in life.
We all have been 17 and facing things that might've have been overwhelming to us.

Suicide is a choice. It was this young man's choice. So was inflicting additional pain on his mother on his way out.

I feel sympathy for people that hurt, but never for those who think they have a right to hurt others.
196 posted on 01/01/2015 4:08:04 PM PST by novemberslady
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To: Stormdog

REally? You mean to say by looking at my hands, that I am a guy? My husband, kids and I are all surprised.

Seriously, I don’t think the finger length thing is 100 percent. My hands don’t look like that, and neither do my mom’s or grandmother’s.


197 posted on 01/03/2015 7:37:32 PM PST by Cloverfarm
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