Jessica Moscatel came out as transgender in 11th-grade English class this spring. The teen asked classmates and teachers to call him Riley Matthew Moscatel from then on. Posted on 08/21/2014 8:30:05 AM PDT by Phillyred
Jessica Moscatel came out as transgender in 11th-grade English class this spring. The teen asked classmates and teachers to call him Riley Matthew Moscatel from then on.
They did.
The request met little resistance at Bucks County Technical High School, which has other transgender or openly gay students.
"Everyone supported him," said a friend, Kate Cimino, who will be a junior this year. "Everyone loved Riley. He was everyone's best friend."
But on Monday, the 17-year-old appeared to commit suicide, the county Coroner's Office said. Police recovered surveillance video that showed the teen stepping in front of an Amtrak train near his home in Bristol Township.
Coroner Joseph Campbell said Wednesday that his office was continuing to investigate the death. Efforts to reach Moscatel's family were unsuccessful.
His friends and teachers were grasping for answers Wednesday. Friends said he had suffered from depression when he was younger but had improved. However, they said he felt increasingly uncomfortable in his female body.
A note Moscatel appeared to have posted on his Instagram account Monday stated: "My mirror reflects Jessica, my heart and mind say Riley ... You see me as the happiest person in school, I'm a prisoner of my own body ..."
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Wow. That took balls.
The best way to avoid such stress is to stick with the gender God gave you.
Problem solved.
HIS home, no it’s her home and there in lies the problem.
Telling people like her that she is something she is not is not helping them at all. It is endorsing their mental sickness instead , and these kind of incidents then follow.
I remember one guy he was about 6, 2, and we walked into a bar called marina bay in Boston.
He was dressed as a woman , the people were loving him there. He knew everyone it seems and was quite a star.
I was told he thinks he;s a woman but thinks he;s a homosexual woman who loves other women.
Talk about a screwed up mind and people thought he were great, infact people there were going out of their way to say help and talk to him.
wow that is very informative, thank you for posting.
An average can be a poor statistical description if there is wide variability in the population. Sometime the median is a better description or two numbers which lay on either end of the bell curve. The population could also be bimodal with one subset averaging about 20 and the other 100+.
now that’s funny
tut, tut, tut....... such a terrible loss.
Wonder who got his phone?
That's possible ... it could also be normal, with a very large standard deviation. Trouble is, what they tell us isn't sufficient to determine which. Like I said, it's bad statistics. I suppose they're trying to reduce reality to a soundbite ... unfortunately, it seldom works.
should have seen this guy too.EEK.
That was years ago and I still remember it as if it were this year.
Not sure what was more scary ,how the people up there loved him so, or how he was acting and dressed.
Frigging mini skirt, high heels making him look another 4 inches taller,tight top with what ever was stuffed in it, massive wig and caked in make up.
Saying that this was Boston so years later he might be with a woman who likes women, and he;s thinking he;s a woman who likes women.
Not sure if I;m even making sense as it’s confusing me
Years ago I served on the local Jaycees executive board with Rick. Rick was married with I believe two kids. He was a beer drinking buddy.
Imagine my surprise (and everybody elses) when he declared hence forth he would be Rikki and began wearing dresses and the full bit. She was divorced by her wife. Her employer allowed her to continue and she developed strong insurance agency that she still owns. She has prospered in real estate dealings as well as her primary insurance business.
Those of us who remain customers from the old days can get by by addressing her as Rick, but she frowns.
Stangely believe it, she spread her good fortune to her kids and put them in businesses. They have TV commercials with the kids and her grand kids and her mother , their great grand mother. Rikki shuns the limelight and does not appear in the 3 generation commercials.
Drunk, stupid and a homo is no way to go through life son.
"Like" button. Agreed -- a sad waste, and a preventable one.
Like 21 isn’t bad enough?
Suicide by train engineer, very similar to the suicide by cop, of that “unarmed” man in Ferguson, Mo.
A lot of those “points” are utter nonsense. If you look at the link you posted, you’ll see that cite (8), which is the source of nine of the points listed, is a publication called “Is Homosexual Activity Normal,” by one Edward R. Fields. Fields is (was?) a prominent neo-Nazi, whose other publications included such wonderful thinkgs as:
“The Jew Comes to America: An Exposé of His Career,”
“Was There Really a Holocaust?: The Most Debated Question of Our Time,” and
“Documented Proof: Jews Behind Race Mixing.”
So, not much credibility there.
Don’t bother trying to disprove the statistics, call the author some names and go on your way.
Where has the author proved the statistics?
And yes, I think we should take any purported statistics published by a noted neo-Nazi and Holocaust denier with a grain of salt, to say the least.
Breaking up by text while driving?
It’s probably related to the high rate of alcohol and drug addiction. Which translates into drunk driving or some kind of mental inhibition while driving high.
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