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Apparent Bucks suicide points up transgender stresses
Philly.com ^

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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Pennsylvania
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I hope all the enablers are happy they did not try to find real help for this child's mental disorder. Instead they all play the game that this is just normal stuff. So sad. A society that can't see that these people need HELP not acceptance. We have drugs for every other mental condition. It's not "normal" to be down in the dumps, so here, take this pill. But to think you are another gender and that's just normal and even worthy of celebrating. Sick.
1 posted on 08/21/2014 8:30:05 AM PDT by Phillyred
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>> I hope all the enablers are happy they did not try to find real help for this child’s mental disorder

Nah, they’ll blame you instead for being insensitive or something.


2 posted on 08/21/2014 8:32:15 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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The teen asked classmates and teachers to call HER Riley Matthew Moscatel from then on.

No charge for editing...


3 posted on 08/21/2014 8:32:44 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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Apparent Bucks suicide points up transgender stresses

OR... maybe its another indication that the urge to change genders and depression are both symptoms of mental disorder.

4 posted on 08/21/2014 8:34:49 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: Phillyred

However, they said he felt increasingly uncomfortable in his female body.
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so girlie have a shower and wash your clothes...


5 posted on 08/21/2014 8:34:50 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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You can’t fix a serious mental illness with different clothes and a new haircut.


6 posted on 08/21/2014 8:37:03 AM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (Things are only going to get worse.)
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To: Phillyred

The Unintended Consequences of lazy, cowardly liberals just going along with everything.


7 posted on 08/21/2014 8:37:51 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Phillyred
Everyone Should Know These Statistics on Homosexuals


8 posted on 08/21/2014 8:38:10 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The man who damns money obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it earned it." --Ayn Rand)
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To: Phillyred

Supporting mental illness’s seldom works out well.


9 posted on 08/21/2014 8:40:13 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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I was amazed to discover that God not only created man and woman, but a third sex hesheit. When I was a kid I played with dolls, but they were called G.I.Joe while my sister played with a similar piece of plastic and she called it Barbie. Sexual identity develops as the brain develops and by confusing our youth with insecurities about their sexuality or with the void of a role model( as in a male daddy and female mommy) stir in some more confusion with the daily television shows ( can't wait for the homosexual bachelor show and then homosexual bachelorette). Political correctness gone amock
10 posted on 08/21/2014 8:41:43 AM PDT by shadeaud (Be strong when you are weak and stand up for our Constitution.)
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Hmmmmm. Mentally deranged individual commits suicide.

Dog bites man.
Sun rises in east.
Francisco Franco still dead.


11 posted on 08/21/2014 8:44:01 AM PDT by IronJack
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“The teen asked classmates and teachers to call him...”

Him? So, “he” had a penis then? That’s how you can tell, you know...


12 posted on 08/21/2014 8:45:40 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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getting up to pee in the middle of the night to realize your wiener is missing would be stressful!


13 posted on 08/21/2014 8:46:04 AM PDT by MNDude
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The problem with killing yourself by Amtrak train, is you immediately screw up thousands of other people lives for a day. This is a very selfish way to end it all.


14 posted on 08/21/2014 8:54:26 AM PDT by not2be4gotten.com
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To: Phillyred; Gene Eric; Tennessee Nana; skeeter; Brooklyn Attitude; blueunicorn6; ...

Related article:

Johns Hopkins Psychiatrist: Transgender is a ‘Mental Disorder’ – Sex Change is ‘Biologically Impossible’

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3195117/posts


15 posted on 08/21/2014 8:57:29 AM PDT by jonno (Having an opinion is not the same as having the answer...)
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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.

Of course there was little resistance. What do you think would have happened to any student who dared to suggest that this was not normal, and maybe, just maybe, "Riley" was suffering from serious psychological problems? At the very least, that student would have been suspended, forced to apologize, and ordered to attend "sensitivity training." Any teacher who dared question the situation would be out of a job.

16 posted on 08/21/2014 8:58:19 AM PDT by GreenHornet
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So Ms Jessica Moscatel became a Him by making a simple declaration in Her English class? I guess I can stand in the street and Declare I am changing my status to be, instead of a loyal to the USA taxpayer, that I am now the President of the USA?


17 posted on 08/21/2014 9:00:36 AM PDT by Red_Devil 232 ((VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!))
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‘So Ms Jessica Moscatel became a Him by making a simple declaration in Her English class?”

Oh.if only that were true——I’d be a 19 year old young woman again.:-)

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18 posted on 08/21/2014 9:02:45 AM PDT by Mears
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To: Phillyred

A person with obvious psychiatric problems who didn’t get needed treatment.


19 posted on 08/21/2014 9:05:15 AM PDT by PAR35
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“Homosexuals are 19 times more likely to die in a traffic accident”

Traffic accidents? that seems kinda weird, wonder what would cause that.


20 posted on 08/21/2014 9:07:04 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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