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Transgender Homecoming King Dies From Apparent Suicide: Report
msn.com ^ | 03/25/2015 | Maria Vultaggio

Posted on 03/25/2015 5:21:49 PM PDT by massmike

A year after Blake Brockington was voted homecoming king at East Mecklenburg High School in Charlotte, North Carolina, the transgender teen died from an apparent suicide, The Charlotte Observer reported Tuesday. Brockington, 18, was the school’s first transgender homecoming king.

When he was voted king, he told local LGBT newspaper QNotes: "I honestly feel like this is something I have to do. Nobody should be scared to be themselves, and everybody should have an equal opportunity to have an enjoyable high school experience."

The transgender youth activist became open about his identity when he was a sophomore. He explained to the Charlotte Observer in January that he never felt comfortable wearing dresses, even though he but was still forced to wear them. “It didn’t make sense. I felt like a boy," he said.

Brockington’s untimely death echoes the passing of Leelah Alcorn, the Ohio teen who scheduled her suicide note to appear on Tumblr hours after she committed suicide. Like Brockington, her parents did not accept her and her mother told her “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: North Carolina
KEYWORDS: homosexualagenda; mentalillness; suicide; teens
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To: massmike
Nobody should be scared to be themselves

Transsexuals don't want to be themselves, they want to be something else.

And I agree with those who say we should be treating this as the illness it is, not promoting it.

61 posted on 03/26/2015 3:32:38 PM PDT by TwelveOfTwenty (See my home page for some of my answers to the left's talking points.)
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To: GeronL

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3106674/posts?page=72

That it?


62 posted on 04/04/2015 10:43:40 PM PDT by Impy (They pull a knife, you pull a gun. That's the CHICAGO WAY, and that's how you beat the rats!)
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To: Impy

Yes, that is the thread I remember


63 posted on 04/04/2015 10:45:26 PM PDT by GeronL (CLEARLY CRUZ 2016)
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To: GeronL

Unreal attitude!


64 posted on 04/04/2015 10:47:51 PM PDT by Impy (They pull a knife, you pull a gun. That's the CHICAGO WAY, and that's how you beat the rats!)
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To: Impy

a bit sad, a bit scary and a lot funny. lol


65 posted on 04/04/2015 10:50:41 PM PDT by GeronL (CLEARLY CRUZ 2016)
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