A Transgender 17-Year-Old Left A Suicide Note On Tumblr Plea
A Transgender 17-Year-Old Left A Suicide Note On Tumblr Pleading “Fix Society”
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Leelah Alcorn, a 17-year-old transgender girl from Kings Mills, Ohio, died on Dec. 28. A suicide note appeared on her Tumblr that evening. She had scheduled the letter to be published after her death.
She wrote that she felt "like a girl trapped in a boy's body" and had done so "ever since [she] was 4."
Leelah said: "When I was 14, I learned what transgender meant and cried of happiness. After 10 years of confusion I finally understood who I was."
But she felt she was isolated from society by her Christian family and said she was not given consent to transition on her 16th birthday, which "absolutely broke [her] heart."
At the end of her letter she included this plea:
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 ****ed up" and fix it. Fix society. Please.
RIP
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Hopefully (her) death will help some people