Wednesday 31 December 2014


17 year old Leelah (Josh) Alcorn committed
suicide on Sunday December 28th by walking in
front of a tractor trailer and left a suicide note
before he died. But when her mum reacted to
her death on Facebook, she wrote something
that many folks in the gay/transgender world
are very upset about. First the mother said she
was 16 when Leelah wrote she was 17. Carla
called her Joshua instead of the name she'd
given herself, Leelah and she also refused to
acknowledge that Leelah had committed suicide
instead she wrote that she was hit by a trailer.
Meaning that she still doesn't accept who
Leelah was as a person even after she
committed suicide. After the backlash, Carla
deleted the post and removed herself from
Facebook. Leelah Alcorn blamed his suicide on
his Christian parents...

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