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RIP Leelah Alcorn (15-11-1997 - 28-12-2014)

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WARNING! This deviation and the following text talks about a trans woman named Leelah Alcorn who committed suicide on December 28 2014. If any of this bothers you so much,  then please click the back or the "X" button. 

I was on Tumblr one eve, and then I came across a post on my dash - A screenshot of Carla Alcorn's message on her FaceBook page. With a report window opened up, to be filed under misgendering. I didn't have a clue what that was about at first, until my dash got updated and updated with tweets, apps, and reactions regarding to this "Leelah Alcorn" person. And then it struck me. I opened Google to find more informations about Leelah and her death, and I just cannot believe it...
She left her suicide note on Tumblr to simply say farewell to life and the people who supported her from the very beginning, and that she'll rest in peace if schools will teach children/teenagers/young adults about genders, and that the next generation trans people won't be treated the same as way she was. Leelah's parents abused her, took her important possessions away from her for 5 months, kicked her out of school, isolated her, and inflicted shame on her saying she's an embarassment to the 'family' and their image. 

To top it off, her parents are bigoted strict religious transphobes, their rediculous actions drove their own daughter to end her own life because she cannot be transformed into a woman, and couldn't take it any longer.
And you know what else? She was THREE days away from 2015. She couldn't make it because her parents kept refusing her needs to become a beautiful woman, rather than a straight christian boy. 
And from what I heard, they strictly believe that committing suicide is a "selfish act" <- That statement right there, makes me want to punch them in the face so hard that they'll look like vaginas. And in Carla's FaceBook message said that her "son" got into a accident, and claims she was devastated when she heard about the incident. Which sounds like a load of barnacles to me. Because, we all know she didn't give two fucks about her daughter at all, and did absolutely give no fucks either about how lonely Leelah was when they forbid her to be on any of the social media websites such as Tumblr, FaceBook, and I think maybe Twittr. Her final wish is that her death will mean something, that it'll never be forgotten and not erased. 

After hearng, reading deeply about all of this, I wonder what Pope Francis has to say about this. Considering he supports homosexuals and he has done many good things in the world that gave us all hope in humanity. And he's a good example of being a true, and good christian. He actually understands how the Bible really works, and he makes choices in life wisely.

If anyone is still confused who Leelah was, go read this WikiArticle en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leelah_A…

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I spent the whole B.N.Y.E. (Before new year's eve) drawing this to give tribute to Leelah Alcorn who didn't make it to 2015. Here's my Spyro OC Digalay standing in front of Leelah's gravestone to mourn that she just couldn't make it to 2K15, and that her parents were selfish enough to put "Joshua" on the stone instead of Leelah. Which upsets Diggy even more that the candle burning for her died down. 
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HP Scanjet dj_d02c
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Jan 1, 2015, 3:59:25 PM
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I truly apologize for your loss, and it hurts me to realize back to notice that familiar sign. It happened with a friend of mine, fighting his own obstacle only with a different reason of his. I felt pause and deprive when o found out weeks before my last Halloween 2015 in Hawaii.