Rest In Peace, Leelah Alcorn

This. Is. Not. Okay.

I don't care whether you are a

• Child
• Teacher
• Parent
• Grandparent
• Uncle
• Weird Aunt who lives next door

I don't care whether you are

• Catholic
• Buddhist
• Christian
• Muslim
• or a member of the Cult of the Flying Spaghetti Monster

I don't care whether you are

• Black
• White
• Asian
• Middle-Eastern
• African
• Mexican
• I don't care if you're fucking purple

This is not okay.

I don't even care what the circumstance is. Whether the person killed themselves because they're bullied, transgender, homosexual, lesbian, bisexual, pansexual, asexual, or because they think they're ugly, hated, unloved, uncared for, unwelcome. In this case, a transgender woman posted this suicide note on Tumblr before getting hit by a truck and died on December 30th, in the final moments of 2014.

When a person kills themselves, they view that is the only option. The one path that will work absolutely. Death holds no rules, and knows no bounds. When a person kills themselves, they have tried every solution, and found none. Suicide is a last resort.

And what drove them to that last resort?

In this case, it was her own parents.

As parents, your top priority is safety and happiness.
Your child is not safe and not happy if they are driven to the brink of their final resort because they believed that they were unloved for who they truly are. Being who they are--in this case, being transgender--is perfectly safe, and would make them happy. So why not?

I am both angry and disgusted at this, and I greatly motion others to feel the same.
This is not okay.

"The only way I will rest in peace is if one day transgender people aren't treated the way I was, they're treated like humans, with valid feelings and human rights."

I hate the phrase "RIP" so I'm going to say what it really means.
Rest in peace.
Rest in peace, Leelah Alcorn. One day transgender people will be treated like the human beings they are.

Rest in peace.

~Snickerdoodle~