![]() ![]() ![]() Leelah's mother Carla Wood Alcorn posted a tribute to her child on her Facebook, but referred to Leelah as her 'son', used her birth name, and made no mention of a suicide. Local media and Leelah's former high school in Kings Mill have reported on the tragic news using her birth name Joshua. Either I live the rest of my life as a lonely man who wishes he were a woman or I live my life as a lonelier woman who hates herself. Leelah then adds: 'I’m never going to be happy. 'On my 16th birthday, when I didn’t receive consent from my parents to start transitioning, I cried myself to sleep.' 'They wanted me to be their perfect little straight Christian boy, and that’s obviously not what I wanted.' They felt like I was attacking their image, and that I was an embarrassment to them. 'Although the reaction from my friends was positive, my parents were pissed. 'I formed a sort of a “f*** you” attitude towards my parents and came out as gay at school, thinking that maybe if I eased into coming out as trans it would be less of a shock. Leelah goes on to reveal that her parents refused to allow her to transition and instead took her to 'Christian therapists' who told her that she was 'selfish and wrong'. The 17-year-old high school student wrote in her suicide note that despite identifying as a girl from the age of four, her devout Christian parents refused to allow her to transition ![]()
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