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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