Leelah Alcorn, the girl who has captured the heart of the world, after her suicide. Leelah was born Joshua Ryan Alcorn, on the 15th November 1997 in Ohio, USA and died on the 28th December 2014, aged 17. Making her the same age I am, as I write this article. Leelah was transgender, hence why she had changed her name despite her parents refusal to see this and it is because of her parents refusal to understand and accept Leelah for who she is she ended her life. But furthermore her parents rejection of who she was, Leelah will be cremated and the name on her tomb will be Joshua Ryan. Not Leelah. Moreover her parents also seem unaware that their lack of acknowledgment and love of who she was led her to end her life. As even post suicide her own mother refers to her as my son.
Leelehs parents were christian, so being gay, transgendered or even bisexual are forsaken within their religion, additionally so is cremation. Which leads the public to question how true their faiths were, as is was written on Leelahs blog, which has now been removed from tumblr, that her parents stated that she was going to be 'sent to hell' along with many other things, making her hate her religion and then later her parents.
The whole world has reacted to Leelahs death, as the year is now 2015 and people are still being pressured to do things because of the 'way they are' this should be abolished like the segeration laws which American had until the 1960s because just because someone has a different skin colour to you it doesn't mean you have the right to tell them what to do. And just because someones sexuality is different to yours doesn't mean that you shouldn't accept them for who they are. As we are all human. Here are a view images off tumblr showing how the world has reacted to Leelahs death.
Ashxs xxx
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