While a tragic event for sure, I was pleased to see that NBC Nightly News was using the proper pronouns when referring to Leelah in their report on it tonight.
Apparently WCPO (our local ABC affiliate) put a piece up on their site apologizing too.
bleh that's terrible, I truly hope we get to the world needed for you to rest in piece Leelah, but I lament that it may take a while.
The words, "Fix society. Please," have given me a big case of the feels.
If you can't love your LGBTQ kids enough to give them hope enough to live you don't get to call yourself pro-life #FixSociety #LeelahAlcorn
— Matt Oxley (@RevOxley) December 31, 2014
The article alone seems ample evidence of what the teen was going through.
Apparently Leelah posted to r/asktransgender two months ago asking about whether or not her parent's treatment of her should be considered abusive. Not a pleasant read considering we now know where it led.
"They loved their son so much that they killed their daughter."
Interview with Emily brothers, labours first trans MP.
Possible trigger warning due to the attitude of her truly awful parents
I love that guy. Chu may have been a villain (whatever that means) on Jeopardy! but he's been quite a good person as far as I can tell.
I love that guy. Chu may have been a villain (whatever that means) on Jeopardy! but he's been quite a good person as far as I can tell.
When I was 13, I had just discovered Quake. I thought i was REALLY good at it. I played at home a lot and even beat a few people on my 2600 baud modem.
When my friends and I secretly installed quake on the school computers, I was destroyed by this 12 year old. I was furious that I had been so completely destroyed by him. See -- he used the mouse. Back when I was thirteen, I used the arrow keys to play -- I didn't learn WASD + mouse till this kid.
Arthur Chu is that kid. He's the upstart who figured out a better way to play a game that no other human had implemented. So, yeah. he's a villain. He's a villain to the idiots who are jealous they didn't think of it first.
Tumblr deleted Leelah Alcorn's entire blog.
Lots of people throwing around speculation that her parents requested that. Fortunately it looks like a lot of news outlets intend to keep her letter on their sites.
Something I found out, also, she posted on reddit about her situation.
I don't have a link, but a recent FB post from my alma mater group, the University of Michigan Men's Glee Club, included the language that "any student self-identifying as male is welcome to audition" in a week...
whatever you might feel about a Men's Glee Club or a Women's Glee Club in general...I got choked up and thought of how much you all have changed my life, and opened my worldview to a better place.
Yeh team.
Can anyone point me to a group organizing to create and pass Leelah's Law? I'd like to know this is going past the online petition stage.
Quick question: is Leelah's Law meant to ban malpractice among therapists or does it also include criminal charges for parents? I full heartedly support the first but would find the second problematic for the same reason I don't support the new laws prosecuting young pregnant mothers for drug use.
It's limited to banning conversion therapy federally, which three states already do, and nine more in the process of doing.
I'm with you on that. If I had my way anyone practicing that therapy or subjecting their child to it would be facing charges, and in the case of the Alcorns, at the very least negligent homicide.
Yeah, it's great that legitimate, state-licensed professionals would have an incentive to stay away, but I have a feeling the real danger is them what is licensed by God.
I agree with SoCham. This is child abuse and needs to be treated as such.
Russia has listed Transexual and Transgender people among those no longer eligible for drivers licenses.
Fetishism, exhibitionism and voyeurism are also included as "mental disorders" now barring people from driving. The government says it is tightening medical controls for drivers because Russia has too many road accidents.
Because of the Road Accidents. Suuuuuuuure.
Yes, all those road accidents are because of fetishism, exhibitionism, and voyeurism and totally not because of the rampant abuse of alcohol.
This is so stupid I can't stop laughing.
Yes, all those road accidents are because of fetishism, exhibitionism, and voyeurism and totally not because of the rampant abuse of alcohol.
To be fair, it's really hard to drive safely in head-to-toe skintight latex, while simultaneously flashing your bits to other motorists and perving on them as you do so.
Oh, completely deliberate. Continue to treat them worse and worse for as much as public support based upon the PR campaign against them works more and more. It's despicable.
Stupid, yes but most likely deliberate as well.
Violence and prejudice against LGBT people in Russia is significant and getting worse. Anti-gay violence is at best, ignored by the authorities, at worst encouraged.
I for one would not like to be one of those now forced to walk or take public transportation to get from A to B without the relative safety of a car.
in reference to the propoganda law introduced last year...
"Homophobes feel like they have a legal basis for their hatred now," Ivan says of the gay propaganda law. "They feel they can beat someone for being gay and they're protected."The law - an amendment to child protection legislation - was introduced in several regions before being adopted nationwide.
Its chief sponsor in Russia's second city is Vitaly Milonov, a local deputy whose office at the palatial City Hall is filled with religious paraphernalia. Russian icons cover the walls and shelves beside a black flag bearing a skull and cross-bones. Another black banner proclaims "Orthodoxy or Death" in Greek.
Mr Milonov justifies the law with reference to Russia's traditional, Christian values. He insists that homosexuality is a sin and homosexuals an enemy within, backed by a perverted West.
Yes, all those road accidents are because of fetishism, exhibitionism, and voyeurism and totally not because of the rampant abuse of alcohol.
Or those thousands of videos of people jumping in front of cars.
Isn't Russia one of the Eastern European countries were dash cams for everyone are necessary thanks to the number of accidents?
Isn't Russia one of the Eastern European countries were dash cams for everyone are necessary thanks to the
number of accidentscorruptness of the police and judicial system?
Isn't Russia one of the Eastern European countries were dash cams for everyone are necessary thanks to the number of accidents?
More for catching insurance fraud, I've heard. Like Bonus said, people pretending to be hit.
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