“She wrote that she felt “like a girl trapped in a boy’s body” and had done so “ever since [she] was 4.”
Leelah said: “When I was 14, I learned what transgender meant and cried of happiness. After 10 years of confusion I finally understood who I was.”
But she felt she was isolated from society by her Christian family and said she was not given consent to transition on her 16th birthday, which “absolutely broke [her] heart.””
Read More Here: http://www.buzzfeed.com/jobarrow/a-transgender-17-year-old-left-a-suicide-note-on-tumblr-plea
Ana Kasparian (http://www.twitter.com/AnaKasparian) and Cenk Uygur (http://www.twitter.com/cenkuygur) break it down on The Young Turks.
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