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user-inactivated  ·  3601 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Study correlates transgender discrimination with suicide attempts

now just think about all the trans people who kill themselves without telling anyone, or the trans people who are successfully covered up by their families.

take the recent example of leelah alcorn. if she hadn't posted a suicide note on Tumblr where her parents couldn't get to it, or the note had simply gone by unnoticed like most other trans suicides, this would have been her story: