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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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From: Brumar891/13/2015 8:14:15 PM
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Alice_Everett Bruce a day ago

I find it abhorrent that you are eager to condemn the suicide of a young woman who felt desperately trapped, but you are also very, very, veeeeeeerrrrry willing to consistently misgender her in public after her death.

Leelah Alcorn was not a "he" or a "he/she". She was a teenage girl. If she had lived, she would have grown to be a woman.

There is no way to coherently convey just how angry it makes me to see people referring to this dead baby girl as a boy or a man when they have been told that this behavior directly contributed to her suicide. It is awful. It is really, really, really shitty behavior.

You genuinely think suicide is never the answer? If you cannot positively engage in making the world a better place for trans children, then please I am actually begging you to stop spitefully and maliciously misgendering people who are incredibly vulnerable.

L'Anne Bruce • a day ago

To be honest, I can't say she should or should not have committed suicide because I cannot live her life. I cannot in good conscience judge that decision, not knowing and sharing her life, feelings, experiences, and reality.

Do I wish she hadn't committed suicide? Of course! But because I think her voice mattered and could add to our world. But using should indicates a value judgement that I'm not qualified to make. I've been othered. I've been an outsider. I've been treated with hostility. I've felt isolated and desperate. But I cannot really experience someone else's life and thus I can't judge their choices. I know what I've done when I've felt alone and desperate, and it is preposterous of me to assume that another person should do what I did just because what I did made sense for me at those points in my life.
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