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January 6, 2015

Suicide of Transgender Teen Sparks Mass Call to Ban "Conversion Therapy" 
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A petition to ban so-called conversion therapy for transgender people
has received nearly 300,000 signatures on Change.org following the
suicide late last month of Leelah Alcorn. Alcorn was a 17-year-old
transgender woman who walked into traffic after leaving a suicide note
describing how she suffered from conversion therapy and attempts by her
Christian parents to change her. She wrote, "My death needs to mean
something. My death needs to be counted in the number of transgender
people who commit suicide this year. ... Fix society. Please."

 

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