Too Little, Too Late: The Harm Caused by Conversion Therapy
In December 2014, transgender teen Leelah Alcorn committed suicide. Before committing suicide, Alcorn wrote on her Tumblr page,”If you are reading this, it means that I have committed suicide and obviously failed to delete this post from my queue. Please don’t be sad, it’s for the better. The life I would’ve lived isn’t worth living in … because I’m transgender.”
Alcorn was born Joshua Ryan Alcorn and grew up outside of Cincinnati. According to the Washington Post, Alcorn “came from a conservative Christian household, which, she wrote, reacted ‘extremely negatively’ to her decision to come out as transgender.”
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