tw: suicide, transmisogyny
frankly until people who are named in childrens’ suicide notes as being reasons for their wanting to end their own lives are charged with child neglect or familial abuse or SOMETHING i will not rest. leelah alcorn was 17, she was a teenager and still legally a child. she was still in high school. her own parents drove her to suicide and even after her death continue to pretend that leelah was a boy and that she didn’t commit suicide. her mother’s facebook post discusses the suicide like it was an accident — “out for an early morning walk”, “hit by a truck.” leelah was out several miles from her parents’ house walking along a busy expressway at TWO O’CLOCK IN THE MORNING. she wrote a suicide note and scheduled it to be posted if she didn’t return.
she was driven to suicide. her parents killed her.
suicide isn’t a choice. it’s never a choice. suicide can’t be a choice if it’s the only option left.