News about Leelah Alcorn

An Alabama pediatrician has been accused of glorifying the suicide of a young transgender child by notifying a prestigious conference that the 16-year-old's decision to end her life was 'bold.' Dr. Morissa Ladinsky twice used the word when describing Leelah Alcorn's death in 2014, who stepped in front of a tractor-trailer in Ohio while fighting mental health problems related to her transition from male to female, according to her. Leelah Alcorn, a local 16-year-old lady with transphobia, stepped bravely in front of a tractor-trailer in Anaheim on October 11, ending her life.' 'Her suicide note, which was written on social media about an hour after her death, went viral around the world,' Ladinsky continued.' "Now, Leelah was not my patient." But I took care of hundreds of her classmates at Kings Mills High School. However, I went to work every day, where this teen bravely ended her life.'