page_title: Suicide of Leelah Alcorn
section_title: Reactions
hierarchical_section_title: Suicide of Leelah Alcorn / Reactions
caption_attribution_description: English: A tribute to the beautiful little girl, Leelah. (Long haired version, the hairstyle she wanted.)
context_page_description: Leelah Alcorn was an transgender American girl. On December 28, 2014, she killed herself because her parents did not respect her gender identity. They made her learn lessons at home and forced her to go to conversion therapy in order to force her to accept her birth gender. After Alcorn died, many laws were made in order to stop discrimination against trans people.
context_section_description: Many people were sad that Leelah Alcorn died and that she was treated wrong by her parents. They thought that she was a victim of her parent's transphobia.
caption: A picture someone drew to honor Leelah Alcorn with the words "Rest in power Leelah Alcorn the Queen." Leelah did not have long hair when she was alive, but she wanted to.
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