Fix Society: So Far, We’ve Failed Leelah
4 min readDec 28, 2020
On December 28th, 2014, an Ohio transgender teenager named Leelah Alcorn ended her life by stepping in front of an on-coming semi-trailer. She was 17. In the hours after her death, a note set to automatically upload to her blog listed her reasons for taking her own life.
Her note detailed her story of self-realization and the subsequent transphobic abuse she suffered at the hands of her…
