Leelah Alcorn

Pence and other political “leaders” who support these draconian measures should talk to people who have been impacted the most.

“I felt like somebody came with a key and opened the cage and said you’re free to go.”

An Ohio man needs help to preserve the memory of the transgender teen whose suicide note pleaded “Fix society, please.”

17-year-old Leelah Alcorn urged people on social media to “fix society” before stepping in front of a tractor trailer in southwest Ohio.

The death of a troubled transgender teenager who begged people to fix society has been deemed a suicide.

Another transgender teen has taken his own life, leaving behind a suicide note describing sexual trauma and alleged bullying by family members.

Although many details about her life and death are still unclear, Leelah Alcorn, a transgender teen from Ohio, has become, within days of her death Dec. 28, the face of a growing movement of people hungering for acceptance.

More than 300 people gathered in the nation’s capital on Saturday raise awareness of issues facing transgender individuals and to honor a 17-year-old transgender teen who took her own life last month.

Guest hosting on ABC’s “The View” on Thursday, transgender actress Laverne Cox responds to the death of Leelah Alcorn, a 17-year-old transgender teen who died by suicide just days after Christmas.

On Dec. 29, Leelah Alcorn, a transgender teen from Ohio, stepped into the path of an oncoming semi truck on a interstate highway. Today, “The Talk” discusses transgender teen suicide.