Funeral for Transgender Teen Leelah Alcorn Moved Because of 'Threats'

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Source: NBC News

The funeral for an Ohio transgender teen whose death and suicide note struck a chord across the country was moved Friday and held privately after threats against the family. Leelah Alcorn, 17, died Sunday after writing in an online diary that her parents didn't accept that she identified as female.

Tim Tripp, the family minister at Northeast Church of Christ in Cincinnati, told NBC News the funeral had been moved to a private location because "the times and dates had been publicized, and the family's received threats." Tripp wouldn't specify what threats surrounded the funeral, other than to say the family had heard there would be "disruptions." Mourners arriving at the church Friday found a sign on the door announcing the service's postponement. Jeff Hartmann, of Hodapp Funeral Home, said the private service was held there Friday morning. He said Alcorn's body was to be cremated.

The teen's death sparked petitions calling for her gravestone to have the name Leelah, instead of the name Joshua, which she was given at birth. Another petition, which had garnered more than 200,000 supporters by Friday afternoon, called for a ban of conversion therapy, which Alcorn said her parents had sought for her.



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Very sad. And very infuriating. (smh)

[jtuck004]

1. Broken children are the future as long as they are being trained and taught by the broken adults

of the present.

[Dont call me Shirley]

2. So sadly true.

[RKP5637]

3. So sad our society has so many haters! Those that just have to hate to feel good themselves!

So pathetic and sick to be a hater.

[Humanist_Activist]

12. Who are you talking about?

[RKP5637]

13. ? those making the threats! n/t

[Humanist_Activist]

14. And not the transphobic parents who drove their daughter to suicide?

There's a reason for the "hate", after all.

[RKP5637]

15. Ah, I see what you mean! n/t

[Humanist_Activist]

16. Honestly speaking, this funeral is an insult to their daughter, her own mother slandered her...

on TV, for fuck's sake. They have no shame, because they think they are doing what their god wants.

[RKP5637]

17. It's incredible the extent some will go to push their horrific beliefs onto others

as these parents. When I was a very small child the daughter of the family across the street had a lot of mental issues.

I was very young, but only knew she stared and stared into space and always dressed in black and veils in the heat of summer and all year around.

They were from the old country. Years later the lady across the street told my mother the daughter had had an illegitimate child and her husband with his religion and upbringing literally drove his daughter insane with all of the verbal abuse he endlessly heaped on her at home. She developed tremendous guilt and a severe depression. I feel so sorry for children trapped with horrific parents like this.

[shenmue]

4. ...

[crim son]

5. I feel rage, helpless rage.

The child killed herself because these same people made her life intolerable. But the publicity... well I hope good people notice and her death has the greater meaning she wished for.

[VA_Jill]

6. Church of Christ

That explains a LOT!

[FLPanhandle]

7. Who would threaten or disrupt a family's funeral?

And so many that the family had to secretly have a funeral?

[Blue_Adept]

8. A lot of people would

Because they blame the parents for the child's death what they they did. So they intend to protest against said parents.

In the eyes of many who have read deeply on this in the last days, the parents are pretty much viewed as the murderers in this case.

[Humanist_Activist]

11. Considering the last thing their daughter said to them was...

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"Fuck you. You can’t just control other people like that. That’s messed up."

There's not much to look deeply at.

[Posteritatis]

9. The family is the immediate cause of the funeral

They drove her to kill herself in the first place, and then went into PR mode for a few days claiming she actually died in an 'accident,' all the while referring to her as male.

[Humanist_Activist]

10. The parents are pieces of shit, for one, transphobic shithead who directly contributed...

to her death, frankly I feel they belong in jail.