All the mother said was the kid was perfect the way he was and yâall act like itâs evil. Since when does telling someone theyâre perfect the way they are a bad thing? Now all of a sudden telling kids the gender they have is fine is now evil. Telling kids theyâre fine the way their gender is andâŚ
1. Pulled Leelah out of school 2. Took away any form of contact she could have had with other people on social media 3. Isolated Leelah in her room 4. Sent her to conversion therapy where she was told she was wrong and selfish for what she should believe, and told to turn to God 5. Iâm studying psychology because I wish to become a therapistâŚ.and from what Iâve gatherâŚ.not even Cognitive-Behavior therapist (those who correct thoughts that may be consider flawed and undesired behavior) would do thisâŚthis is just bad therapy. 6. Carla tried to play off her daughters suicide as an accident by saying she was hit by a car on an early morning walk 7. It was around 2 in the morning when she was hit. 8. Got her own daughters age wrong on the same post and later corrected it. 9. Ask people to pray for family and not her daughter *or even her âsonâ* (very minor beef with thatâŚ.itâs like disapproving of one major thing someone does and than noticing all the flaws afterwards) 10. She told interviewers that sheâs worried the family will be made out to be horrible people. No one is talking about her childrenâŚ.she shouldnât be worried about them. Both her and her husband howeverâŚ.they have been called horrible people. she is really only worried about her own image and her husbands image, not the childrenâs image. 11. Hasnât given her daughter a service because she is worried about protesters.
(1) That's not abuse - that's parenting. (2) Not abuse - parenting. (3) Not abuse - parenting. (4) That was wrong.
(5) Agreed.
(6) It's possible she didn't want to broadcast to the world that her daughter committed suicide. You know, as a way to honor her memory. I mean, say for example if you had a child who (random example) got drunk and did something crazy like jumped off a building because they thought they were superman. You wouldn't announce that. You'd say: "Oh they had an accident and fell."
(7) (8) Again, her daughter just died - she's allowed to make some mistakes/be shaken up about it. (9) And?
(10) Her and HER FAMILY. Children are included in family. She's mentioned the other kids in interviews. (11) So? The fact of the matter is you don't know anything about what happened outside of Leelah/Josh's PoV and her mother/father's point of view. There are three sides to every story and I think both sides are omitting from the truth a bit. Do I think her parents were mean/rude to her when they found out that she was different? Hell yeah. But do I think that their daughter was probably spiteful and doing things she shouldn't have done? Absolutely. I don't find it odd/a coincidence that she found out what "Transgender" was at the age of 14 - she would have been 14 in 2011 which is when all the BS on tumblr started about people acting like they were trans because it was the cool thing and still appears to be - though the currently trend may be otherkin/different sexualities. I'm not saying she was lying about her gender, I'm just making an observation. Her mother said she was banned from the computer from the stuff she was looking at online. It's very possible Tumblr was involved. She was an avid Tumblr user and I'm sure if you go far enough back you'll see problematic posts out the asshole. I also find it interesting about how her mother never heard the name "Leelah" until the suicide note nor did she hear anything about her being a different gender until she was that age. Transgender kids know from a young age and parents even say they have inclinations towards dressing different than the norm, etc. Point is - stop making a saint out of Leelah and demonizing her parents. It's a shame a life is lost but you don't know the whole story, nor does anybody.
