Transgender Youth's Tragic Suicide Galvanizes Movement

Deidre Fulton @ Common Dreams - The apparent suicide of 17-year-old Leelah Alcorn, a transgender girl from Ohio who documented her struggle and loneliness online, is galvanizing a movement against transphobia.

Several vigils are planned in the U.S. and Canada for Friday and Saturday; petitions calling for Alcorn's family to use her chosen name on her headstone...read more.