Bullying’s cost: Transgender Racine student commits suicide

[KamaAina]

http://journaltimes.com/news/local/bullying-s-cost-transgender-racine-student-commits-suicide/article_da21839e-7fac-558a-9987-4102784fa259.html

Cameron Langrell was a teenage boy who felt trapped in the wrong body.

The 15-year-old freshman at Horlick High School recently announced on Facebook that he was transgender. He wrote that he was dating another boy and changed his profile gender to “female.”

A few days after his announcement, he was dead. Family members feel it was because of bullying....

“He was always bullied for being feminine,” Jamie Olender said. “We told him to be who you are.”

Every. Damn. Day.

[NuclearDem]

1. Jesus fucking Christ.

Enough is enough.

[Trillo]

2. Another one.

To me the saddest thing is that the folks who did the bullying probably got a cheer from creating such misery.

[AgingAmerican]

5. This has been happening for a long, long time

The issue is finally becoming prominent.

[Suji to Seoul]

3. and the school did nothing to stop it.

[Puzzledtraveller]

4. If I had the courage Cameron did I wonder how long I would have lasted.

That is to say, I couldn't imagine having come out at that age and being able to withstand the bullying and alienation by friends. That is why 27 years later I still haven't, to anyone.

[FLPanhandle]

6. The parents were braver than I'm afraid I would have been

I'm not sure if he was my son that I would encourage him to be so out of the closet in that environment, because I'd worry too much about the bullying and his safty.

On the other hand, how do you tell your son not to be himself?

I'd like to think I'd have been as supportive about being so open in HS, but I don't know...