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The suicide death of transgender Leelah Alcorn has outraged Barack Obama :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Leelah_Alcorn
http://news.asiaone.com/news/world/b...sion-therapies
WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama is calling for an end to so-called conversion therapies that seek to change sexual or gender orientation of young homosexuals or transgenders. The call is in response to a petition on the White House website that was launched after the death of 17-year-old Leelah Alcorn, a transgender youth who committed suicide in December. In a note posted online before her death, Alcorn wrote about being forced to undergo conversion therapy by her parents. Obama said young people must be given the right to choose and live safely regardless of sexual orientation. "Tonight, somewhere in America, a young person, let's say a young man, will struggle to fall to sleep, wrestling alone with a secret he's held as long as he can remember," Obama said in a statement Wednesday. "What happens next depends on him, his family, as well as his friends and his teachers and his community. But it also depends on us - on the kind of society we engender, the kind of future we build."
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10-04-2015, 07:40 AM
[Sexuality]- The suicide death of transgender Leelah Alcorn has outraged Barack Obama
