May this woman grow old in a world that increasingly allows transgender people their due rights and chances to excel and succeed, so that she may die knowing her bigotry killed a young girl who had a lot to give.

This whole article is so eerie to me, because everything here that the mother has said mirrors exactly the conversation my beautiful (transwoman) wife and I had with my own mother this Christmas Day. So, so sad.

Of course she doesn't like the obvious. Nobody wants to believe they're the reason someone else killed themself. Even if it's true. I hope some parent out there in a similar situation sees how obtuse this mom is being and has a reality check before their kid ends up like Leelah. I really do.

I think she loved the idea of her child, and who she thought her child should be, but not the reality of who she was. It's sadly common, not just parent to kid but in all sorts of relationships. I refuse to write most people off as evil, though there are of course exceptions. I try to understand people, even the worst…

What am I doing with the rest of my life? Well, my much-longed-and-planned-for child was born two weeks ago via surrogate. This has been a long and heartbreaking road, but it ended here...I am typing with a baby sleeping on my shoulder. I am a mom, the Mr is a dad, and we are a family with a person-baby in addition to…

It's not about making thin white girls feel like shit, it's about giving all the other girls in all the other sizes representation because fashion sorely lacks in anything other than the thin+white combo. You are beautiful and worthy, and you also have pretty much every brand imaginable representing you. Women who…

Also my husband asked me for a divorce via text message. ..on my birthday. He kept my dog. I wish I was making this up. May you rot in hell 2014! Don't let the door hit you on your way out!

I fucking hate my husband. Hate him. Hate his character. He is a misogonyst, racist, power hunger asshole training to be a cop of all people. I'm so scared of how he is going to be with a gun in his hands. He keeps saying, "I'll get training, I'll get training," but they can't train his lack of impulse control out of…

I'll try to make this a short and sweet as possible. I stumbled upon Jezebel through I09 because I am a nerd and I do nerd shit. I'm an empathetic type of guy but I never really delved too deeply into the concept of feminism. Until I started reading articles on Jez. Of course I love the puns and snarky comments. But…

Not to start my own business and not quite a thousand miles away, but I did quit an excellent, stable job where I was making good money to not work and make art for a while. One of the greatest decisions I've ever made. I think there's almost no chance that you'll regret doing it, and a very good chance that you'll…

I'm setting damn boundaries with my narcissistic mom and texting instead of calling tonight. Enough is enough. 2015 is the year of low contact (very low) with narc Mom! Woohoo!

Holy poopnoodles. I researched this guy (i.e. googled) and he is seriously unhinged. He runs a website called crimesagainstfathers that's full of his delusional rantings about how his children have betrayed him and he has the right to punish them and if they don't respond to his ultimatums, he will consider killing…

MRAs expect womenz to troll their sites the way they troll this one. They're under the delusion that the womenz actually want their attention, the way MRA trolls desperately try to get the attention of the womenz here.

So kinda like racists then. They take their anger out on minorities (not the people who look like them who really keep them low on the totem pole) because they have to feel superior to someone.

New Years' 2000 it snowed in my Louisiana town, which it NEVER does. A friend's dad shut down his RURAL bar for the night so his daughter and her friends could party there, which was great, cause I was only 19, as were most of us. Anything we wanted to try, we could, so I learned about all kinds of liquors, and we all…

Disclaimer...this did not happen on NYE. The story is entitled "starfish regenerator."

I'm so sorry about your plan switch. I'm serious. I had several people try to talk me into various levels of partying tonight but fuck that noise. Jammies, snacks, MarioWorld 3D, Netflix, Prosecco and a toasty fire. Hoping the neighbors across the lake do their fireworks display so I can catch that.

In my small town the thing to do on New Years when you were a teen was to go to the skating rink and take part in a "Lock-In", where they lock the doors and you skate and "party" all night (which meant 1am).

Not worst, but really stupid. One year, four friends and I took the train to Toronto from Detroit for NYE. Tale as old as time, we were 19 so we got absolutely hammered at a bar almost exclusively on Jager bombs. I couldn't tell you if we even made it to midnight, at some point we were jettisoned out of the bar early…

I only wish I'd been shitting back then.