Refusing to accept your child's true sexual identity is part of their faith. They are living according to the tenets of their faith and, again I don't agree with them/it, you can't claim to respect faith and then deny its manifestation.

Congrats, you found a medical expert who agrees with you. Next up, would you like to prove a link between vaccines and autism? Maybe show how global warming is all leftist propaganda?

Exactly. I don't deny that her parents are in pain and grieving. But any parent who claims to love their child and yet treats them so contemptuously has a seriously underdeveloped and/or repressed capacity for experiencing full love. That their version of Christianity professes this same warped "love" is not a…

No.

I really don't think it's fair to call suicide attempts or acts bullshit, even if you are within the community in question. And I don't understand why you are so adamantly opposed to people caring for the health and happiness of trans teens. The fear that these kids want to die is a pretty legitimate one. No…

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This post deserves some Idris Elba laughter.

It's not trans teens activists believe need to read this. It's cis people who need to read it and comprehend what refusing to accept a person's identity can do to them.

It isn't retribution. It isn't a threat. It isn't kids having a temper tantrum because they want to do what they want. It's simply a statistical reality that suicide rates are frighteningly high among trans kids and that often having a family that isn't supportive is a contributing factor to the kid's depression…

Threats to have gay people and/or trans people and/or other members of the great unwashed show up at the funeral, presumably. That would indeed be terrible, as we all know that Jesus only spent time hanging out with people who were already perfect and without sin.

I understand the point countesslemongrab was making; I just disagree. Vehemently. You get no credit in my book for "loving" your children if you reject them so fundamentally and treat them so poorly. Love had to be something you do, otherwise what's the point?

Of course they got death threats. Jesus, I get them and I haven't done anything notable.

To quote Leelah herself:

LOL at the implication that religion is a "real reason" for being a shitty parent who drives a child to suicide. All those parents who were shitty because they were dealing with addiction, mental health issues, or other reasons are lost causes and can be freely condemned, but the religious bigots get a pass.

Yeah, I'm sure they received maybe a few, completely non-credible actual threats. That said, what I bet they really wanted to do was memorialize their daughter using terms she actively fought against, a name she rejected, and dressed in the wrong gender. They wanted to have a memorial to the fictional son they…

What about respect for Leelah?

Call me suspicious, but my guess is the "threats" were more along the lines of trans supporters coming to the funeral rather than any harm to the family. The "threat" was people not letting them pretend they were having a funeral a son who died in a tragic accident because people would be there loudly proclaiming that…

if there were any threats, it was from bigots for making some 'unatural/queer/blah blah' person.

"Tim Tripp, pastor of the Northeast Church of Christ in Cincinnati, told NBC News that the funeral was moved because "the times and dates had been publicized, and the family's received threats." He also said that the family had heard there would be "disruptions" to her service"

"Grendel," by John Gardner. It is a nuanced, tragic, darkly comic exploration of the importance of storytelling, as well as of the concept that the victors/winners/rulers get to spin the tales.