Ohio Highway Section Memorializes Leelah Alcorn

[stephaniec]

Ohio Highway Section Memorializes Leelah Alcorn

http://www.advocate.com/transgender/2015/11/21/ohio-highway-section-memorializes-leelah-alcorn

The Advocate/By Sunnivie Brydum November 21 2015 4:03 PM EST

"Almost one year ago, transgender teen Leelah Alcorn took her life along a stretch of Interstate 71 near Kings Mill, Ohio. She left a handwritten suicide note for her parents, and one on Tumblr that went viral after her death, galvanizing the country around transgender issues and against the so-called conversion therapy Alcorn said she'd been subjected to. "

[Cindy]

While I sort of applaud the initiative, I still feel for the truck driver. It wasn't his fault he ended this young girls life; yet he lives with the trauma.

[stephaniec]

It would be definitely difficult for the driver to travel that section. It's like being a train engineer and constantly being afraid of someone standing on the rails.

[Dee Marshall]

I'm not going to read the article. I don't want to know where that section of road is. I am pleased that it exists, but I occasionally drive through Ohio and if I ever knowingly drove that section of road I'm certain I would break down emotionally! I feel for that trucker. I've thought about what it must be like for them. If anything like that were to happen to me I'm certain I would stop driving completely. The worst thought I have is what if that driver was trans? What if it had been our own Rainbow Dash?