At a recent conference of her peers, Morissa Ladinsky, a leader of the Youth Multidisciplinary Gender Team at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, praised a child for “boldly” stepping in front of a truck.
“And in the final days of 2014, a local 16 year old young lady, Leelah Alcorn, of trans experience, stepped boldly in front of the tractor-trailer, ending her life,” Ladinsky says in a video posted to Twitter.
She went on to use the same phrase again, with emphasis.
In a 2021 op-ed at the Birmingham News, Ladinsky claimed that almost half of transgender youth “embark on suicide during their journeys” due to “internalized guilt, confusion, shame and sense of defeat.”
Written as a response to proposed state legislation that would prohibit pediatric transition and require parental notification, the op-ed is titled “I’m a doctor and Alabama could arrest me for doing my job.”
A job which apparently involves praising children who commit suicide when their parents say “no” to them.
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