Showing posts with label Leelah Acorn. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Leelah Acorn. Show all posts

Thursday, January 1, 2015

How Leelah's likely suicide muddies the waters of sexual identity

Sexuality confusion
Religion and ethics profess at their core the need to embrace the good in life and in others. However, faith groups, in rejecting science, also dismiss the essence of what scientists view as creation and what makes everyone unique. The scientific view of human behaviors and how they develop includes those with sexual differences, like Leelah Acorn, a transgender teen, who apparently committed suicide rather than face a world in which stereotypes were used to condemn her.