What we can learn from the suicide of transgender youth
The suicide death last year of a 20 year-old transgender woman sparked some national attention, but was only one of a growing number of transgender youth driven to desperation because of feeling unable to come out as their true selves to the world. Richmond Pulse's Adrienne Chainey believes today's adolescents will be the ones to change that -- those parts of American society that won't accept nonconforming gender identities. "No one, for any reason, should get to the point where they say, as Leelah did on her Reddit account, 'Please help me, I don’t know what I should do and I can’t take much more of this.'" Read the commentary on Richmond Pulse.