What happens when you rape, beat, fire, evict, reject, isolate, demonize, and humiliate a class of people on a daily basis? Would you expect a group of people experiencing this to thrive? Or would you expect 40 percent of them to try to find escape in oblivion? Leelah was right. If we want to end the scourge of suicide, it’s time we stop trying to fix transgender people. It’s time to fix society.
