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But, in the wake of another school shooting in Parkland, Florida, a California mom decided to speak out about the suicide of her daughter as a result of transgender bullying and pressure from school officials. According to the grieving mother, her daughter was bullied so badly at school that she developed an eating disorder and attempted suicide as a way to escape the harassment. The mother is now campaigning for laws that would protect transgender students from discrimination and bullying. A California mom believes her teen daughter killed herself because she was pressured by teachers and school administrators to identify as transgender. The Blaze reports the attorney for Northeastern High School student Taylor Alesana claimed the school had a “right” to force gender reassignment on Alesana, who committed suicide in February, according to CNN. According to some abuse experts, it ranks right up there with a broken arm or malnourished child. That’s what a California mom is saying after her teen daughter committed suicide, blaming the school’s focus on transitioning instead of mental health struggles. This is trending on Twitter, too: A California mom is sharing her story of her transgender daughter who killed herself after her school started pressuring her to transition. The mom, whose name has not been released to protect her daughter’s identity, says that when her daughter came out to her as transgender in the seventh grade, the school began pressuring the family to get the child medically transitioned. The mom says that her daughter was not happy with the decision and started cutting herself. It feels like my world has been ripped apart,” writes a California mom on the GoFundMe page she has created to help pay for the funeral of her transgender daughter. The girl, who was born a boy, killed herself last month as her school pressured her into transitioning. The family is asking for privacy in their time of mourning, but they want to share their story to warn other trans kids and their families that they are not alone. “My child was murdered because she was trans,” the mom writes. “Please know that you are not alone.
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