Well, he was a boy who "was trapped in a girl's body". I don't see how that is transgender.

He just did not accept reality that he is a boy and always will be. His parents taking him to a therapist and telling him to accept reality is not really "abusive".

To Thorn, who passed due to an overly-large heart. You left us far too soon, but never have I seen anyone pass for a more appropriate reason. An unpleasant anniversary is coming up, and you've been on my mind a lot lately.

To many - too many - family members, and to Thorn and other friends. I love and miss all of you.

This is a thread to remember absent friends. Did you know Leelah? I'm going to take a guess and say no, and that this is yet another opportunity for you to bring up transgender deaths. That's why people are telling you to fuck off and take it elsewhere, in more polite terms. Fuck off and take it elsewhere.

I'd like to raise a glass to my grandfather Charles, the only human being I have truly felt a heavy sense of loss with his death. I've been watching the cricket intensely this year as a way to remember a connection we had. We'd be cursing at the TV together now if he were alive :) If he were still going, he would have posted his century this year. I'm glad he got to rest.

EVERY thread is a thread for dtgreene's causes.

Anyway, here's to my brother, who left us 11 months ago. And to my very good school and university buddy, Sluggo, whom I've lost touch with over the years. I still think of you often, my friend.

To Absent Friends!

It says, in the opening post, "reach out to absent friends you do not yet know, and may never meet.", so therefore it is not inappropriate to mention her (or anyone else who died I don't personally know) in this thread.

Also, I actually have read some of her reddit posts, and had definitely done so before the tragedy occurred.

dtgreene my apologies for being wrong and for lacking reading comprehension myself. Your post is on topic and my comment was unwarranted. It was partly fuelled by the the last time I chirped in on this topic with you. No excuse, just a little explanation behind my jumping the gun in response to you.

To all the good people I have lost last year, and to everyone who stay strong and keep going despite life constantly spitting on them. May they always find someone to stay them close in dark times, and may they find a reason to smile again.

To absent friends!

To all people who lost someone during this horrible yeah, to all people still alive who need to live with that.
To all people I love and even people I don't know, because sometimes, someone shows me good people still exist out here.

To all absent friends.

It's been seven years since my grandma left us for the angels.
It's been five years since a dear friend left for the great unknown.
It's been three years since another good friend which I wasn't in touch like I used to, left.
It's been one year since two childhood friends left.
It's been two months since sixty three people, few among them that I knew, left to a better place.
Although they are gone, they will never be forgotten!

This is to all the absent friends, families, relatives, loved ones, and to those strangers whom we connected from the moment we met yet fate took them from us!

A jolly soul, "Ox" was an icon of local sci-fi fandom and will be dearly missed by so many.

To absent friends!

To absent friends indeed, including a long time friend who passed this spring. Cheers

and to you as well! :)

To Chuck - wish I knew where you were, bud.

It's not about causes, it's about this dudes friend. Fuck you for thinking transgender people aren't people with friends, families and the like. You're the one in the wrong to assume he was trying to hijack a thread like this. I have had personal friends that have taken their own lives, gay, transgender, straight and the like. How does what he said make any difference to your thread?

To Absent Friends and Family, thinking and missing you every single day.

*raises glass to all and everyone of them*