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Transgender Teen, Who Revealed Honest Tales of Bullying, Takes Own Life
Taylor Alesana, a transgender teen in California who spoke out about being bullied, committed
suicide last week.
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Taylor's YouTube Channel
Taylor Alesana's Facebook Page
Taylor Alesana, a transgender teen in California who spoke out about being bullied, committed
suicide last week.
(Photo: xxtayloralesanaxx/Instagram)
Taylor's YouTube Channel
Taylor Alesana's Facebook Page
https://www.yahoo.com/parenting/transgender-teen-who-revealed-honest-tales-of-116036664802.htmlA 16-year-old transgender teen who found popularity with her makeup tutorial videos on YouTube has committed suicide.
Taylor Alesana, a student at Fallbrook High School in California, had spoken out on YouTube recently about loneliness and the bullying she was experiencing at school. In a video posted in December, she revealed she was going to live publicly as a boy for a while. “I’ve had a very hard last couple of weeks,” she said. “I had to go back in the closet and dress like a boy and cut my nails off and cut my hair off. I did this for my own protection. I was being bullied a lot at school.”
In the video, titled “Update! *Sad*,” Alesana described incidents of harassment by other students, and said she did not feel safe at school. “When you’re a kid, parents always tell you sticks and stones may break your bones but names will never hurt you,” she said. “To me that’s not true. Words hurt, and words turn up to threats and threats turn up to physical violence.”
Alesana encouraged transgender teens in similar situations to go to their school administrators or to the police if necessary. “Do whatever you can to protect yourself,” she said. And while she said she would never let the bullies win, she felt she had to dress like a boy for the foreseeable future. “When … the bullies get better and they quit, and when the world changes – which it is changing everyday – when everything gets safer and people learn to accept trans people for who they are, then definitely, I will come back out. I will come back out with my heels a’blazin. My huge dresses on, some nice hair, I will, I promise I will.”