Transgender teen, 16yrs kills self after years of bullying

This is a horrible incident and indeed will cause pains to her parents...

According to Daily Mail UK, a transgender teenager who committed suicide after being tormented by school bullies left a series of tragic notes asking that she was not remembered as 'the girl with problems'.

Ashlyn Haffner, from Indian Trail, North Carolina, died late last month when she stepped in front of a car after slowly beginning to transition to a man.

But Ashlyn, also known as Ash, was regularly bullied, which her mother April Quick - referring to her child with the 'she' pronoun - has revealed in a series of heart-breaking notes found written on her child's iPad.

The 16-year-old wrote: 'If I die, I don't want to be remembered as the sad person I was,' according to a post on her tribute page.

She continued: 'I don't want to be remembered as the f***** gay girl with all the scars on her arm. Unfortunately that's who I am to a lot of people.

'I just didn't understand why I felt the way I did when I had a decent life. Just remember me as someone who understood and stayed strong for as long as I could.'

Her death sparked an outpouring of grief on social media, with classmates and friends from Porter Ridge High School rallying around her family during a candlelight vigil and creating the #doitforash hashtag on Twitter.

Her mother told The Enquirer-Journal she knew her daughter had started a relationship with a girl before she came out to her directly, and supported her decision.

She told Ash: 'I will not love you any differently. I will not look at you any differently,' the paper reported.

However, she did not believe there was a single incident which influenced her decision to commit suicide. Rather, it was a gradual build-up over time and added that her suicide came as a shock.

The #doitforash hashtag used in the wake of her death has been inundated with tributes and calls for an end to the bullying of transgender teens.

One wrote: 'You didn't deserve to die. You deserved to live in the body you should of been given.'

Another added: 'The bullying has to end. Society makes it difficult to be exactly who you are, but do it anyway.' 

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• *For confidential support call National Suicide Prevention Lifeline on 1-800-273-TALK (8255) or Transgender Lifeline on +187 756 588 60.
• For support in the UK, call the Samaritans on 08457 90 90 90, visit a local Samaritans branch, or click here.