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OregonLive
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Online vitriol poured in after the death of a Portland-area trans teen. Then came a deluge of support, grief and love - oregonlive.com
June 5, 2025 - Johns Bridge at 1:39 a.m., the city’s lights in the distance, the Willamette inky black below, with a four-word caption: “its a pretty view.” · Law enforcement officials determined she died by suicide.
American transgender girl (1997–2014)
Teenage, white, trans girl with dark hair wearing a white dress and posing in front of a mirror, taking a photograph of herself using a camera phone
Leelah Alcorn
Leelah Alcorn (November 15, 1997 – December 28, 2014) was an American transgender girl whose suicide attracted international attention. Prior to her death, she had posted a suicide note to her Tumblr … Wikipedia
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Born (1997-11-15)November 15, 1997
Kings Mills, Ohio, U.S.
Died December 28, 2014(2014-12-28) (aged 17)
Warren County, Ohio, U.S.
Cause of death Suicide by vehicular impact
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Born (1997-11-15)November 15, 1997
Kings Mills, Ohio, U.S.
Died December 28, 2014(2014-12-28) (aged 17)
Warren County, Ohio, U.S.
Cause of death Suicide by vehicular impact
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Wikipedia
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Leelah Alcorn - Wikipedia
June 6, 2026 - Prior to her death, she had posted a suicide note to her Tumblr blog about societal standards affecting transgender people and expressing the hope that her death would create a dialogue about discrimination, abuse, and lack of support for transgender people.
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Reddit
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r/trans on Reddit: Charlotte Fosgate (TW: suicide) (Please Read)
May 27, 2025 -

It pains me to even have to write this, but i do what needs to be done. on may 2nd 2025, charlotte made a post on her twitter account from the top of a bridge in Portland Origon. She was a 17 year old trans girl who took her own life that friday morning. While it's not typical for me to write a message for the deceased, i felt it's what needed to be done. As you would expect from twitter, most of the comments on the post were absolutly disgusting sluge of the earth that claim to be human. after reading a few of their replies it's obvius that is not the truth. I'm here to make sure that she is remembered in the light that she deserves, because no one deserves to go what she went through. While not much is known about her at the moment and understandably her family has not yet made a public statment as her body was only found a few days ago, we know that she suffered from sevear depression, and that for the time leading up to the event she was off her meds. she loved memes, anime, video games (esspecily sonic), and to quote her "chatting on message boards". She was also a beloved part of the sonic kodding community. it's ashame how crule the world can be. I hope for the sake of all of us things get better. Charlotte Fosgate will live on in out hearts.

there are some pictures of her and some of the people who cared on twitter on a previous post on my profile. i did not include the post she made, but feel free to look it up yourself. i don't recomend clicking on any news articals or anything that says obituary as most of the ones i found and tried to look at were virus sights (it sucks that this is the world we live in, that a girls death is used to get people to install a virus)

don't let her become just another statistic. she and others were real people, with real lives, that mattered, and still matter

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New York Daily News
nydailynews.com › 2015 › 05 › 18 › transgender-new-jersey-womans-body-recovered-weeks-after-her-george-washington-bridge-suicide-investigators
Transgender New Jersey woman’s body recovered weeks after her George Washington Bridge suicide: investigators
April 9, 2018 - Investigators have recovered the body of a 23-year-old transgender woman who jumped to her death from the George Washington Bridge as two cops begged her not to do it. “Don’t do it!
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Reddit
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r/MtF on Reddit: Charlotte's death (tw suicide, transphobia)
May 31, 2025 -

in case anyone here hasn't heard, a young trans girl killed herself a few weeks ago. she was 17. her name was Charlotte.

she posted a photo on Twitter just before she died: the night sky, from the bridge she was jumping from.

since then, transphobes on Twitter have been viciously mocking her and celebrating her death. someone hacked her account with transphobic suicide "jokes". the fucker that made Stonetoss made the photo his banner image. people have been making "memes" and "jokes" about her death. people have gone to the bridge she jumped from to physically put up trans suicide "memes".

I hope she will be able to rest at peace, or have a happy life in her next life. I wish she never had to go through everything she had experienced, that she could've had a comfortable and happy life.

I am so tired, though. is this genuinely what cis-dominated society has become? do people genuinely hate us this much? they claim they want to "protect the children", but here they are celebrating the death of a child. the mask is off. it is about to get very dangerous for us soon, I think - tens of thousands of people celebrating the death of a trans child is something you would've expected to hear in a history textbook about Nazi Germany, not in the year 2025.

if you are mentally and physically and financially able, it would be a good time to arm up, or get ready to flee to more welcoming shores, or start building mutual aid networks in your local trans community and preparing to engage in direct action if necessary. stock up on hormones; DIY if necessary.

to anyone here who is suicidal: please, please, please don't kill yourself. live out of spite, resist the fascists who want your death. your death will be mocked and celebrated by your enemies; your figurative corpse will be paraded around as a trophy. living, having hope for a brighter future, is a form of resistance. someday, I believe, things will be okay. until then, we need to fight back.

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I’ve seen the posts, so much so that conservatives are traveling to her place of suicide to mock her. I can’t say what I want to say because Reddit will consider it a call to violence. I however do understand those that want to be rid of their body and this world. I’ve attempted multiple times, and because of these attempts I can no longer arm myself. I hate this country, I hate conservatives, and I hate the liberals that complacent with this administration.
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Jfc. Hope each and every one of those disgusting wretches gets thrown into a pit of fire. TCD. Hate this society with a passion. Yet idiotic transphobes will try to argue that "being trans isn't that hard" yeah freaking right dude. Try living even a month in our lives. If a cis person did this and people went to the bridge to post "memes" you'd see how fast that crap would get shut down by everyone. Outside of other extreme situations like being homeless, being trans is genuinely one of the worst things that can happen to you, and unlike most things it stays with you for the rest of your LIFE. No matter what hormones or surgeries you get, you can't escape being trans and having a target on your back. It's a lifetime nightmare to live in. A nightmare most of those squirmy cowards could never dream of having to be trapped in or even bother trying to empathize what it's like. I don't care what anyone says. Trans people are one of the strongest and toughest people around and this proves it. I'm really freaking sad to hear about her story and I really wish she didn't. I wish someone could have saved her :(
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Ebar
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Trans youth commits suicide
March 11, 2015 - Aubrey Mariko Shine, 22, who's being remembered as a "passionate" youth who was active in their community, leapt from the bridge Tuesday, February 24, photos and messages posted to Shine's Facebook page suggest. Tiffany Woods, a transgender activist who met Shine after the April incident, said Shine's legal name was Jesse Casas and Shine preferred the pronoun "they."
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Oakland Voices
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Transgendercide drives woman of color to suicide
October 19, 2024 - The night before she jumped off the bridge and took her life, Aubrey cited the recent Trans killings around the world and asked in a Facebook update if she was going to be next.
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Narinjara
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LGBT couple commits suicide by jumping off Minbya bridge
August 14, 2025 - On the night of August 12, two LGBT (transgender) individuals killed themselves by leaping off the bridge in Rakhine State's Minbya Township.
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App
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Transgender Wall woman shouldn't have died
May 1, 2015 - This tweet appeared on the newsfeed of Rachel Bryk, 23, of Wall, eight hours before reportedly jumping off the George Washington Bridge on April 23. Bryk's alleged suicide occurred just one day before Bruce Jenner's exclusive interview with ...
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PhillyVoice
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Transgender N.J. game developer jumps off bridge after online abuse | PhillyVoice
April 29, 2015 - A 23-year-old from Wall Township, New Jersey, took her own life by jumping off the George Washington Bridge late Thursday afternoon, NJ.com reports. “Guess I am dead. Killed myself.
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New York Daily News
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Transgender woman jumps from George Washington Bridge after facing ‘constant transphobia’ online
April 9, 2018 - A young transgender woman from New Jersey leaped to her death from the George Washington Bridge Thursday as two off-duty cops begged her not to take her life. “Don’t do it! Don’t jump!” one policewoman yelled as Rachel Bryk’s jumped, ...
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Refinery29
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Trans Gamer's Suicide Highlights Continued Issue Of Online Harassment
April 28, 2015 - Prominent transgender game developer Rachel Bryk committed suicide by jumping off the George Washington Bridge, after years of managing chronic pain, as well as dealing with low self-esteem and cyberbullying, at the age of 23.
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SFWeekly
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Trans Suicide Hotline Founder Heeds the Call | Archives | sfweekly.com
December 3, 2015 - One of her last Facebook photos shows the bridge's international orange guardrail and the choppy gray Pacific below. The caption reads, “Being trans sucks!” · “Once in awhile, my workday is interrupted — or my work evening is interrupted — by trying to care for a suicidal trans person,” Martela says.
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Wikipedia
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Suicide of Eylül Cansın - Wikipedia
April 12, 2026 - Eylül Cansın (1992 – 5 January 2015) was a 23 year old Turkish trans woman who died by suicide after jumping off the Bosphorus Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey, despite police's attempts to prevent her from jumping. She died on impact.
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PinkNews
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Transgender Brazilian woman dies in fatal jump from bridge | PinkNews
June 26, 2019 - A transgender woman in Brazil has died by suicide after jumping from a bridge, according to local media reports.
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TransVitae
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When a Trans Teen Dies, Twitter Turns Her into a Punchline
June 5, 2025 - ... On May 2, 2025, 17-year-old Charlotte Fosgate, known online as @burntfishie, posted a chilling pair of tweets that would soon be revealed as her final public words. The first included a photo from a high bridge, captioned: “it’s a pretty ...