Leelah Alcorn

Conservatives are sexualizing kids and robbing LGBTQ youth of role models

By Eliel Cruz — April 14, 2022
(RNS) — Conservative Christians have long only seen LGBTQ people as sex acts.

Obama backs efforts to end ex-gay therapy for LGBT teens

By David Jackson — April 9, 2015
WASHINGTON — White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett writes that "we share your concern about its potentially devastating effects on the lives of transgender as well as gay, lesbian, bisexual, and queer youth."

Letter to my possible son: You will always be my child (COMMENTARY)

By Lily Burana — January 9, 2015
(RNS) Say that as the years go by you find that your physical self doesn’t match your sense of your own gender. How will I love you? The same. I will raise you and love you just the same.

Parents don’t have to choose between their faith and their LGBT kids (COMMENTARY)

By Caitlin Ryan — January 7, 2015
(RNS) Families can learn to support their LGBT children when guidance and services are provided in ways that resonate for them, including education presented in the context of cultural and religious values.

The death of transgender teen Leelah Alcorn should be a wake up call for Christians

By Eliel Cruz — January 2, 2015
The church is failing LGBT youth. It's time we stopped rejecting and start affirming the children of God.
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