Obama To Call For End To LGBT Conversion Therapy

Obama To Call For End To LGBT Conversion Therapy
WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 07: U.S. President Barack Obama speaks while participating in a roundtable discussion on the impacts of climate change on public health at Howard University in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, April 7, 2015. President Obama is warning that climate change will start affecting Americans health in the near future and heâs recruiting top technology companies to help prepare the nationâs health systems. (Photo by Andrew Harrer-Pool/Getty Images)
WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 07: U.S. President Barack Obama speaks while participating in a roundtable discussion on the impacts of climate change on public health at Howard University in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, April 7, 2015. President Obama is warning that climate change will start affecting Americans health in the near future and heâs recruiting top technology companies to help prepare the nationâs health systems. (Photo by Andrew Harrer-Pool/Getty Images)

A 17-year-old transgender youth, Leelah Alcorn, stunned her friends and a vast Internet audience in December when she threw herself in front of a tractor-trailer after writing in an online suicide note that religious therapists had tried to convert her back to being a boy.

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