The tragic and untimely deaths of Rutgers University freshman Tyler Clementi and Seth Walsh from Tehachapi raised a lot of questions when they made national headlines last week about what we as a society could or should be doing to make sure that tragedies like that do not happen again.
The teens were bullied so badly that they felt there was no other way out than to take their own lives.
Another recent suicide hit close to home.
This is the story of Buchanan High graduate, Justin "Chloe" Lacey.
Born on October 4th, 1991, Justin Lacey grew up like any other young boy enjoying paint ball guns and "wanting to be a sniper and wanting to be an astronaut, you know, all boy," says mom, Allison Murphy.
She says she never knew her son was transgender until he was about 16, when he saw a television show about being transgender and 'Chloe' said, 'Boom, that's it.'
Murphy speaks of Justin and "Chloe" as two different beings, both of whom she loved dearly and whom she and stepdad, Sean Dempsey say, were selfless. More of Parents Mourn Suicide of Transgender Teen
at KMJ Radio News in Fresno.
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