Ashley Hallstrom, 26, said she could not stand to live another day in the post then stepped into the path of a lorry
A transgender woman has posted a Facebook suicide note pleading for better understanding from society.
Transgender is also an umbrella term because, in addition to including trans men and trans women whose binary gender identity is the opposite of their assigned sex.
Ashley Hallstrom, 26, said she could not stand to live another day in the post then stepped into the path of a lorry.
She wrote about her life-long struggle to be happy and appealed for her final words to be shared to help change society’s attitudes.
In the post she said: “The reason why I’ve decided to do this is because I’m transgender… I’m writing all of this because I’ve [sic] need my story to be shared.
“Please help make this change because trans people are everywhere.
“You may never know who you’re hurting until it’s too late.”
In the tragic message Ashley explained that from a very young age “I was told that people like me are freaks and abominations, that we are sick in the head and society hates us.”
She added: “This made me hate who I was. I tried so hard to be just like everyone else but this isn’t something you can change.”
Ashley said she came out as trans at 20 but never completely got over the depression “being trans caused me.”
She said she had already been “poisoned by a society” that did not want to try to understand.
“Everywhere I’d turn I’d see the hated that society had for us.
“I had already been poisoned by a society that didn’t understand us and, even worse, didn’t want to even try.
“I saw the pain it caused to people like me and going though this same hurt myself it has just become to much for me to take anymore,” she said.
She continued: “I wanted so much to help those going though what I had to because nobody should ever have to feel that they hate their life so much that they want to end it all just so they won’t have to experience another moment of this sadness.”
She then signed the message off with her hopes saying: “I believe my last words can help make the change that society needs to make so that one day there will be no others like me.”
Shortly after posting the message Ashley, of Logan, Utah, stepped into the path of an oncoming truck on Highway 89/91.
Worried friends commented on the post and pleaded with her not to come to harm but it was too late.
Nearly 2,000 people have since shared the post which was uploaded on her Facebook page on Wednesday. Mirror
