September 4th, 2022 was the first day of Suicide Prevention Week. This also happens to be the third anniversary of the untimely and entirely preventable death of Yaeli Galdamez.
She was a 19-year-old California girl who, like many teenage girls, was plagued with depression and anxiety, and she came to believe she was transgender after being bullied in middle school.
What followed was a conspiracy of school counselors, Department of Family and Child Services, friends, other kid’s parents, and the Los Angeles LGBT Center’s RISE task force that resulted in Yaeli being coerced into walking out of her family home one July evening in 2016 and ended with her stepping in front of a train three years later….