VA patient died by suicide at top of hospital’s garage in Syracuse
www.syracuse.com
The veteran, a VA mental health patient, was wearing a transgender flag, a witness said.

EDIT:

Her name was Elisa Rae Shupe.

You can read more about her from Erin’s Bluesky Post and related article.

https://bsky.app/profile/erininthemorning.com/post/3lhwefbinn22c

  • moosetwinEnglish
    18•20 hours ago

    was not expecting a story from where I live to appear on lemmy

    I don’t read the local news very often so I don’t know anything about this specific story, but the people here lean (slightly) conservative. Despite this, I haven’t heard anyone talking about trans people negatively (at least by adults, I did hear a teen being an asshole though)

    though also I haven’t been out a lot since the government was taken over so I’d not be too surprised if transphobia has gotten worse here