16-year-old transgender teen José Matías De la Fuente Guevara has lost his life to suicide following a series of alleged abuse and bullying at his school.
José lost his life on May 23rd when he fell from the 11th floor of the building where he lived in the northern Chile town of Copiapó.
His mother, Marcella, told local press that José had begun to socially transition from the age of 13, taking on the name José and wearing masculine clothing, with the intention of living his life as his true gender. Sadly for José he was met with a great deal of bullying from his fellow students at Sacred Heart High School.
Reports indicate that José left a letter detailing his reasons for taking his own life, and that the bullying he had suffered from fellow students is one of the main reasons. When his mother was asked why he had not shared this information with his parents before she replied 'I think there was a feeling of wanting to protect us'.
After José's death his parents also became aware of videos that the teen had made on WhatsApp where he said that the bullying had left him wanting to take his own life, and that in one video that he had received a fellow student had told him to throw himself off his building.
Marcella also told the press that José had been made to leave a local dance group due to having transitioned, and that a school inspector had insulted his appearance, an incident that the school had refused to meet with her about.
‘The last conversation I had with him, he told me “change my school”,’ Marcela said. ‘I did not understand that the school was going to punish the boy for being different.’
‘My son always felt marginalized… he spent many hours exposed to strange looks, comments and teasing. As a mom I can say that I do not want to go to that school anymore, I want them to be stained with my son’s blood’.
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Reports indicate that José left a letter detailing his reasons for taking his own life, and that the bullying he had suffered from fellow students is one of the main reasons. When his mother was asked why he had not shared this information with his parents before she replied 'I think there was a feeling of wanting to protect us'.
ReplyDeleteAfter José's death his parents also became aware of videos that the teen had made on WhatsApp where he said that the bullying had left him wanting to take his own life, and that in one video that he had received a fellow student had told him to throw himself off his building.
Marcella also told the press that José had been made to leave a local dance group due to having transitioned, and that a school inspector had insulted his appearance, an incident that the school had refused to meet with her about.
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