Various outlets online are mourning the death of 20-year-old Philadelphia man Maurice Willoughby, who committed suicide after being bullied for dating a transgender woman. Maurice, also known as "Reese Him Daddie," shared a social media post defending his relationship with his girlfriend prior to his death.
He wrote, "Y’all can say whatever about faith I really don’t care if she not passable I don’t care if she wasn’t born a woman she is a woman to me & I love her flaws that’s what makes her faith if you heard her story it’s motivating..... I’m happy you should be happy for me."
A video of Willoughby being harassed outside of a store made the rounds on social media, and friends say it caused him to slip into depression. A friend told the website Aazios, "He was getting picked on and joked on all the time. Where we are from, if you like trans woman, and you black, the streets will talk about you, fight you, even try to kill you. He was dealing with a lot."
Source: sandrarose.com
