In the wake of Leelah Alcorn's suicide, my heart breaks for all my trans sisters and brothers and siblings who have felt that hopeless. I find it particularly painful that Christianity has been used to increase that hopelessness rather than to give hope. I personally could not have gotten the courage to transition or faced the nearly daily resistance to my living true to myself were it not for my deep love for Christ. It is Christ who convinced me that I need to stand naked and honest and authentic to the world and not just before the Lord. "The Lord does not see as mortals see; they look on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart."