Just Love Me for Who I Am: An Open Letter to Parents of Transgender Children

Just Love Me for Who I Am is a father's story of his transgender son who died of suicide. Asher Styers, a transgender man,
came out at seventeen years old and died at age twenty-one.
He was a gifted student, talented artist, and tenacious athlete,
described by a friend as "kind in a way I can't begin to explain"
and by a coworker as "the only one who was kind to me." The events of Asher's life and death align with peer-reviewed scientific research that supports the assertion that the health a...