Beth Kirkbride

Two transgender teenagers who were close friends at the same California high school have died by suicide less than a year apart. Summer Devi Mehta, 17, died on 3 February, 10 months after her classmate Ash He, 15. Both attended Palo Alto High School in the Bay Area. Mehta, a junior, left a note expressing hope that her death would raise awareness of the suicide crisis affecting the trans community. In a tribute and fundraising page Summer’s family created for The Trevor Project, they said: “The world was a scary place for her, as a transgender, autistic woman. It should not have been. […]