Kate von Roeder ("Riot Damiya")
Age 271 Oct 2014
Los Angeles, California (USA)
Suicide
Kate died after posting a suicide note to Facebook.
Kate von Roeder purchased a shotgun last week and began posting cryptic countdowns to her Facebook page, and on Thursday she followed through with plans she said had been made for a long time.
This week, the California woman posted on Facebook a long suicide note before taking her life. In the note, she explained that pressures of living as a trans woman.
In the note, von Roeder explained that transitioning was too difficult, writing, “I shouldn’t have done it. Not because I’m not trans, but because I didn’t have a fraction of the personal strength to succeed at it, unlike some of the amazing trans people I’ve been privileged to know.”
The note garnered immediate responses from Facebook friends, who pleaded with Kate to call a suicide hotline or respond to their calls. But within four hours of posting the note on Facebook, police confirmed that Kate von Roeder had committed suicide.
Kate was a tech analyst at Riot Games and was a prominent member of the League of Legends community.
Her death was not recorded on the TDoR 2015 memorial list released by Transgender Europe (TGEU) in November 2015. Her Facebook and Twitter profiles are https://www.facebook.com/kvonroeder and https://twitter.com/itsdamiya respectively.
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https://planettransgender.com/tdor-2015-memorial-list-27-reported-deaths-suicide/
