Every time you look in the news theres some story of some form of oppression, or of people not accepting others for who they are.

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He had been working in his home studio on his solo album and, before heading to bed, turned on his computer and read through a few blogs.

Leelah Alcorn, aged 17, threw herself under the wheels of a lorry outside her home in Cincinnati at the end of 2014.

Her suicide note read: I feel like a girl trapped in a boys body, and Ive felt that way ever since I was 4.

I never knew there was a word for that feeling, nor was it possible for a boy to become a girl, so I never told anyone and I just continued to do traditionally boyish things to try to fit in.

Though Leelah had spoken to them about how she felt, she says her mother told her she would never truly be a girl and that God doesnt make mistakes.

Leelah was taken out of school, barred from social media and taken to see therapists therapists Leelah said were Christian and biased.

They told her that what she was doing was wrong and that she should look to God for help.

Leelahs suicide note ended with a call for action in the transgender community: My death needs to be counted in the number of transgender people who commit suicide this year.

I want someone to look at that number and say thats fucked up and fix it.

Fix society. Please.

It was reading these lines that hit Toro hardest.

He went to bed after reading Leelahs suicide note but found he couldnt really sleep.

Instead he was thinking about what happened to her and wondering why people found it so hard to accept that other people are different.

I hope what she wished for happens because a lot of people are going through what she went through.

Unfortunately Leelah is not the first person to go through it and Im sure it wont be the last.

PART OF the reason that Leelahs death had affected Toro was that he had written a song nearly a year earlier about something similar.

While putting together tracks for the solo album he has been working on since his former band My Chemical Romance broke up, he had written For The Lost And Brave.

It had originally been inspired by a proposed bill in Arizona that would have allowed business owners the right to refuse to serve gay men, lesbians and others on religious grounds.

He found, though, that his thoughts applied just as well to Leelah Alcorns suicide and the battle the transgender community faces.

Its so crazy that I wrote the song a year ago and, when I read the lines I wrote and I read the lines Leelah wrote, I noticed that there are a lot of similarities, he says.

He had thought of releasing the song before every time he read about people being oppressed, being put down.

He thought he should wait until he had a record deal and release date for his solo album, he thought he should do things properly as the industry demanded.

Ive been talking to my wife and people around me about wanting to release the song over this past year.

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