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Rapper Akon has plans to provide some 600 million people in Africa with power.This is great news but hasn&#8217;t been featured in the news until recently because of the media&#8217;s coverage of Caitlyn Jenner&#8217;s story. This has upset some people &#8211; like Snoop Dogg, as seen in a recent meme he posted on his Instagram page referring to Jenner as a &#8220;science project,&#8221; which later spread on social media.In an exclusive interview with &#8220;20/20,&#8221; Jenner requested to be called &#8220;Caitlyn,&#8221; but some refuse to respect her wishes, as reflected in the headline on Betty Roccograndi&#8217;s recent column in the Times Leader: &#8220;I salute Jenner&#8217;s courage, but it&#8217;s still Bruce to me.&#8221; In this, she writes, &#8220;I think it&#8217;s kind of creepy.&#8221;In a survey gathered by The Williams Institute in collaboration with The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, it reported that 41 percent of trans or gender non-conforming people have attempted suicide. In December 2014, transgender teen Leelah Alcorn, 17, killed herself by jumping in front of a semi.Jenner&#8217;s story reminds those suffering that it&#8217;s OK, but it also illuminates how destructive willful ignorance can be.In this day and age with information readily available at our fingertips, ignorance is not only a choice but a deadly weapon. Alcorn left a suicide note on her Tumblr account that read: &#8220;People say &#8216;it gets better&#8217; but that isn&#8217;t true in my case. It gets worse. Each day I get worse.&#8221;Chris MonjeloPittston

Letter to the Editor: Caitlyn Jenner brings to light struggle of transgender individuals