Should it be ‘could have’ in the first paragraph, instead of ‘of’?

Apart from that, really well written.

Very well done. You’ve conveyed a lot in the few words allotted.

I’m left wanting to reach out and tell the protagonist that the failure is not hers. She has succeeded. She’s been courageous and is being who she wants, who she needs to be, which can be the hardest thing in this world. That courage is worth everything.

Her parents are the ones who have failed. Failed to be open-minded, supportive, tolerant and, most of all, loving.

The tone is so personal and the hurt seems so real. Very well done and accurate to what a log of LGBT kids are going through.