Henry Berg-Brousseau, transgender rights advocate and son of Kentucky state senator, dies at 24

Henry Berg-Brousseau, a transgender rights advocate whose story helped inspire opposition to trans-restrictive legislation in Kentucky, has died. He was 24.

Berg-Brousseau died Friday, said his mother, state Sen. Karen Berg. He "long struggled with mental illness, not because he was trans but born from his difficulty finding acceptance," she said in a news release. The cause was suicide, she said.

Berg-Brousseau, of Arlington, Virginia, was the deputy press secretary for politics for the Human Rights Campaign, one of the nation's largest LGBTQ advocacy organizations.