Alabama Mayor And Pastor, Copeland Commits Suicide After Being Outed As A Transgender

 A married Alabama preacher and Mayor on Friday, Nov. 3, committed suicide two days after being outed as a transgender who had a secret life he shared online as a “transgender curvy girl.”

F.L. “Bubba” Copeland, the mayor of tiny Smiths Station and also the pastor at First Baptist Church in nearby Phenix City, was reported to have shot himself around 5 p.m. in front of sheriffs who were following him.

Copeland, a married father of three killed himself after the police were asked to do a welfare check and began tailing his car.

“He exited the vehicle, produced a handgun, and took his own life,” the sheriff’s office said.

Copeland’s suicide is coming after he was exposed in 1819 News, a news site once owned by the conservative think tank, the Alabama Policy Institute, who described Copeland’s secret life online as a transgender woman under the pseudonym Brittini Blaire Summerlin.

“Brittini” described herself as a “transitioning transgender curvy girl that loves smiling, clothes, and shoes!”

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 Copeland was seen on Brittini's social media profiles wearing different women’s outfits, including bedroom photos of himself in women’s underw£ar.

1819 News in its report also said Copeland was seeing wearing some of his wife’s clothes in his posts.

He had referred to himself as a “thick transgender woman” and encouraged other trans women to go on hormone replacement therapy, having also posted transgender porn as well as transgender fiction and erotica that he apparently wrote.

Reacting to the report published on his 62nd birthday, Copeland told 1819 News that his online alter ego was a harmless “hobby” that did not go beyond his home.

“Just my wife knows about it,” Copeland said. “It’s a hobby I do to relieve stress. I have a lot of stress, and I’m not medically transitioning. It’s just a bit of a character I’m playing. … I don’t go out and seek solicitation or anything like that.”

“What I do in private life has nothing to do with what I do in my holy life,” Copeland told 1819 reporter Craig Mong.