Police identified the Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU) student who claimed his own life on Monday as 21-year-old Logan Birdsong, who identified as a transgender woman and preferred the name Serenity.
On Wednesday, the Murfreesboro Police Department (MPD) wrote in a post to the social media platform X that Birdsong (pictured above) is the student who allegedly committed suicide at the James E. Walker library on the MTSU campus, and LGBTQ Nation confirmed both that Birdsong identified as a transgender woman and was vice president of MT Lambda, an LGBT organization at MTSU.
The university closed on Tuesday, in the wake of the suicide, but resumed its normal schedule on Wednesday. MTSU held a vigil for Birdsong on Wednesday that was reportedly attended by 2,000 people.