The cowards, this is how its being reported on all major news channels. Lie after lie.
In a statement to ABC News, the Owasso Police Department said it suspected the cause of Benedict’s death, but refrained from saying anything pending the results of the medical examiner’s office.
The students of Oklahoma are holding walkouts to honor Nex. It would be appreciated if you joined any nearby vigil or march honoring them, in solidarity.
Remember that this wasn’t some passive death, transphobes actively and knowingly agitated harm against them. This was a murder, not a suicide. They, an indigenous trans minor, died in the hospital after being assaulted in the bathroom by 6 transphobes.
Last week, a family buried their nonbinary child, Nex Benedict, who died after being brutally beaten in the girls’ bathroom at their high school in Oklahoma. According to their mother, 16-year-old Benedict had been bullied relentlessly for a year leading up to the incident, in which a group of peers ganged up on them and a trans student. It’s a horrific case and one that is inseparable from its context amid a climate of seemingly unceasing anti-LGBT demonization in the state and the nation.
Remember, an injury against one of us is an injury against all of us.
Even if it was legitimatly a suicide, it was still a murder. You bully someone into killing themself, thats murder.
It’s gotta be a cop’s kid this all tracks back to origin with; either that, or some flaccid Republican politico’s kid. They wouldn’t be playing the BLATANT lie card otherwise.
Yeah, the “positive spin” on this story is literally that Nex was so fucking traumatized and terrified that he thought of escape through death was preferable to going back to school. It’s just so bleak how suicide is looked down upon as this weak thing that weak people do, instead of turning around and thinking about how evil your fucking society is that people think that merely existing in that society it is a fate worse than death.