LGBTQ teen Nex Benedict died by suicide, medical examiner says
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An autopsy report released by the Oklahoma’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner determined that Nex Benedict, a member of the 2SLGBTQ community, died by suicide.

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.

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Remember, an injury against one of us is an injury against all of us.

  • Cromalin [she/her]@hexbear.netMEnglish
    71·
    8 months ago

    absolutely disgusting. even if they did kill themself (which, given other examples of malpractice from the authorities surrounding this case and the claimed cause of death not really matching up there is more than a little reason to doubt), the refusal to put any blame on the year long transphobic harassment campaign or the brutal attack they suffered the day before where they blacked out partway through is appalling. deeply evil reporting

    • Cromalin [she/her]@hexbear.netMEnglish
      68·
      8 months ago

      describing their death as them dying “one day after getting into a physical fight with several other students at Owasso High School” without any further mention of it, when that fight was them being ganged up on after a year of harassment and resulted in nex blacking out partway through the fight is journalistic malpractice

      Kiara Alfonseca is a journalist and producer who covers the topics of education, policing, economic and social injustice through the lens of identity.

      GREAT FUCKING JOB ON THAT KIARA