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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.
since this shit article explains nothing
i don't fucking believe an antihistamine and anti depressant killed them.
also i personally know of people who got head injuries, seemed fine, and died not long after.
Diphenhydramine and fluoxetine actually have major interactions, but they do not match the reports about how Nex died at all. The combo has a significant risk of causing serotonin syndrome, this would practically be a given in case of an OD, and serotonin syndrome is, among other symptoms, marked by a highly agitated, confused state of mind, an often dangerously increased heart rate, muscle spasms and cramps, sometimes also diarrhea and vomiting and especially symptoms of hyperthermia like fever and profuse sweating, as the constant muscle spasms make the body temperature rise to life-threatening levels. Serotonin syndrome sends the entire body into overdrive, potentially fatal cases are a very, very noticeable condition. Especially when somebody is known to be on an SSRI like fluoxetine, serotonin syndrome should come to mind immediately, would be easily diagnosed by looking at the symptoms and could then be treated accordingly.
The sudden, spontaneous collapse that preceded Nex' hospitalization and death doesn't match this at all. An overdose of diphenhydramine would also already be guaranteed to cause a state of hallucinatory delirium on its own, but this wasn't reported by Sue Benedict, either. Nex' grandmothers' account of how they died doesn't match this toxicity report at all. This is an obvious cover-up story, just as the entire case has been dismissed and covered up by all authorities involved ever since the bathroom fight.
Nex Benedict didn't kill themselves. They were murdered by three girls at their school and the state government of Oklahoma is making a piss-poor attempt to hide this truth from the public, because they enacted the very policies that encouraged the murder.
Yeah, and Seratonin Syndrome isn't a fast killer either. I've gotten it twice now, and never even got medical treatment for the first one. If seratonin syndrome is the actual killer, this would be serious medical neglect by the hospital
which would again likely be due to transphobia
Doctors generally think trans people are med hunting. If Nex actually died of what is being reported, the doctors would have had hours to save them, and all the doctors would have had to do is give them a xanax.
Yeah, I'm not a doctor, but from using both of those drugs in my life prozac caused me... sexual issues, and just leave it at that. Benadryl I used to take constantly for allergies as a child. It definitely made me sleepy and groggy, I COULD imagine it potentially killing someone, but even reading online briefly that seems incredibly rare as i suspected. I give my dog like 4 Benadryl capsules if she's upset by thunder (vet approved). I don't think this is a drug with a record for danger. This is so weird.
it truly sounds like made up bullshit. they dont even know how much zyrtec and prozac was in their system. Nex had prescribed and/or OTC allergy medicine in their system so its a suicide? Highest level of bullshit. Oklahoma desperate to not look like they murder trans children.
You can OD on antihistamines surprisingly easily. Benadryl is the common one.
My brother probably died that way, not necessarily a suicide, just took too many and something happened.
That being said, the fact that this happened in the context of them being in the hospital for a beating it's highly unlikely, and even if those substances were involved, their effects only amplified other issues from blunt trauma or internal bleeding.
I've lost a friend or two to concussions sustained in a moshpit that weren't noticed.
If you lose sight of your buddy and they seem much drunker when you find them again, keep an eye on them. Maybe ask them some concussiony questions