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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.
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.