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.
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.