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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  • cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml
    15·
    4 months ago

    if they say suicide […] then I would say it was suicide unless you have some compelling information to say its not

    Counterargument: if they say suicide then I would say it was most definitely not suicide unless you have some compelling information to say it is.

    In cases like this always assume they are lying and reality is the exact opposite of what they claim.

    • CableMonster
      21·
      4 months ago

      And I think they do have compelling evidence to make the claim or it would be quickly debunked by the family. I am skeptical of authority and would absolutely jump on board on the government is lying if you actually had some solid information about them actually lying.

      I think your best argument is that the suicide was the result of how they were treated.