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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by TheGenderWitch@hexbear.net to c/traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns@hexbear.net

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.

- from this article

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

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[-] SexUnderSocialism@hexbear.net 15 points 3 months ago

I've been avoiding commenting on this because I've been dealing with some anger management issues lately, and reading this just fills me with rage. Death to every single transphobe and every passive bystander who looks the other way while this violence against us is being perpetrated.

[-] ElChapoDeChapo@hexbear.net 11 points 3 months ago

Seriously, this country deserves to burn amerikkka

[-] BioWarfarePosadist@hexbear.net 14 points 3 months ago

Out in Normies amerikkka I'm stuck dealing with people going around telling everyone about how it was a suicide. Fuck fascist and transphobes. Burning to death would be the kindest thing we can do to them.

[-] SnowySkyes@hexbear.net 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

This shit is inexcusable. Every single person involved in this case that allowed it to be swept under the rug essentially should be hung in public. Nothing like this should fucking ever happen. You know what the worst part is? No matter how much I wish it, nothing will ever change. I am powerless. I get to watch from the sideline in abject horror, but nothing will ever change. And I hate every second of it. Shit like this is why I carry pepper spray on my person at all times.

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