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(Cw: violent and transphobic content matter) Nex Benedict's death ruled suicide by medical examiners.

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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  • since this shit article explains nothing

    The summary autopsy report from the medical examiner's office lists the probable cause of death as Diphenhydramine and Fluoxetine combined toxicity. Diphenhydramine is an antihistamine to relieve allergies, and Fluoxetine is an antidepressant.

    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

    • 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.

  • Makes me physically fucking ill reading a fucking lynching reported as a "physical altercation." This country is going to murder us all and libs won't even bat an eyelash.

  • Even if it was legitimatly a suicide, it was still a murder. You bully someone into killing themself, thats murder.

    • It's gotta be a cop's kid this all tracks back to origin with; either that, or some flaccid Republican politico's kid. They wouldn't be playing the BLATANT lie card otherwise.

    • Yeah, the "positive spin" on this story is literally that Nex was so fucking traumatized and terrified that he thought of escape through death was preferable to going back to school. It's just so bleak how suicide is looked down upon as this weak thing that weak people do, instead of turning around and thinking about how evil your fucking society is that people think that merely existing in that society it is a fate worse than death.

  • Death to Owasso PD, death to the Oklahoma "Chief Medical Examiner", death to every single irredeemable anglo parasite who had a hand in Nex's death; because you just know it was reich-wing, evangelical crackery that took them from us.

  • The fact that they make little effort to even give performative anti-transphobia is just them signaling that this shit is okay

    So much for the accepting nature of liberals

    Sickening to the core, may justice come to the murderers

    • Are you kidding? Liberals are incredibly accepting.

      Accepting of murder, accepting of genocide, accepting of bigotry, accepting of fascism, accepting of any bad thing that happens to other people. Liberals love to accept any and all forms of injustice, their only limit to acceptance is any existence in opposition to or resistance whatsoever to that injustice.

  • death to bigots and these cowards. rest in power, Nex.

    • rest in power, Nex.

      Tangentially related, but I've been seeing some liberals scolding people for using phrases like "Rest in power" or "say their name" when referring to Nex, because Apparently those terms are reserved for black people?

      It just feels deeply tone deaf and inappropriate to me, to see liberals look at the death of a trans, indigenous, child, and choose to police people's words and grief, rather than contend with the tragedy unfolding in front of them.

      • And I'd consider you correct. The struggles may not be 1:1 exactly the same, but they're intractably linked; as much as my dander might spike at anglos misusing AAVE. In this case, it's not a misuse in the slightest. Like I said, the struggle is intractably linked; it's really no different from applying those phrases to Palestine's martyrs.

      • those people are literally rewriting history. these terms are and were never intended to be reserved for a single group - it runs counter to their actual meaning. they're an acknowledgement of those who have been unjustly taken from us, a claim to solidarity, and a promise to take power to prevent such deaths in the future. that's why it's rest in power over rest in peace - peace is what led to these deaths. this attempt at division is entirely intended to prevent meaningful change when deaths like these should galvanize us towards further solidarity and a recommitment to immediate and decisive action. absolutely no one blinked an eye when white people got killed during the Floyd protests and we said the same thing back then because it's obvious we're fighting the same fight.

        don't let liberals rewrite history. make them rue the dead.

  • Out in Normies

    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.

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