On February 8th, 2024, a young girl died of still unknown causes and accidentally unleashed a new LGBTQ outrage movement.
The facts, of course, haven't quite lined up, the investigation is still underway, and we may never know the full truth. However, there is a lot we do know, and it directly contradicts the message being stubbornly and indignantly spread by the left, Democrats and LGBTQ activists.
Nex Benedict, a non-binary kid, is dead after being bullied and attacked in a school restroom.
— Senator Scott Wiener (@Scott_Wiener) February 21, 2024
The anti-trans laws sweeping the country — including aggressive gender policing in restrooms — have real-world, deadly consequences. pic.twitter.com/bX5hujELeU
The eagerness to jump on this tragic case for political advantage has been obscene. It isn't even possible to collect all of the examples of such obscenity due to the seemingly never-ending repetition and supply.
The killing of Nex Benedict is gut-wrenching and underscores the danger of extremists who are dehumanizing kids with anti-trans hate in Oklahoma and across the country. Every student should feel safe at school and supported for who they are.
— Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) February 21, 2024
Nex deserves justice. https://t.co/oRgch51ZXO
This is awful — trans kids deserve our full support, and no child or family should have to go through this.
— Rep. Pramila Jayapal (@RepJayapal) February 22, 2024
It’s time for Congress to pass my Trans Bill of Rights to protect people across this country who just want to live as their authentic selves. https://t.co/y48R5f1DFd
Powerful voices spreading propaganda without a moment's thought if the information is true or not.
It just feels true.
Just as AOC boldly declared in 2019, 'There's a lot of people more concerned about being precisely, factually, and semantically correct than about being morally right.'
The left has been waiting for a case like this since the murder of Matthew Shepard in 1998, which sparked the Hate Crimes legislation movement and effectively shifted the Gay Rights movement from a free-spirit, sexual revolution cultural phenomenon to a culture of victimhood and outrage.
That case too was exploited for politics despite information disproving much of the popular narrative.
As a rare and honest 2013 article in the LGBTQ magazine, Advocate, revealed, 'There are obvious reasons why advocates of hate crime legislation must want to preserve one particular version of the Matthew Shepard story, but it was always just that -- a version.'
You see, Shepard wasn't targeted by hateful, violent homophobes, hunting for a victim in that bar that night. They knew Shepard, reportedly were sexual partners and the violence was over drugs. 'It's hardly surprising to learn from Jimenez that Shepard was also a routine drug user, and -- according to some of his friends -- an experienced dealer.'
The article concludes, 'There are valuable reasons for telling certain stories in a certain way at pivotal times, but that doesn't mean we have to hold on to them once they've outlived their usefulness.'
This just so happens to be one of those pivotal times.
You see, Republicans have made much progress in pushing back extreme LGBTQ activism in schools, gaining positions of authority over content and policies and have reigned in the more radical of the left's bathroom and sports policies.
The LGBTQ left needs proof that these policies are, as California State Senator Scott Wiener stated above, dangerous, even deadly.
Of course, a policy requiring girls to use the girl's restroom wouldn't have impacted Benedict, who identified as nonbinary or gender fluid. It seems she was motivated by revenge, and chose to target three girls she accused of relentlessly bullying her by throwing water on them, instigating a confrontation that got out of control.
The school had a supervisor at the restroom who heard the fight, which reportedly lasted less than two minutes, and broke it up, along with several other students who were in the restroom at the time. The students were marched to the principal's office, examined for injuries and their parents were called. As far as anyone can tell, they followed protocols and nothing was out of the ordinary.
Benedict died the next day, collapsing on the floor and she stopped breathing, she was rushed to the hospital and died later that evening. No cause of death has been released, but the medical examiner stated it was not the result of trauma. The fight didn't kill her.
Yet, after all of this information has come out, the left, Democrats and LGBTQ activists haven't skipped a beat.
Oklahoma’s queer community is reeling after the death of Nex Benedict, an LGBTQ teen who allegedly faced bullying at school for months. https://t.co/LBwfYidv1F
— NBC News (@NBCNews) February 23, 2024
Whatever happened to this girl in her last hours, a life was take too soon and that life is now an object for political activists to exploit for their own agenda.
If you asked around, you'd likely find that a lot of people have heard about some poor LGBTQ girl beaten to death in a school bathroom, right after Republicans forced her to use it even though it was dangerous. Not only that, but anti-LGBTQ rhetoric and hate has quite literally caused death in a midwestern high school. Something MUST be done.
Will the facts make it through the dense fog of passionate outrage and relentless propaganda?
It's been 26 years since Mathew Shepard died and we still hold public days of remembrance for the senseless, homophobic hate crime that took his life. I am not confident this case will end any differently.
No matter what the facts end up telling us.
an LGBT child was murdered 2 weeks ago https://t.co/fhdO9pR8vs
— Robert “Sky” Marchini (@rhcm123) February 23, 2024
Every young person deserves to feel safe and supported at school. Our hearts are with Nex Benedict’s family, friends, and entire school community in the wake of this horrific and gut-wrenching tragedy. pic.twitter.com/kVzyk3NSiZ
— Karine Jean-Pierre (@PressSec) February 23, 2024
In a new video released by Owasso Police, Nex Benedict describes how they were bullied by three girls for "the way that we dress."
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) February 24, 2024
After Nex dumped some water on them, the girls pinned Nex to the ground and beat Nex until Nex blacked outhttps://t.co/fgfl6wP8Rd
As demonstrated by Judd's post vs. the video he posted, Benedict is seen coherent, not suffering the severe physical assault being argued and boasting of how she overheard girls make a comment about how she laughed, which she didn't like. So, she threw water on them and started a fight, even grabbing one by the hair and slamming her into a paper towel dispenser.
Not quite the story of a frightened, young girl venturing into the bathroom only to be targeted, jumped and viciously beaten simply for who she was.
Time will tell.
