3/15/24 UPDATE: Let’s make a few things clear, Nex Benedict did not die from suicide. 1. Pushing someone to end their life is still manslaughter at best and murder at worst. Nex was bullied all school year and pushed to it. 2. You cannot die from diphenhydramine, an antihistamine unless you drink gallons of it. So, this medical report that was released today needs to be investigated by the DOJ and the family likely needs to do a private autopsy to find the true cause of death. Sadly, far-right terrorist groups are already celebrating Nex’ death because they would rather us dead than be alive and LGBTQ.

@itsniqilisitsme4701

21 күн бұрын

People are celebrating fellow us Queer/LGBTQ+ people suffering, and I can't believe people are so hearttless. Being Queer is genetic and we should not be getting hurt for it

I was attacked in school, in the 80's. It was brutal & I spent the rest if the year eating in a stairwell. It's only getting worse. 😢

@voltijuice8576

5 ай бұрын

Same! This could have been me. There were many times when I was jumped and beaten bloody, kicked in the head by groups of kids. The only people who ever stood up for me were a few other brave students. The school staff/administration would literally see a pack of kids waiting outside for me and not do anything, not call anyone. Simply shoo me out the door and hope that it all works out.

@daviawyliefinch3017

5 ай бұрын

Same for me too, also the 80s. I was attacked multiple times, once in a bathroom. I was stalked for two weeks by someone who threatened to kill me. No one did anything.

@brsjb1202

5 ай бұрын

Same only late 70's, I went to the library for lunch break and gym.

@diabetusdan8

5 ай бұрын

Bullshit

@Keags-yn3pc

5 ай бұрын

nope@@diabetusdan8

I want to point out that the murderers of Brianna Ghey were recently both sentenced to life in prison with no parole for at least two decades. Even on terf island, there can be justice.

@user-xn6ry3qm6v

5 ай бұрын

Who is that?

@Bladii_

5 ай бұрын

@@user-xn6ry3qm6v A trans teen girl that was brutally murdered by two other teenagers in the UK. Google is your friend here ^^

@vivianriver6450

5 ай бұрын

@@user-xn6ry3qm6vBrianna Ghey was a 15 year old transgender girl who was knifed to death in a public park on terf island in February 2023. Her death was a hate crime perpetrated by two 15 year olds: a boy and a girl, who stabbed her more than two dozen times. Investigators presented text messages to the courts documenting that the killers hated her for being a trans girl and discussed her using dehumanizing terms.

@ribby9687

5 ай бұрын

this is a different case, this case outlies a corruption and flippant disregard for the lives of trans people in the entire schooling system of that wretched state. the federal government needs to get involved. Biden needs a fucking spine.

@42seven

5 ай бұрын

nice job commenting that on a video of a dead indigenous person, you're such a good person!

"We'd make Oklahoma schools safer for kids" A STUDENT LITERALLY DIED BECAUSE OF YOUR BELIEFS!

@voltijuice8576

5 ай бұрын

With bigots, the question is always "for whom?" Safer _for whom?_ More freedom _for whom?_ Justice _for whom?_ Better economy _for whom?_ So they aren't exactly lying, their framing is implicit that it's for the groups who they think matter, and punishing those who they think don't. I don't get why more people aren't in uproar over politicians actually saying that they refuse to represent their constituents! If your government drops its end of the social contract, why would you expect me to comply with it?

@ajasen

5 ай бұрын

​@@voltijuice8576 it's not safer for anybody though. Cis people aren't safer.

@voltijuice8576

5 ай бұрын

@@ajasen - I agree, but it really isn't about gender. Or race, even. It's about consolidating power through exploiting the ingroup/outgroup dynamics in culture. And using that to decide who they want the "winner's circle" to be. Usually that translates to "the rich people".

@SlickSimulacrum

5 ай бұрын

This hearkens back to the foundations of liberty. Liberty is all or nothing. If any person or group can have their liberties compromised, anybody's liberties can be compromised. To undermine the safety of "others," you undermine your own safety. This is why fascists only ever create instability and violence wherever they manifest. Othering, exclusivity, supremacy; the mechanisms of fragmentation and destruction of culture and society, --- Religion brings with it rigid and a-contextual structures. By its very nature, religion cannot operate in a secular society without giving up all of its power and influence. And you tell me which religions are going to give up all their power to include themselves with many "others" they deem lower than them on the pyramid... Religion propagates hate, bigotry, and right-wing hierarchical world views. It is inherent to the power dynamics of the various religious organizations that they do this to protect their institutional power. Religion is the ultimate mechanism of control; the eradication of freedom and choice. Misinformation is authoritarianism. Misinformation deny's a person comprehension of their world, and causes their own intuitions to betray them. Controlling the possible choices they might make.

@AncestralForest

5 ай бұрын

aka, they don't want it get out next time /:

the Governor and every member of the Legislator that voted for this bill is guilty of this murder.

@coinsilver3

5 ай бұрын

Exactly, that bill seems to be designed to lead to such thing to happen on purpose. It's very malicious.

@yourdumbgreentoaster

5 ай бұрын

They failed this kid big time☹️

@minacapella8319

5 ай бұрын

​@coinsilver3 it's essentially genocide.

@nutmegriot209

5 ай бұрын

It’s stochastic terrorism. Plain & simple

@dawnsites4232

5 ай бұрын

They are guilty of pushing the agenda forward.

I went to Owasso highschool, Im lucky I made it out alive. The bullies have always been bad, The amount of times I was bullied in that school discrect and they just shoved it under the rug. Owasso has only ever cared about its appearance less the lives of their kids. They have posters all over that school for anti bullying, yet they do nothing to stop it only keep it as quite as possible. The shit that has gone down in that school if horrifying and any previous Owasso student would tell you the same. Owasso has only ever cared about their image and often let bullies get away with awful shit, they failed this child, and they failed their school.

@PoweredByRainbows

5 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing your experiences. In a school with that many issues, it makes me incredibly sad to hear they concentrated on bullying a non-binary child and helping the bullies all school year get away with it rather than fixing some actual problems. It feels like their efforts and time could have been better spent elsewhere.

@KOZMOuvBORG

5 ай бұрын

Suggest reading 𝘉𝘶𝘭𝘭𝘺𝘰𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘺: 𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘏𝘪𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘺 𝘌𝘯𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦𝘴 𝘉𝘶𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘙𝘶𝘭𝘦 𝘚𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘰𝘭𝘴, 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘬 𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘚𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘵𝘺 𝘢𝘵 𝘓𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘦 by Dionald Jeffries. Puts in a neat package how "popular (psychopathic) people" are given a pass to be assholes while their victims gets scapegoated and pilloried.

@J.C...

5 ай бұрын

🤦🤣 It was school, not prison. Jesus Christ.

@goingslowlynowhere

5 ай бұрын

@@J.C... What is your point? That murder is more common in prison than schools? I mean, uh. I guess you are right?

@Jessesgirl0307

5 ай бұрын

It's everywhere. I live in Fl and was brutally assaulted and beat a couple of times for years by black girls. Kids are just mean. It doesn't matter how you identify. They will pick on you for being emo back in the 90's. If you weren't popular you were picked on. I was picked on by a different group, who were told a lie by a guy, because he thought I was going to report him raping me. So he wanted to make up a story first because he was a popular kid.

Please let us know when there’s a fundraiser. We will donate.

@computer1up

5 ай бұрын

Yeah, found the there’s a gofundme campaign. Not posting the link since posting/clicking links in a YT comment is generally not a great idea

This reminds me of the Seth Walsh case... Seth was one of my friends. He was bullied absolutely relentlessly by his peers and professors/other school staff alike because of lgbt+ discrimination, and ended his own life when it became too much to bear. Harassed, beaten, just put through absolute hell. If he didn't end his life, I'm sure someone else would have killed him. Its been over ten years and as someone who is also lgbt+ my heart hurts and I still don't feel safe/comfortable in my own home town, especially not near the campus where Seth and I attended We have to remain strong and fight for a future where generations beyond us won't have to worry about cruel, vicious people who won't accept people for loving whoever they love or identifying however they personally choose to identify

RIP Nex 🏳️‍⚧️💔

High school in Oklahoma was absolutely horrible and it's clearly gotten worse for the LGBTQIA community.

@ItsCoreyLynxxYall

5 ай бұрын

Literally everywhere in the US. Even in California and New York. This is a whole new level of abuse that wasn't seen when I was in high school in the early 2000s. Something is happening to teens in this country and the source of the problem needs to be addressed.

@dragonwolfzero820

5 ай бұрын

​@@ItsCoreyLynxxYallit's the internet allowing the expansion of extremism. Of course the internet helps many people find each other and people similar to them. This applies to good and bad groups.

@maxpotion

5 ай бұрын

I think Elon Musk is using Twitter to organize nazis to commit terrorism against lgbtqia+

@rob9368

5 ай бұрын

The Trump right kids are becoming bolder

@dragonwolfzero820

5 ай бұрын

@@rob9368 I think it's the whole right at this point Since 2016

And if those 3 girls did all of that and then return to class as if nothing had happened, isn’t that also murder in cold blood?

@youtubeuserremainsanonymou9022

5 ай бұрын

legally it is hate crime + manslaughter. They likely knew they were causing severe pain/injury, but were not aware they were triggering a brain bleed leading to death.

@AmyraCarter

5 ай бұрын

First degree murder.

@robertmarsh5322

5 ай бұрын

Hmm, second degree. Proving that they planned and set out with murder specifically in mind sounds unlikely.

@FunAngelo2005

5 ай бұрын

Yes

@nathanmcleod9497

5 ай бұрын

Actually this would be considered manslaughter in a court of law. Not murder. They had no intention of killing her. Youre supposed to walk away from bullies not follow them into a bathroom and throw water in their face. Exspecially not with three other people. She was looking for a fight and got it and lost.

going out in public is more terrifying everyday, rest in peace Nex, you will not be forgotten.

Why can’t humans live in peace. Accept each and every one for who they are. It’s awful

@gabed.2632

5 ай бұрын

say it louder for the people on the back!

Hoping that this will go away someday is not soon enough, we need to band together and put a stop to this! Lives are being threatened and lost. A stand needs to be made.

Thanks for keeping us up to date on this story.

I am a trans kid (ftm) that lives in Oklahoma. I will be going to high school soon. My current school is small so I have a close circle of supportive friends who are either allies or also LGTBQ. However, I'm absolutely terrified after hearing the many stories of people who were beaten in high school for just being themselves. I'm gonna have to go to a large high school, which will be a big step for me as someone from a smaller school. The large school idea scares me as I'll have to make new friends and don't know who I can trust. The story of Nex really hit close to home since I've experienced transphobia before (from parents, grandparents, classmates, etc.) and I hope I can avoid this happening to me.

@O_Ciel_Phant0mhive

5 ай бұрын

I wish the absolute best and we have you and everyone queer kids back. I’m also transmasc so I get it. Be brave ❤ we’re all in this together.

@otkucorner8274

5 ай бұрын

I wish you luck, my dude.

@kyleinthejar6829

5 ай бұрын

As a trans guy who’s in my senior year, I wish you the best of luck. I plan to graduate this year and I know several other trans people who will as well, I’m sure you will too one day

@singingsam40

5 ай бұрын

Wishing you all the very best, stay safe ❤

@migoreng7789

5 ай бұрын

take care 💜

Rest in peace Nex. We shall overcome someday.

Thank you for breaking down this situation and making Nex's life feel valued. As a Canadian, I appreciate the subtle context, and I'm learning more from you than investigative journalists on major USA networks! To cover your ass legally, I recommend using the word "ALLEGEDLY" to preface certain segments about individuals or organizations, when pointing out perceived wrongdoing or criminal activity that has yet to be proven in court with a conviction.

as a trans woman I am lucky to be safe in a place called Sweden. I get sad every time hearing about the hate targeting another LGBTQIA+ person especially someone trans like me. hearing that no one got charged for the crimes of Nex so far makes it even worse. I haven't been able to stop stop crying when hearing about this

Owasso High School principal Tiffani Cooper allowed this abuse to go on for a year before Nex's death. Cooper also didn't stand up for the teacher at that school who was forced into resignation in 2022 due to a Libs of Tiktok harrassment campaign over a video that teacher made saying they are an ally to the LGBTQ+ community. That teacher was possibly the only ally Nex had at that school. The abuse against Nex got exponentially worse after that.

Words can’t describe how shitty I feel ever since I heard these news. All I can say right now is rest in peace Nex ❤ we love you, miss you and justice will come your way 🏳️‍⚧️

as for the stonewall thing, i'm shocked it hasn't happened already, with everything that's been happening in america. like im not saying the current queer community is weak or anything, but nothing else is seeming to work. we need to do something.

@volk4523

5 ай бұрын

People are afraid to mobilize, which is a serious mistake. We have to come out in force, and be at least mildly threatening to our enemies. Queer people basically have to relearn it's okay to be fierce.

@42seven

5 ай бұрын

@@volk4523 thanks for saying what i was trying to say but better. this is what i meant

This is heartbreaking and super scary. As a nonbinary person, i wish Nex all the love and support. I wish things had turned out differently. Rest in peace Nex, we will all support and love you forever. ❤️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 We will never rest until Nex and all other trans, nonbinary people, and LGBTQ people get justice for this!!! #justiceforNex!!

@randomfanatic3178

4 ай бұрын

I agree #justiceforNex

get full documentation and a second autopsy as this situation looks like a brain bleed death and coroners often do less than stellar work

@amyh9512

5 ай бұрын

*bias work

@yahwehvii6059

5 ай бұрын

George Floyd’s death was ruled as an OD but was later proved to be murder. This will be the same outcome when another autopsy is done then legal actions are taken.

@TheoRae8289

4 ай бұрын

That was my thought too. That's how one of my upperclassmen passed away. She had a seizure and hit the side of the sink. She got through the rest of the day but passed before the next from the brain bleed.

@yoyohayli

4 ай бұрын

For some reason, they are taking a looooong time to release the autopsy report

When I first heard about this I was actually wondering if it's just not common policy in the US to keep people for observation for the night after serious head trauma (you know, because the US medical system is fucked and an over night hospital stay (especially if it involved being taken by an ambulance) can bankrupt a person) hearing that it is policy but didn't happen makes this even worse somehow...

I hope there is a lawsuit and charges made, we need #JusticeForNex

I am a semi closeted autistic Trans nonbinary aroace and the idea of there being a second Stone Wall or a civil war terrifies me. I grew up in the 80’s and 90’s and am still learning how to use new pronouns when referring to other.

Last August I was escorted from a hospital while going to have a mammogram because of a intersex condition I was born with. The staff did not like it when they saw my records showed that I was nonbinary. Two people confronted me in the waiting room and the escorted right out the front door of the hospital. I tried to tell them that I had ovarian cancer and carried the genetic markers for both ovarian and breast cancer, the reason for the mammogram. I was so humiliated and depressed after. You have no idea how much I have suffered in my life because of this. I was born different and a guess that upsets some people. But I need basic medical care and that is being with held.

@tubebrocoli

5 ай бұрын

This is completely unhinged, they're supposed to be there for you, to help you. I'm sure escorting someone off the hospital because of hate is medical malpractice. All the support for you, I hope we can make people understand that intersex conditions are a thing and aren't even that uncommon.

@curiousone926

5 ай бұрын

That is most definitely grounds for a lawsuit for discrimination. If this were hospital employees doing this in a public area they broke their Hippa laws.

@Jimmy-sj9ny

4 ай бұрын

@@curiousone926 HIPAA relates primarily to medical records privacy. How does hospital employees escorting somebody off-premises violate HIPAA? There could be other issues but HIPAA seems like a stretch.

About halfway through the video, you switched to using she/her pronouns for Nex. You didn't do this in the last video. ...Sorry. I can't do anything about this. I can't help. We can't bring Nex back. But we can at least honor their memory.

@DinosaurNick

5 ай бұрын

Maybe he was talking about someone else?

Native American

PEOPLE FIRST! No human being should have been treated so shabily. This was a child in a place of learning. A place where they had a rite to be protected. A place where others had a responsibility to provide that protection. Shame on them! Shame on the parents for disregarding their heritage. Native peoples have recognized 2 spirit individuals for thousands of years. They have been a venerated part of our culture. This never should have happened. Regardless of; race, religion, gender identity, sex, or sexuality. We are human beings first. We are one people. See family not labels. Care for each other. One team one dream. Humanity first. We...are the only chance any of us has for survival in what is to come.

@taylozen

5 ай бұрын

thank you thank you, i've seen so many people react inhumanely to the death of a child for political reasons. i can't imagine what their family is going through..

This is horrible if people did their job correctly Nex may have lived but their dead Rest in peace sweet child #JusticeForNex

thank you for reporting on this but you did slip up on nex's pronouns/gender identity a few times without correcting yourself. please just be careful next time.

@PoweredByRainbows

5 ай бұрын

I do appreciate the comment here and apologize for the mistake on my part. This story has me very upset and talking about the grandmother as she/her was getting mixed up in my mind. Nex on their social media did use they/them and she/her but they did prefer they/them over she/her. So I am sorry for this mistake and will be careful in the future. It’s just a terrible story that I made the mistake. Thank you again for the constructive feedback.

@strawabri

5 ай бұрын

@@PoweredByRainbows of course! again thank you for covering so much of this story, i haven't seen anyone else go into such detail. also, i wasn't aware that nex went by they/she actually! i never checked their socials and i have only ever seen people use they/them so i assumed that they only went by that.

@amyh9512

5 ай бұрын

​@PoweredByRainbows Hi Dave, you did a terrible thing in saying that mabey we need another stonewall. We need another selma or bensonhurst. If there's sacrifice the noble thing is to sacrifice onself. That will get respect. Thats why the civil rights act was signed in 1964. You missed the benefit of peaceful protest. It is powerful

@strawabri

5 ай бұрын

@@amyh9512 the thing is, many peaceful protests happen. i have been apart of them, yet no one is listening. no one wants a violent uprising, but it is eventually what happens when those in power do not listen to the peaceful voices of the oppressed.

@amyh9512

5 ай бұрын

@strawabri I think missed what I wrote. The protest you were involved in was not what I'm talking about. I'd advise that you do some digging into selma and bensonhurst before responding again

I believe there’s more to the story in relation to Nex’s bio family because if she was adopted at 2 because they were transophobic when she was only 2 and she got all of the kids so there’s something else.

@r8edrv4fun65

5 ай бұрын

There is a sibling who is LGBT.

The day after Nex died, another student OD. My friends kid goes to Owasso.

I very much appreciate your coverage. I mourn the loss of Nex and all the other victims of hatred and discrimination. 😢🏳️‍⚧️

I’m a trans man in alabama and it’s absolutely awful down here, I tend to keep my head down and watch my back in the restrooms and I thank whatever higher power that there’s a single stall bathroom in the band room and I’m allowed to use it.

rip Nex...

Thanks for making this video and the one yesterday. 💔

I'm at loss for words... This feels like you're Hercules Poirot solving a case with so many more guilty people than we thought, except it's not a novel. It's not a movie. It's REAL. Someone from our community had their life taken away from them and this is what happens. Thank you Dr Pride for relaying this information to us. It hurts like hell that our sibling was murdered, and what's worse, we can't even grieve them together knowing the full story. To all my trans and nonbinary siblings out there, and my Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer brethren on Turtle Island, I love you. You are not alone ❤ I went out to the water and sang a song for Nex last night. A neighbour's cat followed me as I hummed it on the way. I'd like to think that this cat was sending love to Nex as well, knowing how much they loved cats.

😢 I’m absolutely heartbroken to hear of the loss of Nex. 😮 the fact that terrorists are in charge of education is frightening. As a parent of a queer kid I’m furious. Kids need to be safe.

@jkzfamily4090

5 ай бұрын

You just can't help yourself with your hateful speech towards anyone who thinks differently from your ideology culture box. Yes it's sad and things are only getting worse in school with this new ideology that has no boundaries. If people only knew how to respect each other, and mind their own business without trying to force others their ideas.

@jkzfamily4090

5 ай бұрын

You just can't help yourself with your hateful speech towards anyone who thinks differently from your ideology culture box. Yes it's sad and things are only getting worse in school with this new ideology that has no boundaries. If people only knew how to respect each other, and mind their own business without trying to force others their ideas.

@CelestialNerd336

5 ай бұрын

@@jkzfamily4090 lol a kid just got put in the ground and you're clutching your pearls about calling a spade a spade? These terrorists forced Nex to use the girl's bathroom, and then Nex got beat to death in it. If you want to be a terrorist sympathizer, that's your business. But I'm gonna call you what you are no matter how much you whine about it.

Two close friends have lost their LGBTQ children to suicide due to bullying, just in the past few months. So hard to understand the hate.

thank you so much for this video, this is something i didn't even know happened. this would be a textbook cautionary tale of the outcome of transphobic bathroom bills leading to violence in the way conservatives clearly don't want to believe it will, but there's a lot of willful ignoring of facts from the same people shouting "facts don't care about your feelings" while wanting american history to be taught without the events of slavery, segregation, and anything at all related to systemic racism literally because "it'll make kids feel bad for being white!". nex was failed so severely by the people claiming they care about children's safety. the cause of death being "natural causes" makes literally no sense whatsoever. unless they can prove that nex had preexisting conditions that could lead to them dying in such a way, they shouldn't even bother with that nonsense. even if they could, nex died the day after being violently attacked and sustaining a head injury in said attack, someone is *absolutely* responsible for their death, without a shadow of a doubt. the only craziness of this that i can understand and cosign is ordering a toxicology report, purely for the sake of the possibility that nex could've tried to harm themselves after experiencing something so traumatic, and that potentially contributing to their passing, but it looks like that isn't the case. i can't believe this. i'm absolutely shattered after hearing this case.

@osc-omb47896

5 ай бұрын

I do feel shit for being white, what I do know is that I am and I can't do shit about that. Accepting that we have some terrible history stops it happening again.

@ravani_

5 ай бұрын

also iirc "natural causes" isn't even a valid COD a coroner is allowed to give as it's a colloquial term for a group of things and not an actual cause of death itself

It's so painful each time I heard about the injustice and murder happening to our amazing community on the daily, RIP Nex I hope that we get justice for you extremely soon, to everyone else stay safe you are all valued

The schools don’t stop the bullying it does not mater who you are. Anti Bullying has to be stopped forever one from preschool up.

Considering the Texas situation what makes you think the states will abide by that law.

I’m so angry, sad and disgusted that this happened. Poor Nex didn’t deserve to have their life taken away from them. They were just trying to live their life but then these horrible people took that away from them. And the fact that the school did nothing just makes it worse. And the nurse lying about what happened? Absolutely vile. Rest in peace Nex 🕊️

Nex may the great spirits be with you

"PROTECT THE CHILDREN" they said. Uh-huh. I totally believe their intentions. Totally. I can't wrap my brain around the apathy and cruelty this case involves. Rest in power.

Why isn't there hate crime legislation or anti terror legislation?

@samanthapatrick4345

5 ай бұрын

Well I live in the uk and at times hate crimes are difficult to prove I don't really know your laws there and I don't know if the same in the US as it is here when it comes to proving hate crimes

@osc-omb47896

5 ай бұрын

Well now there's a terrorist in power, so I think we're fucked on that...

@sophiejones3554

5 ай бұрын

There is hate crime legislation in the US. Other such crimes have been appropriately prosecuted, but hate crimes against transgender or indigenous people often go un-reported or underreported and may not be appropriately prosecuted. This is very far from the first murder of a Two Spirit person which has been ignored by a state. There was an infamous case in the 90s in New Mexico, involving a Diné child murdered in the desert by a gang of boys. This is just the first one which happened because of bathroom bills and other transphobic legislation (as opposed to just cultural transphobia). The laws exist to punish these people, but there seems to be a lack of interest in doing justice.

@jennaxoxox4821

5 ай бұрын

The US federal government has hate crime laws. Oklahoma does not. So, unless the federal government gets involved, this will never be tried as a hate crime.

I ventured into the news reports comments. It was very bad for my mental health. The number of hate comments far outweighs anything decent. I have two transgender kids. I pulled my kids out of public high school because the bullying against my kids, started by the head football coach, was just never ending. As I was signing my kids out of school, the vice principal who refused to deal with the bullying over two whole years, actually tried to tell us they have a “zero tolerance” stance on bullying. No. I have zero tolerance on bullying, which is why I’ve had to pull all three of my LGBTQ+ kids out of public schools.

JUSTICE FOR NEX!!! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️

As long as I live, I will never understand parents who hate their children, simply, for who they are. This awful, needless death of a beautiful child breaks my heart. 💜

@monicadaniels784

4 ай бұрын

Exactly!

I don't get why there are so many people disrespecting their pronouns, it's clear they use they them

My dad just told me at work to smile, what do I have to smile about rn? Btw I work in the back of the building with no customer interaction

I'm sickened to be living in this horrible state Stitt and friends created. I was barely protected before those laws passed, and once they did I was treated horribly for using the right bathroom in school. Oklahoma is not safe for lgbt kids and I'm ashamed to have been born here.

and stop calling them "indian". Indians are from India. This is Native American or Indigenous

@makari8884

5 ай бұрын

the only reason to get picky about lables here is telling folks to name tribes, Choctaw in Nex's case. some folks choose to identify as american indian. lables will always be a huge gray area and indian is very much a grey area here because some folks self identify that way.

Love & peace to Nex & loved ones..❤ so sorry

Chaya Raichik, Kevin Stitt, and Ryan Walters have just as much blood on their hands as the bullies that did this to Nex

Jesus. What did Nex do to anyone??? This is so fucked up.

@jamesverner9132

4 ай бұрын

They were proof that the religion dogma is flawed.

This situation is truly awful. As a trans kid myself this terrifies me, that there can be so much hate out there that something with evidence is not considered a hate crime, because it is. Nex was attacked because of their gender. They were previously bullied because of it. They were denied basic humanity that any cis person is provided. Let justice be served to them even after death. RIP Nex.

Small nitpick, but saying someone “identifies as” something is a little bit disrespectful when you could just say they ARE non-binary. No one would say a cisgender man “identifies as” a man, they just are.

@ohnothepossum

5 ай бұрын

another thing i noticed is that now in this video there are she/her pronouns used for nex despite in the last video it was strictly they/them. Do we now know that nex also used she/her or is this a mess up as well?

@ohnothepossum

5 ай бұрын

@dankfinch how dare i ask a question lol

@SirMaddaMMetzo

5 ай бұрын

@@ohnothepossum I have only seen in the comment section from another youtuber a person who said he and Nex were close friends and who used he/him pronouns for Nex. While other pointed out, that apparently Nex had They/He set as pronouns in their profile, however PoweredByRaindbows apologized for the slip up in another comment thread, but also stated that Nex apparently also used she/her on their social media with a preference for they/them. It could be that Vex used all pronouns, or that those information could be from different times in their life or different people only knew of certain pronoun usage but weren't kept up to date, or were even allowed to use pronouns that others weren't. (Reminds me of a non-binary kid who was with their dad at a local group meeting for the parents of LGBTQ+ kids and there he found out, that his kid hasn't told him everything so far about their identity, the pronouns and what words to use or not.) I think sticking to they/them is probably the safest we can assume that Ney would have wanted.

@sarahdooley6164

4 ай бұрын

​@dankfinch Wow! You're weird as hell for reacting that way to a simple question.

Tribes have always accepted their own two spirit, until catholic and Christian values were forced on us

@supertrucker99

4 ай бұрын

Uhh not true if they were shunned they left with NOTHING THEY WERE NOT EVEN GIVEN A WATER BAG. sporadic tribes have strict codes to keep the pack SAFE AND thriving ...including swapping a female for a female sane age ...to boost their seed. It has been known thru the ages that u must have fresh genes to keep growing as a tribe.... Tribes who carried on these traditions ARE STILL OUT THERE IN THE JUNGLES TO THIS DAY.

@AlexReynard

4 ай бұрын

So why was the term "two spirit" coined int he 1990s by white activists?

This young person dealt with more than one kind of trauma. There is Mental, Emotional, Physical, and Psychological Trauma each one affecting a person differently involved in the action taken against her. I feel sad for the teens coming up now. Yes there was anti-gay sentiments when i went to high school in the late 60's early 70's, but most of the "unique" communities masked their true identities back then. I was a victim of S.A., physical, emotional and psychological abuse that came from being female AND autistic.. I learned how to mask YOUNG so i did not get the attention of bullies (staff or student). I hate to ask children to live behind a mask like i had to but that may be the only way they can stay safe.

your own repeated misgendering of nex in this video after labouring the point of how horrible it was that nex’s family misgendered them even after death is VERY disappointing. please do better.

@42seven

5 ай бұрын

yeah, and yet calling out the grandmother...

@PoweredByRainbows

5 ай бұрын

The grandmother said Nex used both they and she pronouns but preferred they. So I tried to keep to they but two times in the video used she for Nex. The other she/her pronouns in the video are used for the grandmother, the principal, the terrorist hate group founder, the 3 murderer girls, and the mother.

that doesn't make sense, gender identity we know as trans has always been part of indigenous culture

@melissahyslop1324

4 ай бұрын

This is inconvenient, but her “bullies” were black so it had nothing to do with being indigenous.

being splashed with water isn't a valid excuse to start beating the water thrower within an inch of their life. in most cases, doing that as an adult would easily have both parties arrested, but im seeing way more hate being thrown at Nex than the ones who escalated it into a fight. i have a hunch that Nex lashed out like that because of prior bullying (from my own experience, it completely changes the way you interpret what others do/say). obviously throwing water at someone for making a comment about the way you laugh is extreme, but those girls should have simply said "what's wrong with you" and told the principal or whatever. the "f around and find out" narrative doesn't apply here, these are hormonal teenagers that haven't had the opportunity to explore the "real world" yet. if people continue to praise the girls as "heroes", school violence could get way worse. it's already bad enough where i live--and i can imagine that fights will become more of a first resort rather than a last resort if you all keep saying that this is okay. im worried for _anyone_ still in school, because this is the perfect fuel for a bully's fire. i'm not going to respond to any comments, so feel however you choose to feel about my perspective. stay safe and take care of yourselves, all of you.

I know you probably go through a lot, following and reporting on this case and we are all very emotional about it. But I personally would be more careful to throw around words like psychopath. It's a spectrum and people can have psychopathy traits without "scoring high enough" to count as fully fledged psychopath, but still could get stigmatized if psychopathy gets always linked with criminals who hurt or kill people. And research indicates that even when they can't feel empathy, they still can learn to think from another person's perspective. Those girls could have psychopathic traits or they could just be hateful, violent bigots who saw Nex as less than human and therefore not deserving any empathy. But we agree that almost all of the people involved in this case NEED to be investigated! We need to know if someone had a transphobic motive to mistreat them or if someone is overall not capable of doing their job correctly or if there are any other circumstances that would diminish their guilt or level of involvement, because they themselves might have been misinformed or deceived. And more importantly: Even IF another autopsy was made and would come to the unlikely conclusion that the head injuries Nex suffered from the beating did not contribute to their death, then these girls still should face investigation and a trial for the assault and bodily harm itself! Especially when Nex trans identity (and/or their indigenous identity) probably played a major role in why the girls used that level of violence. I don't know enough about the criminal justice system in Oklahoma, but even if pouring water on someone counts as an attack and that Nex had "started" a fight, then what the girls did, surpassed self-defense by a lot! The moment an aggressor goes down and even black out, you stop assaulting them! You can't say it was self defense when you continued to kick their head, while they lied on the ground. So even if there is no chance to put them on trial for murder or manslaughter or something similar, then at least for their level of violence and bodily harm. Like that is the bare f*cking minimum I expect to happen to them.

As hard as it might be for this family standing up for what’s right! Regardless of stupid Oklahoma’s bad taste for 🏳️‍🌈… Nex deserves a private autopsy! This is just such a sad end… and it’s totally a hate crime among other things. I live in Canada and I’m pretty sure there is a pride week where my mom works as a school teacher. JUSTICE FOR NEX!

Start writing in to president biden people

@kai1671

5 ай бұрын

That’s actually a good idea, maybe even ask for a second opinion for another medical examiner that’s not transphobic or paid by anyone to lie, to tell the truth

@kai1671

5 ай бұрын

Wait I don’t think it matters now.. there is a government shut down happening now….

8:52 that sure does make me feel safe i really do hate my state sometimes and this whole thing is happening in MY HOMETOWN! Fuck!

@boldnessofsouls3502

5 ай бұрын

I love your pfp.

@computer1up

5 ай бұрын

I… would get the fuck out of there. If you can.

@JulieBlueSerb

4 ай бұрын

What's a liberry?

As somebody who’s in Florida I totally agree. I like to go to the library sometimes and holy shit it’s so fucking empty. It’s like a Ghost Town. I totally agree that is so accurate.

I 100% support the uplifting of Nex Benedict and their name, and we should fight that this does not happen ever again. This issue is no longer just an American problem, and is spreading, there has even been talking within our own coalition government here in New Zealand about introducing discrimination around bathrooms and trans sports people which horrifies and disgusts me. We must stand against phonbia's against the LGBTQIA+ community, and particularly transphoboa. That being said, Michelle Obama said it right, "when they go low, we go high", and so even putting out into the world the idea that LGBTQIA+ people will take up arms, will resort to the violence that is perpetrated against us does a disservice to our movement. Stonewall was a powerful movement, and around the world, LGBTQIA+ people have carried forward a spirit of protest which has become a necessary part of our identity ... but let's not give the movements that will twist anything against us this ammunition [excuse the pun], to claim that the gays are threatening to kill them, will take up guns and assault weapons against them. That is what those "people" [I term I use loosely] have done to us, we are better, we are smarter, we stand in what is right and what is just, and we will win ... the way we have for decades ... by forcing legal and political change ... not by stooping to the tactics of the phobes who want nothing more than an excuse to kill us. America's gun laws are not in our favour, we need to work with what we are good at, and show the other side they while they are the lowest of the low, we will ALWAYS be better because we don't let hate win.

@IsaacMyers1

5 ай бұрын

ah yes, the civility politics trap. It has been shown time and again that they will do anything to prevent us from having a seat at the table. should we resort to violence? no. Can we use “proper channels”? alas, also no. That’s going to be the major problem. look at how they treat LGBTQ+ people who get elected, they will push you out for just stating that there’s blood on people’s hands. what will likely happen, unfortunately, is there will be peaceful protests that will be treated like the BLM protests, treated as violent riots. And they will likely become what they claim. I don’t know how to deal with the situation, but what can be done in the face of genocidal freaks?

@osc-omb47896

5 ай бұрын

​@@IsaacMyers1I pray so much that this gets better, but it's definitely gonna be tough. I so hope people can just learn. Learn that LGBTQ+ is not causing a dystopia - they are. We're fucked and I'm glad at least some people know what they're talking about and are... fucking decent human beings...

How many more of us have to die?

@DinosaurNick

5 ай бұрын

All of us, if they have their way. We need to fight, stick together, survive, win.

@dragonwolfzero820

5 ай бұрын

You know when people ask why we have pride... It's because lgbtq+ people are still dying, everywhere. I had a coworker who had a friend who was murdered for being lgbtq+ in my state None of the authorities should get away with looking the other way for the murder of Nex

@itsniqilisitsme4701

19 күн бұрын

Transfe- here. As professor pride said. If these abusive hate cri-inals dont stop hurtingg us. Us Transgender people, us LGBTQ+ people will have to fight back

Rest in peace, Nex. You were very, very brave from all I've heard. You will be missed, by all of us💛🤍💜🖤

at about 46:50, you misgender Nex again. this one hit me as you're passionately talking about them being murdered. This one jumped out. Would love a small edit here

I knew ok was awful i need to get the hell out of this state as soon as i can

Okay, I heard from a news source they were unsure what the cause of death was (given the report), and didn’t want to say anything like “head trauma” until they knew.

Don't forget to upvote people!!!

I can't believe this was all over something as harmless as what someone identifies as.

Justice for Nex and all of the other trans and queer youth who were murdered with no one knowing.

hey friend, thank you for this thorough coverage. I especially appreciate your efforts to gender Nex correctly throughout this video. I have noticed a spot around 38:15, in a section where you speak about Nex's grandmother's mistakes in her obituary, that you use the wrong pronouns for Nex- mistakenly calling them "she" a couple times. I definitely understand how that slipped out given that you're using feminine pronouns in the same sentence to speak about grandmother. You seem like someone who takes this seriously and would want to be notified if something slipped through the editing cracks, so I thought I'd drop a note. Maybe you can fix it or add a disclaimer? Be well

the killer high school girls should get life in prison like these two- Jon Venables and Robert Thompson

Native American, not Indian.

thanks so much i appreciate how you updated us on the situation and truth

Feds should get involved for justice... That police department is hella sus.

@IsaacMyers1

5 ай бұрын

correction: all police departments are sus

@FunAngelo2005

5 ай бұрын

YEAH!!!!

I'm pretty sure a toxicology report is pretty par for the course for anyone who dies without an apparent cause of death. They likely suspected suicide. I would find it more strange if they didn't do one. Could you please provide a link for these updates?

It's not terrorism if you agree with the terrorist! - Oklahoma politicians, probably.

National anti-hate crime laws NOW!

50 bills proposed?! That's almost one bill PER DAY since the start of the year (more than one per day if you don't include weekends and holidays)! This is not ok!

@awkwardukulele6077

5 ай бұрын

there were around 600 bills proposed last year too, so the number was closer to 2 a day.

Transphobia kills. Nex didn't deserve this. Stay safe everyone.

If you're a parent or guardian of a trans teen or child, going to school in a red state. Pull them out, move. Protect your children because these are incredibly dangerous environments for them.

@luvyatubers

5 ай бұрын

No, stay, fight and win. You are forgetting that gay newborns coming in everyday need safety too

If Nex was lucky enough to be prescribed any pain medication (I wouldn't count on the transphobic medical staff to have done that much, but it's possible), then that will show up in the toxicology report. The next step for the transphobic law enforcement will then be to point to "dangerous opioids" in their system, even if it was just a normal dose of oxycodone that people take all the time. That's why they're waiting for the toxicology report.

@JackieBlue65

5 ай бұрын

Pain meds are tough to get,I'm in constant pain. I'm lucky enough to have a Dr who knows and understands me ,I don't think meds are given out regarding sexuality

@lissabaker7414

5 ай бұрын

Texas doesn't give strong enough and much pain medication to overdose on, even if you really need strong pain medication 😂

Your channel was super helpful when I was going through accepting myself. Keep up the good work, this case is truly terrible. It's unfortunate that multiple decisions were made negligently. I feel like if everyone wanted to help Nex, they would've been alive or at least we would've known about their death beforehand. RIP

Grateful for the coverage, but please use native American or indigenous, as Indian is an offensive term.

@bluejava9397

5 ай бұрын

Not all consider it offensive. 🤷‍♀️

I fear where Oklahoma is going. I wish peace upon the family and strength to fight back against the bigoted Oklahoma. Chi Pisa La Chike Nex Benedict 🏳️‍🌈

@lloroshastar6347

5 ай бұрын

Forget Oklahoma, this is where the US is going if polls are to be believed. Welcome to America's future, and this is only the tip of the iceberg, the US is doomed.

Safer for kids... which kids?? Not all of them, obviously.

This is disgusting. I myself are Under the nonbinary umbrella. I am scared for myself and my other friends. We are literally just existing. I can’t with this.

There are no words to describe how disgusted I am that this was allowed to happen in the first place, Nex did not deserve what happened to them. rest in peace Nex, you will be missed dearly.

I’m sorry, I was an RN for 5” years in small rural and large city ER’s. I ‘ve never seen a person’s sexual orientation held against them in care delivery Catholicor public hospitals. No testing or care withheld..😢

@knewton8445

5 ай бұрын

Sorry 50 years.