Oklahoma banned trans students from bathrooms. Now a bullied student is dead after a fight

by Esqueer_

29 comments
  1. This is the intended outcome.

    The only other explanation is incredible stupidity and I don’t think they are that stupid. This outcome was predicted. They were told things like this would happen and they did it anyway.

  2. Backward Trumper states seem to be in an endless contest to see which one can be the most horrible. Anybody ever notice the correlation between high levels of intolerant-to-monstrous political behavior and high levels of church attendance? Why is that?

  3. Whenever Oklahoma teenager Nex Benedict was bullied at school for being transgender, their mother Sue Benedict would encourage the 16-year-old to rise above their tormentors.

    “I said ‘you’ve got to be strong and look the other way, because these people don’t know who you are’,” Ms Benedict told The Independent in a phone interview.

  4. During an active shooter recently, there was a school that put a trans person’s life in danger because the designated place of safety was a girl’s locker room. Yes, they prioritized scrutinizing the genitalia of a student (metaphorically speaking I don’t think they had time to LITERALLY do that) during an active shooter situation. You can’t make this stuff up.

  5. It was bad enough kids killed a kid. But the reaction of school administrators deserves criminal investigation. Withholding paramedic care is inexcusable.

  6. Let’s not pretend this is an accident. It’s exactly what conservatives want to happen. This was always the goal.

  7. [Oklahoma’s Superintendent of Public Education appointed Chaya Raichik – a seriously hateful transphobe with a big ~~TikTok~~ Twitter following – to a state education job](https://www.dailydot.com/debug/ryan-walters-nex-benedict-libs-of-tiktok/). There was only one possible reason why: throwing red meat to their insane base at the expense of children’s safety.

    These people won’t be satisfied until their perceived enemies are all second-class citizens – or worse.

  8. And that coward Ryan Walters has not even bothered to comment

  9. They are also down playing that the three accused aggressors were female.

  10. there is violence in everything GOP elected officials say. their entire discourse is an exercise in hatred & incitation

  11. This is the natural and expected outcome of all the Republican-led fearmongering bathroom discourse. Oklahoma is a hell hole of a state.

  12. I hope the parents sue the school and the district for every dollar it’s worth. I know money won’t bring their child back but it will bring a lot of hurt.

  13. The young women who beat them should be sent into juvenile delinquency if they are below age. Anyone involved over 18, as well as the principal, should be on the hook for involuntary manslaughter for the beating that lead directly to the victim’s death, or negligent homicide as school administration — ultimately the principal — should have both intervened sooner, and called an ambulance for the victim’s injuries.

  14. The other kids mercilessly beat another child to death. That’s murder. Give them life imprisonment. If their parents condoned this behavior, they are worthless

  15. I really hate republicans and the Christian mafia behind this. 

  16. I’ve come around to the idea that violence at a high school should always result in an immediate call to the police.

    School administrators can’t be trusted to follow policy for things like kids cheating on tests. We absolutely should not trust them to deal with violence.

    Treat crimes as crimes.

  17. Fuck I’m so glad all these anti freedom laws are keeping the kids safe!

    Fucking ghouls.

  18. State sanctioned Pogroms against “Others” have always been the goal of the Right, and there will Always be a new group of “Others” no matter how many are liquidated.

  19. As this is the intent of anti trans bills, I imagine Republicans are overjoyed.

  20. Fuck that title. We have other words for ‘a fight’ that was not wanted or initiated or provoked.

    Fighting for one’s life comes after whatever we call ‘commencing to beat a kid to death’.

  21. When will enough be enough? Fuck Oklahoma who failed and facilitated this murder. Fuck the gop whose rhetoric helped cause it. Fuck the Christians who continue to support this hate and even endorse it. This child’s blood is all over you and I hope you never get it off.  Fuck This country.

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