It started with a law requiring students to use bathrooms that match the sex on their birth certificates
They were bullied, and then beaten by other kids. Clearly with the tacit support of adults. They wouldn't even call an ambulance.
This was the same school where a teacher targeted by Chaya Raichik for supporting LGBTQ kids was forced to quit.
Politics creates the atmosphere that turns children into monsters.
https://www.them.us/story/nex-benedict-nonbinary-teen-oklahoma-died-attacked-at-school
So heartbreaking 💔
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@tyghebright
Holy shit! This is so fucked up!
Those responsible for the beating need to be put behind bars for many many years.
Yes.
But they were kids.
The real problem is the adults who created the environment and failed to intervene.
@tyghebright
Yes, the parents too. They all have blood on their hands.
@tyghebright The US red states have been whipped up into a frenzy on multiple fronts, fuelled with religious zeal (it carries among people who have no religious affiliation, but who give them power through their vote and money for other reasons).
The paranoia is resulting in untold real-world consequences, and the instigators are twisted enough to believe that this is winning.
There has to be a word for a thing that is so absurdly, bizarrely, grotesquely hypocritical. It is utterly horrific.