sharing this Washington Post article because it points out how the anti-LGBTQ+ bias/bigotry started at the top with the people who hold positions of power and promoted anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric and policies.
a reminder that harmful anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric with anti-LGBTQ+ people in positions of power leads to tremendous harm and possibly death.

may hearts open and sanity arise.
~j

⭕️♥️🙏🏼

Posted @withregram • @washingtonpost

Nex Benedict collapsed the day after an altercation in a girls’ bathroom at the public high school they attended, a school where relatives say the 10th-grader had been bullied for being nonbinary.

Owasso is a Tulsa suburb of about 40,000 in the northeast corner of Oklahoma where this year state legislators already have proposed more than 50 anti-LGBTQ+ laws — more than any other state, according to the ACLU.

The man who heads public education in Oklahoma is also a vocal critic of LGBTQ rights. Superintendent Ryan Walters appointed Chaya Raichik — the conservative activist behind Libs of TikTok, which has targeted LGBTQ-friendly teachers at Owasso schools — to a state library advisory board.

Owasso police said Tuesday that results of an autopsy are pending. Officials are also awaiting a toxicology report before deciding whether to refer the case to the Tulsa district attorney’s office for potential charges, according to Lt. Nick Boatman.

Read more from this story at the link in Washington Post IG bio.