Nex Benedict died February 8, 2024.
"Sarah Adams and Kendra Wilson Clements, the Choctaw, Two Spirit cofounders of Cousins, which provides support to queer and trans Indigenous youth in Oklahoma, watched the cratering of attention as winter turned to spring, then summer. “Over this past year, there [was] this big reaction, and then it fizzled,” Adams tells Teen Vogue. “I was talking to my [Two Spirit, nonbinary] kid yesterday about what has happened over the past year, and what that feels like, what it looks like, and they said something like, 'It's weird that the world kept turning. It's weird that things just kept going after that.' People just tend to forget.”
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As reported by Marisa Kabas of the Handbasket, the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children was instructed by the Trump Department of Justice that they would lose their funding if they did not remove LGBTQIA+-affirming language from their materials, and also required them to deadname trans youth in their reporting.
The State Department has removed everything but “LGB” from its LGBTQIA+ acronyms on its resource pages. In late January, as the Trump White House rebuilt the site wholesale, mentions of Benedict were scrubbed from the White House website, as well as mentions of Matthew Shepard, who was murdered in 1998 at age 21 in a homophobic attack."
— Lex McMenamin, Nex Benedict Has Been Gone a Year. What Have We Learned?: Nex Benedict’s death was confirmation that anti-trans policies and rhetoric have a body count. Is anyone listening? Teen Vogue, February 11, 2025
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Read: Oklahoma Trans Child Beaten to Death at School for Being Trans, James Finn, Prism & Pen, February 22, 2024
Read: Who Was Nex Benedict, the Trans Teen Taken Too Soon?: The reader, gamer, and cat parent to Zeus. Eleni Stephanides, Prism & Pen, February 28, 2024
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