#trans visibility day 2021

[spookyclookykinz]

happy transgender day of visibility!

[eggoatt]

FUNSHINE BEAR IS A TRANS ICON !!

[givemedamage]

nervous about them grabbing the joint like that VS willing to risk it to touch his hand a little bit

[cauls-antique-pepperbox-pistol]

Millard is trans and only visible today. Happy trans day of visibility

[burnt-scone]

2021: March 31st becomes Officially Trans Visibility Day

2024, conservatives: But it's the very rare March Easter. :( Joe Biden hates Christians confirmed

Trans people:....huh

[xanichoi]

I made a comic of a scene from the new season of Squid Game that touched my heart... Living in Brazil, which has one of the highest rates of trans deaths worldwide, and seeing this series made in my parents' home, South Korea, an extremely conservative country, this scene really resonated with me. In 2021, South Korea's first trans soldier, Byun Hee-soo, was tragically found dead in her apartment. That's why the existence of Hyun-Ju's character and her story is so crucial for visibility and rights of the Korean trans community, who still face marginalization today. This particular scene, where Geum-Ja, an elderly woman, has this heartwarming conversation with Hyun-ju, moved me so much that I wanted to recreate it in my style. Here's hoping for positive changes in Korean society, where one day real trans actresses can appear in major shows like this without facing backlash 💜

오징어 게임 시즌2 한 장면을 만화로 그렸어요... 전 세계에서 트랜스젠더 사망률이 가장 높은 브라질에 살고 있는 제가, 제 부모님의 고향인 한국, 이 매우 보수적인 나라에서 만든 이 드라마를 보면서 이 장면이 제 마음에 깊이 와닿았습니다. 2021년, 한국 최초의 트랜스젠더 군인이었던 변희수 하사가 안타깝게도 자택에서 숨진 채 발견되었죠. 그래서 현주라는 캐릭터의 존재와 그녀의 이야기는, 아직도 소외되어 있는 한국의 트랜스젠더 커뮤니티의 가시성과 권리를 위해 매우 중요합니다. 특히 이 장면에서 나이 드신 금자 씨가 현주와 나누는 따뜻한 대화는 ��를 너무나 감동시켜서 제 스타일로 다시 그려보고 싶었어요. 앞으로 한국 사회에 긍정적인 변화가 일어나서, 언젠가는 실제 트랜스젠더 배우들이 이런 큰 작품에 출연해도 비난받지 않는 날이 오기를 바랍니다 💜

[project-sekai-facts]

I've seen many people stating that Airi is implied as transfem, and many saying it's merely a headcanon, but I haven't been able to find evidence to support either side as I have no idea of where that notion comes from. Do you know about any event/card stories or symbolism that could imply that she's transgender? Thanks in advance.

oooh this is a really interesting one for me actually! so straight off the bat, no airi is not canonically or implied trans. that said, a queer (in her case, trans specifically) reading of her story is totally valid, much like Toya's backstory for an in-game example, and for out of game examples stuff like Rin in Love Live! School Idol Project or Gwen in the Spider-Verse movies (these two support a trans reading, whilst Toya's story supports a more general queer reading).

I think the main cause of the reading comes from her fes story! While her childhood is first talked about in the first chapter of RE:START From Here!, it's very brief and the specific parts about her personality and presentation aren't much of the focus, aside from an incredibly short interaction between Airi and her mother where Airi thinks the idol on TV is cute and her mother tells her that there's nothing stopping her from being like that, then a similar interaction with her younger sister where she decides that she wants to be an idol.

What we learn from this is that Airi used to be a tomboy when she was younger, and was short tempered and aggressive, and often got into fights with boys (though in the interaction we are shown she does this to defend her little sister). She also discovered idols and decided she wanted to be one too, just as cute as the one on TV, which is the total opposite to how she was then. In terms of Airi's backstory serving as a trans allegory? I think you could get something out of this, though the allegory (intentional or not) is far more pronounced in her fes story. You could definitely view this flashback as her starting to realise she's a trans girl, and that she wants to be more girly. Especially when her sister says that Airi's just like the idol on TV, and she has a moment of realisation that she wants to be one too.

Now onto her fes story. First I'll just mention a little fandom thing. So back in 2021 when Airi's fes card was initially released, a fan translation (pictured) was posted to youtube that mistranslated her as being transgender. It was a error made by the translator where instead of saying how the boys she fought with called her a "too cute for a monster", she said they called her a "too cute for a boy". The translation was deleted a long time ago, but for some reason people still bring it up, even now. I think this is where a lot of misinterpretation over her being canonically trans comes from.

Now onto the actual fes story. In the first part of the story, Airi looks back on the interactions with her sister that we saw in Re:start, thinks that she'd love to see the look on her younger self's face if she could see herself now, which creates her fragment sekai. In the second part, after talking with her younger self for a bit, she calls little Airi a tomboy, and she's visibly uncomfortable with this. Present-day Airi then realises this past version of her must be from around the time she started to be bothered by how people viewed her as "rambunctious" or a tomboy. She also mentions that when she decided to become an idol she started ignoring boys teasing her about it, confirming that her tomboy personality and presentation was a source of mockery.

The most interesting part is that Airi says when she started wearing cute and girly clothing to school, she was mocked for it. Although the text explicitly states that for Airi, she was a GNC girl who was uncomfortable with her presentation and wanted to be more girly, this is literally something that has happened with Mizuki, who is all-but-stated canonically transfem. The rest of the story is Airi explaining what being an idol is like and her experiences to her younger self, who then proudly proclaims that she's going to become an idol.

As I said, the text explicitly states that she's a tomboyish girl before she decided she wanted to become an idol and wear cute clothes, which strongly suggests that she's cisgender (of course, she could be a GNC trans girl who came out when she was very young, but this is not canon). However, the fes story overall, and particularly the 3 lines of dialogue pictured above, strongly support a trans reading.

Airi was teased for wearing cute clothes, and while the text doesn't state it outright, you shouldn't have to be told that these were typically girly or feminine clothes, especially given the tshirt and dungarees that Airi wears on her child L2D model. As stated earlier, this exact same thing has happened with Mizuki, although the reactions from classmates and the girls themselves were slightly different on the account of Mizuki being canonically transgender. Airi is annoyed that her classmates think the cute clothes clash with her personality and make fun of her for it, but in Mizuki's case she questions if it's okay for her to wear such clothes because people think it's weird for her to be wearing it (the reason for it being weird is left unstated, but it's presumably because her classmates knew her as a boy at this point in time). Nonetheless, this mirrors the experiences of so many trans people in real life, who are mocked by the general public due to not fitting into the box of gender norms dictated by society.

Airi affirming that she's a girl is definitely the standout line here, though. It shows us how insecure little Airi was with her presentation, and how she wanted people to think of her as a proper, cute girl, instead of a "monster". So while Airi is not canonically trans, the text strongly supports her being read as such. It doesn't take a genius to work out how you could apply Airi growing up as a more masculine tomboy, then realising she wants to be a cute idol, then being teased for dressing in a traditionally feminine way is an allegory for a trans experience, intended or not.

Also absolutely not solid evidence of anything at all, but I often see people point out that Airi's trained The Strongest Idol Smile! 4* has a trans flag color palette, something we've seen in Mizuki cards before. However this is very likely unintentional and just done for artistic effect, the pink ribbons on the card are actually red on the costume (and you can tell in some parts of this artwork too). Still think it's a neat end to this post though.

[afeelgoodblog]

The Best News of Last Week - April 3, 2023

Kentucky Legalizes Medical Marijuana in Bipartisan Vote After Decade of Failed Attempts

The state of Kentucky has legalized the use of medical marijuana. The bill received final passage on Thursday. Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear signed it into law Friday morning after a decade of failed attempts in the state legislature.

The news makes Kentucky at least the 38th state in the U.S. to legalize medical marijuana.

Now Indiana is surrounded by weed states. The encirclement is complete 😂

2. The Maryland House of Delegates voted Saturday to approve the Trans Health Equity Act

The Maryland House of Delegates voted Saturday to approve the Trans Health Equity Act — a bill that just a year ago disappeared from the chamber’s agenda ahead of a floor vote.

The bill would require Maryland Medicaid, beginning on Jan. 1, 2024, to provide coverage for additional gender-affirming treatments, which are currently disallowed in the state’s plan but commonly covered by private insurance. The expanded treatments include hormone therapy, hair alteration, voice therapy, physical alterations to the body, and fertility preservation.

3. FDA approves over-the-counter Narcan. Here's what it means

The approved nasal spray is the best-known form of naloxone. It can reverse overdoses of opioids, including street drugs such as heroin and fentanyl and prescription versions including oxycodone.

Making naloxone available more widely is seen as a key strategy to control the nationwide overdose crisis. Effects begin within two minutes when given intravenously, and within five minutes when injected into a muscle. The medicine can also be administered by spraying it into a person's nose.

4. Boston expands tuition-free community college program to all residents

Boston has expanded its tuition-free community college program to include all city residents regardless of age, income or immigration status.

Starting this fall, any city resident will be eligible to pursue an associate’s degree or certificate at one of six partnering local institutions without paying to attend. The program also includes a $250 stipend for incidental expenses each semester for up to three years, and up to $2,500 of debt relief for students whose account balances are keeping them from re-enrolling.

5. First cheetah cubs born in India since extinction 70 years ago

India has welcomed the birth of four cheetah cubs - more than 70 years after the animals were declared officially extinct there.India's environment minister announced the good news, calling it a "momentous event".

The country has been trying to reintroduce the big cats for decades, and last year brought eight cheetahs over from Namibia as part of the plan. Another 12 cheetahs were brought to India from South Africa last month.

6. BBC education show in Afghanistan helps children banned from school

The BBC has launched a new education programme for children in Afghanistan who are banned from school.It is aimed at children aged 11 to 16, including girls whose secondary education has been stopped by the ruling Taliban.

The weekly programme is called Dars, which means lesson in Dari and Pashto, Afghanistan's official languages. It is hosted by BBC Afghan female journalists who were evacuated from Kabul during the 2021 Taliban takeover.

Each new weekly half-hour episode of Dars will air four times a day, Saturday to Friday, on the newly launched BBC News Afghanistan channel.

7. A Trans Creator Has Raised Over 1.5 Million for Trans Healthcare on TikTok Live

Transgender TikTokers are celebrating Trans Day of Visibility by raising over $1.5 million for gender-affirming care around the world.

Mercury Stardust — a DIY TikToker and trans advocate who calls herself the “Trans Handy Ma’am” — raised $120,000 last year in a livestream for the mutual aid nonprofit Point of Pride, which maintains funds for surgeries, hormone therapy, and free binders and gaffs. This year, Stardust and cohost Jory, a.k.a. AlluringSkull, set themselves a goal of raising $1 million in a planned 30-hour live stream…and then smashed that milestone less than six hours after starting the stream Thursday evening.

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[themaveriqueagenda]

it's trans+ history week, so i finally have an opportunity to make a detailed post about maverique history.

so here it is:

a detailed timeline of maverique history.

31/05/2014 — @queerascat coined maverique as "a non-binary gender characterized by an unconventional and unothodox internal sense of self and the interrelationship between that sense of self and society"

15/06/2014 — queerascat reworded the definition as: "a non-binary gender characterized by autonomy and inner conviction regarding a sense of gender which is unorthodox, unconventional and entirely independent of conventional concepts of gender". they created the maverique flag on the same day.

18/06/2014 — tearun suggested maver as an equivalent to man/woman and rique as an equivalent for boy/girl, the latter was never heard of again due to it sounding like "reek"

19/06/2014 — someone suggested mav as an equivalent to boy/girl, @whatdoesenbymean suggested Mv (pronounced "mav") as a title

21/06/2014 — after some confusion, queerascat reworded the definition one last time as "a gender characterized by autonomy and inner conviction regarding a sense of self that is entirely independent of male/masculinity, female/femininity or anything which derives from the two while still being neither without gender nor of a neutral gender"

22/06/2014 — the @maveriques blog was created

24/06/2014 — maveriques posted a CMYK analogy to explain maverique

28/06/2014 — maveriques posted a list of proposed maverique terms

29/06/2014 — someone suggested Mv (pronounced "miv") as a title

06/07/2014 — queerascat uploaded a video about their label change and the term maverique in their youtube channel

12/03/2015 — maveriques clearly defined maverique as not an umbrella term

11/10/2015 — queerascat posted a gender tag video from a maverique perspective on their youtube channel

13/10/2015 — someone suggested maveriquine as an equivalent for masculine/feminine

~2015/16 — there was discourse on aliagender and aporagender being racist, and that maverique was a good term to use instead because it was coined by a Black person, queerascat pushed back against this

31/07/2016 — maverine was suggested as an equivalent to masculine/feminine

18/11/2016 — @moonstruck-melts suggested the earth and sun symbols for maverique, and @feekins suggested pluto as a symbol

03/02/2017 — @the-christian-closet suggested the comet symbol for maverique, mistaking it for an alternative sun symbol

05/02/2017 — maveriques posted a poll asking how people feel about the sun as a maverique symbol

12/02/2017 — maveriques posted the results, with most maveriques liking it but having reservations

24/02/2017 — courage-archive-deactivated2018 / sneer posted the symbol with the two extending arms

17/07/2017 — veriquinity was suggested as an equivalent to masculine/feminine

~2021: the maverique subreddit was created

06/01/2022 — renée yoxon went on the fifty shades of gender podcast to talk about being maverique, trans, nonbinary and genderqueer

06/2022 — reddit user ChaoticStrange suggested a maverique visibility day on 31/05 and others agreed

16/01/2023 — renée yoxon briefly spoke about being maverique on the gender reveal podcast

18/06/2023 — @themaveriqueagenda on tumblr was born

20/08/2023 — themaveriqueagenda on instagram was born

[payjayy]

the Huang twins are blatantly transphobic. Let's be real.

Trans Day Of Visibility 2021, remember that? The blatant queerbaiting tweet followed by that "clips and graphics may not be canon"? We moved away from that WAYYYYY too quickly.

TPOT 2, remember that? The scene written by Satomi with Gaty and Two that everyone interpreted as a trans metaphor? Satomi and Pokey got fired some weeks later for "creative differences".

"But they have trans people in the crew!!!!!!" "But they have nonbinary characters!!!!!" Virtue Signaling. Google it. Also don't act like the characters are good trans rep. Because they're not. It's TRASH.

Y'all need to learn that transphobia can be much more subtle than you can ever imagine.

And if you call me "operation huangfall" then you're a whole new kinda stupid because I am allowed to criticize this shitty ass show with that shitty ass crew

Hey, trans person here! What

[theconstitutionisgayculture]

He put out the same proclamation in 2021 and 2022. Can't find any information if he did it in 2023 though. This isn't a new thing that just happened because Easter.

You're correct, actually. He even used the same exact "I hereby proclaim" language. So, yep, I was wrong about this one. I still think it's a slight to do this on Easter regardless of precedent, but the precedent does exist and I didn't think it did.

Regardless, trans visibility is stupid, virtue signaling nonsense. Trans people are ridiculously visible. They're the new (trans)trendy thing. Might as well have a Taylor Swift Visibility day, XD

[toc-the-elder]

I think it's funny how I contextualise my big coming out journey. Like it's always seen through the lens of what I was doing at the time, and not through that of the strength and emotion that led up to it. There wasn't one big moment, but many little ones that add up to a journey.

I still remember the moment I realised what I was. I saw a new PhilosophyTube video was up. Something to watch while I shaved my legs while nobody was home. The video has since taken on a more obvious title, but at the time it was something innocuous and unrevealing. And it was Abigail coming out as trans. And I sat and I cried in the bathroom of my mother's house because I couldn't believe it had taken so long for me to realise *why* I was shaving my legs while nobody was home.

I can recall where I was when I got myself referred to a gender clinic. I was stood by a river on a grey November afternoon in a city I had been to once a decade prior. And I very clinically explained that I was "experiencing symptoms of what I believe to be gender dysphoria" to a GP over the phone while I had a smoke for moral support. There were lots of reeds, and some powerlines strung overhead.

I remember when my best friend found out. I had been in a bad place and was in and out of hospital and he (somehow) remembered my Reddit handle and tracked me down to see when I was last active only to see me pretty openly identifying as female and trans. He messaged me to say he saw it, but he was just worried about me.

I remember when I had to tell my ex about it. We had both bought tickets for Shadow of Intent (my absolute favs) on their Melancholy tour cycle, but then the plague happened and they delayed for like three years, and by the time they came back around, they were on the tour cycle for a whole new album. She and I hadn't spoken since we had broken up in 2021 (unknown to her, I had been experiencing a dysphoria-fuelled identity crisis which destroyed our relationship) and she wanted to know if I was still going and I had to work out how to tell her that I was a whole different person now.

I remember being sat on the homeless hostel bedroom floor, newly homeless, and a good way into my transition, and tearfully hanging up on my mum after refusing to explain why I couldn't come home. I hadn't seen her in nearly a year, and didn't know how she would react to the visible changes to my body, and I knew I couldn't go back in the closet. So I called my older brother and cried while I told him. He was always going to be the first to know, as he had always been firmly on the side of trans rights. He offered to pick me up the next day and take me home to tell mum, just in case she banished me or something. I remember the first time he saw me as I am now, and didn't say anything. It was just another day.

I remember telling my mum in the kitchen the next evening, after hurriedly wiping off all my make up and scraping off my nail polish in my brother's car as I thought it would be a bit much for her to handle. We even stopped so I could put on a pair of guy pants I had kept for such an occasion. When I told her, I remember dancing around it as I did, impressing upon her the medical necessity of a certain process I had started. And when I told her, she shrugged and said "Good. What do you want for dinner?"

I remember telling my younger brother when he got home from his holiday. We had wandered to the woods nearby for a smoke on a lovely summer's day and when I told him I remember being very blunt about it. His response was mostly, "Huh. Neat. That's got to open up a whole bunch of questions for you. Like how does that affect your sexuality? You gonna get the op?" He didn't make a big deal about it, he just defaulted to his inner biologist brain. He was genuinely curious, rather than being weird about it.

It just seems like in retrospect, the ordeal of telling everyone seems secondary to the actual things I was doing when it happened. It's so strange how it all just recedes to a series of rather unremarkable still images in my mind. I've got a ways to go yet, but I'm getting there.

[pico-digital-studios]

Master Post

Sonic: Into, Across and Beyond! - Master Post

This is used to link to any parts of Sonic: Into, Across and Beyond! that are present thus far.

WARNING!: There are a lot of spoilers ahead for plotlines related to Into the Spider-Verse, No Way Home and Across the Spider-Verse. As Beyond has yet to be released, that won't be covered here for the time being.

This fanfic is NOT to be labelled solely as an "EXE" project, considering it's meant to be a love letter to the Sonic franchise as a whole, fan works AND official stuff. Even with the presence of "EXE"-based characters, such antagonists are few and far between unless mentioned as part of backstories, and are not a major core part of the fanfic's structure.

RATED T BY THE ESRB

Recursive work permissions:

You're welcome to make your own part with a character in this project.

Fanart of any of the content thus far is allowed, but NO NSFW stuff at all.

As Spider-Man: Spider-Verse is a copyrighted property, and I don't want to take positive attention away from the movies, video game adaptations of IAB! are prohibited.

I'm not the first person to come up with a Sonic-themed Spider-Verse, and I know I won't be the last. Please don't cite me as that starting point.

QNA / Ask Me Anything!

Custom Human sprites made for IAB!

OMT!Sonic's Intro

Story points (all scripting posts are here for your viewing pleasure)

Character chart

Story List

Universal Reset Changes

Posters:

One More Hero

THE ORIGINAL

Character bios

Key locations:

Blur HQ (Full Map) | MP-2021 South Island | FNF-NEW-2023 (with lore) | Universe Chart

Official canons/headcanons in IAB!:

The Awakening of Prism (made by @son1c) | Super Forms | The Shared Universe | Time Skips | Alternate Universe Nature | Power Sets | Yourself's Adoption | Sonic is NOT quick to forgive | Maria doesn't HAVE to die in all worlds | LGBTQ+ Chao | Movie Sonic's Abandonment Issues | UFO Catcher Bags | Prismatic Sonic | An Embarrassing BF | Water Sonic Design | Spider-Rose | Metal Virus Trauma | Quill Society Membership Rules | Trip's Family, Friends and Neighbours (don't worry, they're all alright, even at the present)

The SEGANet (+ trivia and what could have been)

Friday Night Funkin' Covers

Rivals' Madness (Song List)

Tua Vera Fata (CATaclysm)

Side Jams (crossovers with @robovoidfrog's Funkinverse)

Xs and Os (Smoke & Mirrors)

Special greetings:

Valentine's | Easter/Trans Visibility Day | April Fools' Day | Pride/LGBTQIA+ | Halloween (Tails's Message) | Christmas (Journal Entry)

Milestone Celebrations:

Internship Graduation | Sonic's 33rd Anniversary | IAB! 1st Anniversary

Other Stuff:

Omniverse (Ben 10 Spider-Verse) | The Q&A Begins | Hypothetical VAs | Game Concepts (UNOFFICIAL)

Credits

[dndoggos]

DnDoggos Pawsed - #38 “TDOV”

Today is Trans Day of Visibility. I’ve thought a lot about what I would say today, and I still don’t really know. I could talk about how getting a gender affirming haircut in March 2020 slingshotted me into a whole new life. Or how having top surgery in July 2021 taught me to love myself for the first time. Or that since transitioning I have found a deep and meaningful love for all the people in my life, and I see them for who they are, and cherish that so dearly.

I could also talk about how anti-trans laws in America are targeting such a small and vulnerable population of people. And that my very existence is being threatened every single day.

But all I really want to say right now, in this moment, is choose love.

Please.

When faced with choices, please, please choose love. Choose kindness.

And if you have trans people in your life, please tell them you love them.

[hxneyfarm]

The picture on the left was taken in 2021, back when my egg was just beginning to crack and I couldn't bring myself to say the words out loud. For the next year and a half I would gradually try on different identities and pronouns, and I would tell myself that it was too late to transition, that it would be selfish of me to even try. I would privately struggle with the worst imposter syndrome of my life and I would cry myself to sleep more often than not.

The picture on the right was taken... today. Just a few minutes before I started making this post. I'm six and a half months on low dose T. My transition has been slow and gradual, but every time I notice my voice has gotten a little deeper or see a newer, longer hair on my chest belly or chin I am lightheaded and giddy. I'm slowly evolving into my final form.

HAPPY TRANS DAY OF VISIBILITY

[shoujoboy-restart]

16-year-old non-binary student Nex Benedict was beaten to death at Owasso High School in Oklahoma.

Self-described stochastic terrorist and January 6th Capitol rioter Chaya Raichik, owner of the social media account Libs of TikTok, has become infamous for her viral harassment and moral panic campaigns targeting minorities— with an emphasis on vilifying LGBTQ+ existence. Since 2021, Raichik’s posts targeting advocates for and members of the LGBTQ+ community have been followed with a deluge of violent death threats (including lynching threats against the Los Angeles Unified School District). Nowhere has Raichik’s influence been more visible than Oklahoma, where her anti-LGBTQ+ exploits earned her an official position on the Oklahoma Department of Education’s Library Media Advisory Committee by controversial far-right Superintendent Ryan Walters. Under Walters’ leadership, Oklahoma has been aggressively working to ban books and education on LGBTQ+ issues in schools across the state, with Oklahoma’s Attorney General Gentner Drummond stating that proposed rules to ban LGBTQ+ books and content were “unconstitutional and cannot be enforced.” It’s been confirmed that Raichik’s posts have fueled multiple bomb threats against schools specifically in Oklahoma. Officials from Oklahoma told NBC News that they believe Chaya Raichik’s anti-LGBTQ+ culture warring “sparked threats in their localities with her posts on social media that digitally heckle people such as drag performers, LGBTQ teachers and doctors who treat transgender patients.”   One of these instances was at the Owasso School District (just outside of Tulsa, Oklahoma). In 2022, Chaya Raichik targeted an Owasso teacher for speaking out in support of LGBTQ+ students who lacked acceptance from their parents. Raichik’s post was shared thousands of times on social media and resulted in the teacher getting condemned and harassed until they resigned. The posts Raichik made about the teacher were later deleted, but have been archived. It’s unclear what prompted the deletion of the posts by Raichik. We know Raichik’s Libs of TikTok posts have contributed to a culture of intolerance against LGBTQ+ youth in schools, and now this hate may be manifesting beyond mere threats. This month, a non-binary 16-year-old student at Owasso High School was brutally murdered in the girl’s restroom. According to local news outlets and family, Nex Benedict was beaten by three older female students. The mother of Benedict’s best friend told KJRH News that "one of the girls was pretty much repeatedly beating [Benedict’s] head across the floor.” Reports say Benedict was unable to take themselves to the nurse’s office after a teacher finally intervened in the brutal assault. For reasons that remain unclear, Owasso High School refused to call an ambulance for 16-year-old Nex Benedict, who died from their injuries in the hospital the next day. A motive for this killing has not been shared by law enforcement, but we know that schools in Oklahoma have been specifically pushing violent eliminationist rhetoric against transgender and non-binary youth— a fact exemplified by the state’s hiring of Chaya Raichik following her incitements of terror against the state’s schools over LGBTQ+ rights.  “This is the inevitable result of the anti trans moral panic,” said civil rights attorney Alejandra Caraballo, who shared an article about Benedict’s death published by the Pittsburgh Lesbian Correspondents Blog. “This is horrifying, and comes as lawmakers are increasingly spreading fear over trans people in bathrooms,” wrote LGBTQ+ journalist and advocate Erin Reed regarding this murder.