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Nex Benedict Was Killed By a Republican Culture War. We Cannot Stand for It.
Nex Benedict will never see their seventeenth birthday.
The beautiful, healthy, vibrant nonbinary teenager died at the hands of peers who bullied them incessantly and who violently beat them in their school bathroom, simply because they existed.
Their murder is heartbreaking and infuriating—and unsurprising.
This is the rotten, putrid fruit of MAGA America and all it stands for and aspires to.
Deadly violence targeting the LGBTQ community and those who support them is not a random aberration, it is the logical progression.
When you continually label queer people as predators,when you…
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