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After Nex Benedict’s death, LGBTQ youth group saw 200% rise in crisis contacts from Oklahoma
NBC ^ | March 7, 2024 | Jo Yurcaba

Posted on 03/08/2024 7:53:22 AM PST by Salman

A national LGBTQ youth nonprofit group said crisis calls from Oklahoma more than tripled in the weeks after transgender student Nex Benedict died there on Feb. 8.

Lance Preston, founder of the Indianapolis-based Rainbow Youth Project, a suicide prevention and crisis intervention organization, said the group’s crisis hotline for LGBTQ young people received 1,097 contacts, including calls and online messages, from Oklahoma in February — an increase of more than 200% from its monthly average of 350 contacts.

The group received just under 1,000 of those contacts after Feb. 16, when Nex’s death began to receive widespread media attention. Of the 1,097 contacts, 87% reported incidents of bullying in Oklahoma schools.

“The high volume of contacts underscores the pressing need for intervention and support services — support services that are far too often unavailable, especially in rural areas of the country,” Preston said at a news conference Thursday hosted by the Human Rights Campaign, the country’s largest LGBTQ advocacy organization.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Oklahoma
KEYWORDS: homosexualagenda
Drama begets drama.
1 posted on 03/08/2024 7:53:22 AM PST by Salman
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To: Salman

These people are such delicate snowflakes.


2 posted on 03/08/2024 7:54:21 AM PST by fwdude (.When unarmed Americans are locked up for protesting a stolen election, you know it was stolen.)
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To: Salman

“LGBTQ2S++ suicide hotline how can I help?”

“I cut my ding dong off, then changed my mind. It’s not growing back and I want to kill myself!”


3 posted on 03/08/2024 7:58:19 AM PST by packagingguy
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To: Salman

So what did she die from. The bathroom fight or something else?


4 posted on 03/08/2024 7:58:45 AM PST by hanamizu ( )
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To: Salman
From a different article about this.

As the girls entered a women’s bathroom — which Benedict was legally required to use thanks to a 2022 Oklahoma law requiring public school students to use the restroom for the sex they were assigned at birth — Benedict threw water at them from a water bottle he was carrying.

In response, Benedict said the three girls started physically attacking him, grabbing his hair. After Benedict shoved one of the assailants into a towel dispenser, “they got my legs out from under me, got me on the ground, and started beating the shit out of me,” he told the officer.

So, this chick pretending to be a guy started the fight and got her ass kicked for it. What's the outrage for?

5 posted on 03/08/2024 7:59:14 AM PST by NohSpinZone (First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
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To: Salman
"...Rainbow Youth Project, a suicide prevention and crisis intervention organization..."

Isn't "suicide prevention" now passé since assisted suicide is considered a "human right" by the left?

Are these queer organizations against human rights?

6 posted on 03/08/2024 8:00:03 AM PST by fwdude (.When unarmed Americans are locked up for protesting a stolen election, you know it was stolen.)
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To: Salman

Matthew Shephard Hoax II.


7 posted on 03/08/2024 8:03:31 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: Salman

LGBTQ is a mental health crisis. A crisis which is fed, intentionally, by the left.


8 posted on 03/08/2024 8:04:47 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: Salman
A national LGBTQ youth nonprofit group said crisis calls from Oklahoma more than tripled in the weeks after transgender student Nex Benedict died there on Feb. 8.

Because of a false narrative pushed by the press. She started the fight by throwing water on someone. And, her autopsy stated no evidence of blunt force trauma. Eventually, the autopsy results (toxicology maybe) will expose the false narrative but by then it will be too late as most will believe the MSM's false "fairytale".

9 posted on 03/08/2024 8:04:49 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: hanamizu
So what did she die from. The bathroom fight or something else?

Something else. Posts 5 and 9.

10 posted on 03/08/2024 8:07:14 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: Salman

Is NBC still trying to politicize this story? They all but ignored Laken Riley, and want to push this? Has the official cause of death been given?


11 posted on 03/08/2024 8:09:46 AM PST by Nekman (The Dems are SocialistCommunistUtopianMarxists...SCUM for short...it FITS!)
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To: Salman

The reality is that people with gender dysphoria have a severe mental illness and commit suicide at very high rates, in excess of 40% over time.

These people need mental help, not unnecessary surgeries and hormone drugs to feed dollars into the medical-pharma-industrial complex.


12 posted on 03/08/2024 8:20:54 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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The reality is that people with gender dysphoria have a severe mental illness and commit suicide at very high rates, in excess of 40% over time.

They are also highly, aggressively violent in many instances.

How many transgender mass shootings have we seen over the past few years? I've lost count.

13 posted on 03/08/2024 9:12:57 AM PST by fwdude (.When unarmed Americans are locked up for protesting a stolen election, you know it was stolen.)
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To: Salman

From 2 to 6


14 posted on 03/08/2024 9:13:54 AM PST by Skywise
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To: Nekman

Biden has sent a federal investigative team to investigate the Oklahoma Department of Education. LGBTQ rights and armpit and toe licking as a fundraising activity.


15 posted on 03/08/2024 9:42:33 AM PST by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: DJ MacWoW

Something else. Posts 5 and 9.


I was aware that it was stated that she didn’t die from ‘blunt-force trauma’ and that videos taken of her after the fight showed her acting as if nothing were wrong. But people do sometimes die after seemingly minor head injuries. But apparently an actual cause of death hasn’t been announced.


16 posted on 03/08/2024 9:47:31 AM PST by hanamizu ( )
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To: hanamizu
Synopsis:
Got in a fight.
Claimed to have been the victim of a hate crime.
Maybe so, but not seriously injured.
Died of an overdose of something he was taking as part of the transition (while the hate crime angle was still being hyped).
17 posted on 03/08/2024 9:53:42 AM PST by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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Never accept their BS. Push back at every opportunity. Otherwise we lose.


18 posted on 03/08/2024 10:38:01 AM PST by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: Salman

Was he/she/it a girl pretending to be a boy or a boy pretending to be a girl?


19 posted on 03/08/2024 11:25:44 AM PST by SVTCobra03 (You can never have enough friends, horsepower or ammunition.)
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20 posted on 03/08/2024 11:34:34 AM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Roses are red, Violets are blue, I love being on the government watch list, along with all of you.)
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