I really dislike headlines like this.
They insinuate that her life is a greater loss than some kid who was a good person but happened to be a C student and did not aspire to the USMC.
If someone had run over me at that age, the headline might have read, “he was a nice guy, but he had no ambitions and would just end up being a salesman. Tut tut”
It is the tragic loss of a young life that cannot be fulfilled. Isn’t that enough? Isn’t that what matters?
No, they wold've done what they did with her and found something positive to say even if was simply, "Teen who loved to play video games and aspired to be marijuana expert killed by drunken driver."
The headline implies that she was transgender.
And the rest of your post holds.
Even if she was, why would her death be more tragic than a straight girlie girl who wanted to be the next Miss America?