BUMP
Turned out it actually was suicide:
https://people.com/nex-benedict-caus...ullied-8608937
Social media libs have egg on their face, after insisting this was a targeted murder or brutal beating of a trans teen.
Some more information has since come out about this situation:
- The girls who fought with Nex were actually freshmen, thus were younger than her, not older.
- Nex did not know these girls. While in the bathroom, she perceived that they were laughing at her, so she threw water on them, thus starting the altercation.
So it looks like these girls were not habitual bullies, and they weren't at fault for any of this.
Nex did complain about routine bullying at the school, and parents at the school have complained that in general school officials have ignored or poorly handled past bullying complaints. I actually believe all of that.
Here's a little secret about school bullying in modern times:
The left wants you to believe that they're the ones actively fighting bullies, whereas the cold, callous right just wants kids to harden up and deal with it.
But that's not what's actually happening. "Restorative justice" is an idiotic, permissive left wing methodology, dealing with crime and punishment. However, it has
made it into many school districts in recent years. Restorative justice in schools eschews punishment in favor of making kids understand why they misbehaved.
As you can imagine, this approach completely fails in a school setting. This is because kids lack maturity, and they simply equate lack of punishment with the ability to get away with more. If you know that beating up a kid you hate will get you suspended, you might think twice about it. If you know that you'll simply be brought into the office to talk about your feelings, you probably won't hesitate to beat up that kid.
Modern public schools taking the restorative justice approach like to talk tough about "zero tolerance bullying policies", but it's all bullshit. Their restorative justice shit is the opposite of zero tolerance, and the kids learn this quickly.
Of course, as with many left wing ideologies, there ends up with conflict and hypocrisy. Lefty school administrators want a restorative justice system of discipline, but at the same time, they want LGTBQ students protected. The problem is that you can't have both at the same time. The same permissive restorative justice system which gives endless chances to bad kids with no punishment also enables no-consequence bullying against "different" kids -- including those who are LGBTQ.
I have no idea if this particular school has restorative justice policies. But if they do, it's very believable that Nex's parents complained about her being bullied, and nothing was done. Perhaps she felt helpless to stop it, and committed suicide after that last fight. If that's the case, school administrators should be blamed, and the school's policies regarding handling bullying complaints should be examined.