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Erin Reed Profile picture
@ErinInTheMorn
Feb 21 • 12 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
1. Last month, I reported that Chaya Raichik of Libs of TikTok was appointed by Ryan Walters to "make schools safer" in Oklahoma.

One month later, a trans teen is dead after a year of transphobic bullying.

Their name was Nex. Image
2. Nex was a genderfluid trans teenager who suffered horrific bullying over their trans identity and now is dead after being beaten in a restroom.

Libs of TikTok and Ryan Walters said they'd make students safe.

Which students?

Read my article here:

erininthemorning.com/p/chaya-raichi…
3. Just one month ago, I wrote on how State Superintendent Ryan Walters, who himself has been viciously anti-trans appointed Libs of TikTok as part of a plan to "make schools safer."

Read that letter here:

4. Libs of TikTok/Chaya Raichik has famously often had violent threats and bomb threats follow her posts.

She posed proudly with a paper pointing it out.

How could this have gone any differently? Image
5. One of the very first teachers targeted by Libs of TikTok was Nex's favorite teacher in 2022.

Look at where we are now.

6. Meanwhile, the Oklahoma Department of Education, under Ryan Walters, put out a video calling trans people unsafe in bathrooms and trans bathroom access "an assault on truth."

7. How could this have gone any differently? When language like this is used, what happens next?

Legislators in Oklahoma have done the same. Senator Jett compared the parents of trans kids to those who kill their kids.

8. Nex will be buried, we have learned today, under their name. Their right name. The same name that legislators, hate influencers, and the Superintendent of Oklahoma tried to erase.

independent.co.uk/news/world/ame…
9. 25 years ago, another LGBTQ+ student was killed. He also succumbed to a head injury 6 days later. That student was Matthew Shepherd, and his death changed society... though it took time.
10. How many more trans people have to die for their deaths to do the same? How many more young people have to die? How many more Eden Knights? How many more Brianna Gheys? How many more Ariyanna Mitchells?
11. You can find the family's gofundme here.

gofundme.com/f/dagny-benedi…
12. Lastly, I am a transgender journalist writing about these stories every day.

And days like today are the hardest.

But I will never stop.

You can subscribe to get my articles first at .erininthemorning.com/subscribe

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Erin Reed Profile picture
Feb 22
1. Police officers in Oklahoma are now backtracking after claiming trans student Nex Benedict's death "was not caused by trauma," and have filed search warrants suspecting "foul play."

Meanwhile, LGBTQ+ leaders are calling for the DOJ to step in.

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2. Recent statements by the Owasso police department have raised serious questions about their ability to investigate Nex's death. Allegations of cover-ups, a long history of anti-LGBTQ+ sentiment in the school system have emerged.

Read my article here:

erininthemorning.com/p/lgbtq-leader…
3. Nex Benedict was a transgender gender fluid teenager in Oklahoma. They were reportedly jumped in a bathroom and beaten, leaving them with a head injury. Reportedly, the school didn't call an ambulance and instead, their mother took them to the hospital. They died the next day.
Read 11 tweets
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Feb 22
1. The House Freedom Caucus just released a letter threatening to shut down the government over policy riders that include anti-trans national bans.

Of the riders, Gender affirming care and sports bans are a high priority.

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2. The latest threat is the clearest message that policy riders targeting trans people are one of the sticking points in the fight to keep the government open.

Axios reports that a shutdown is now likely.

Read my full article here:

erininthemorning.com/p/republicans-…
3. The letter itself lists out several policies that include "defunding gender transition surgeries or gender affirming care," DEI bans, Planned Parenthood funding bans, and sports bans.

These policies could disrupt trans care nationwide. Image
Read 9 tweets
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Feb 9
1. Protests unfolded at several Florida DMVs today as protestors staged die-ins over a new policy that would criminalize trans Floridians who use their gender markers on drivers licenses.

Over 8 LGBQT+ orgs took part.

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2. Orlando, Tampa, Miami, and Gainesville were among the places seeing demonstrations. Protestors laid on the ground, often draped in trans pride flags, with tombstones about the harmful effects of the anti-trans policy.

Read my article here:

erininthemorning.com/p/protestors-s…
3. Florida is the first state to criminalize changing the gender on one's drivers license for transgender people. This comes after a recent policy by the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles which stated trans people could be guilty of criminal fraud. Image
Read 11 tweets
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Feb 8
1. Recently, Journalist Evan Urquhart and I wrote articles correcting misinformation in Pamela Paul's NYT article targeting trans care. Addressing us, Paul dismissed our work as "activism."

We respond here in a piece the NYT declined to publish.

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2. Paul, responding, weaves a tale where every person opposing misinformation in her piece is an "activist," and the anti-trans organizations that support her are "non-partisan and neutral."

That can't be farther from the truth.

Read our article here:

erininthemorning.com/p/readers-dese…
3. Paul backpedals after reading our criticism, titling her new piece "The Courage To Admit You Don't Know."

This is despite, in her original piece, devoting 4,500 words that painted a picture of high detransition rates, citing studies that she misread and misunderstood. Image
Read 13 tweets
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Feb 8
1. Soon, in a quest to legalize discrimination against transgender people, Iowa will meet to vote on a bill that redefines the word "equal."

For trans people, "Equal" will no longer mean "same" or "identical."

Read my latest piece in The Guardian. Image
2. The bill would do many other things... it would require trans people to have special markers on birth certificates, which have been compared to pink triangles used in the past. It also explicitly brings back "separate but equal."

Read the piece here:

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
3. The bill, which was written by the Governor's office and sponsored by Representative Hora, redefines the word equal.

When asked about the new definition and to define what equal means, Rep Hora could no longer even do it.

See the video:
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Feb 7
1. The US Transgender Survey is out, and in it, we find that 90,000 people answered, the vast majority saying they were satisfied.

The largest Littman study of detransitioners could only recruit 100 responses, despite similar sample methods.

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2. The survey, released overnight, shows huge satisfaction rates for transgender people that go even higher when they start gender affirming care - a finding supported by the body of research into trans care to this point.

Read my full article here:

erininthemorning.com/p/over-90000-s…
3. The study reports that of those who transition, only 3% report being less satisfied than before they started their transition. This contradicts narratives of regret pushed by the New York Times writer Pamela Paul this weekend. Image
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