Oklahoma’s top education official
called out over Libs of TikTok
ties after non-binary student
beaten at school, dies later
Feb 20, 2024
On Feb. 7, Nex Benedict was
beaten by three older, female
peers at Owasso High School,
where Benedict was a sophomore.
A teacher broke up the
altercation, but school
authorities did not call an
ambulance for Benedict. They
did, however, go to the hospital
that day and were later released.
Benedict died after a second
trip to the hospital the next
day.
Many are positing that Benedict’s
death was the result of a hate
crime motivated, they say in
part, by the anti-trans rhetoric
Walters peddled as the head of
the state’s top official in
charge of education.
Walters was Oklahoma’s Secretary
of Education for three years
before his election as
Superintendent of Public
Instruction.
Last year, the Department
released a video about
transgender students in which
Walters said that the trans
movement was “an assault on
truth.”
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