The TRA movement doesn’t care about children, and they don’t care about this kid. She was a useful tool to validate their victim mentality, if only for a little while. They finally had their George Floyd! Here’s proof that trans violence is on the rise and we’re witnessing a trans genocide. Here’s proof we’re murdering people by refusing to play by their rules. Here’s proof that children will die if we force them to use bathrooms that align with their sex. Activists and social media faces couldn’t wait to jump on this narrative train, including the crypt keeper himself.
Dagny Ellis “Nex” Benedict, a sixteen-year-old girl who identified as non-binary, was involved in an altercation at school on February 7th. People like Jeffrey and others were quick to tell us she was bullied to death, even though we don’t have any evidence of long-term bullying outside of the mother’s testimony, and we don’t know why she was bullied.
Around one pm the next afternoon, Dagny’s mother called 911 because her daughter was experiencing a medical emergency. Paramedics attempted resuscitation, but she was pronounced dead at the hospital. Pundits and influencers tried to place the blame on Chaya Raicik from Libs of TikTok and on the bathroom bill signed in 2022 that requires public school students in Oklahoma to use the bathroom aligned with their sex.
Within a few days as new evidence began to pour in, it didn’t take long for that narrative train to derail. Owasso PD released both the body cam footage of Dagny in the hospital where she admits she started the fight and the 911 call (starts at 20:53) made by her mother, Sue.
February 22nd Owasso Police released a statement from the medical examiner stating her death did not result from trauma and they were awaiting the toxicology report. This means they couldn’t find a “physical” reason for death, so the “bullied to death” narrative should have died. On March 13th the medical examiner released the summary autopsy report and confirmed the manner and cause of death to be an overdose and suicide. On Wednesday, March 27th the full autopsy report was released to the public, and that’s when I became angry.
A day or so after the release of the autopsy summary, the Benedict family attorney released a response “to ensure other pertinent portions of the report are not overshadowed by the “classification” of Nex’s death.” This unreleased information confirmed three things:
1.) The injuries from the fight were minor and non-lethal.
2.) She had normal injuries consistent with CPR.
3.) She had a history of cutting.
The fight is irrelevant, but people like trans-identifying man Ari Drennen were desperate to hang on to the smallest piece of thread. He and others needed this to be trans violence, but it wasn’t. The fight happened, she got hurt, and she had normal scrapes and bruises, but it didn’t contribute to her death. Maybe it was the tip of the iceberg given she was suspended for two weeks following the fight, but she was already in trouble with the school because of vaping. There was so much wrong with this kid, and for reasons that are infuriating the mainstream media didn’t do their due diligence.
From the 911 call, we learned she was prescribed Prozac and Seroquel which her mother says were for anxiety and mood swings, but according to the autopsy, she had a history of “constipation, bipolar disorder, depression, anxiety, self-harm (cutting), chronic tobacco abuse, and chronic marijuana abuse,” and according to her obituary…she was a B.A.C.A. kid.
In March 2019, eleven-year-old Dagny reported to police that between May and August of 2017 when she was nine years old her father, James Hughes, raped her. He sodomized, molested, and forced her to touch him and he was arrested on July 31, 2019. Later that year he pled guilty to one count of 2nd Degree Sexual Assault and was sentenced to five years in prison and ten years suspended with 119 days credited as time served. He was released from prison in either late 2023 or early 2024 but was arrested again on January 25th, two weeks before her death, for failing to register as a sex offender.
This is where I get angry and struggle to put my thoughts into words. Erin Reed, another trans-identifying male, spent weeks, despite the evidence, blaming Chaya and Oklahoma officials for the death of this child but calls offense when Chaya makes a series of tweets about the truth. Dagny, as most people called her, was a survivor. She was mentally struggling, but she was a survivor and TRAs like Erin don’t want to talk about it. The truth about young girls and trans identities is inconvenient, and unfortunately for them, Dagny failed to be the good little mascot they were hoping she would be. Even in death, they’re trying to groom her for their own validation because if misgendering and not playing along were the cause of death, then they might have a platform worth standing on. They would rather ride the midnight lying train to hell than face the probable reality that her adoption of a trans identity was a trauma response.
More kids like Dagny are going to die, not because we won’t use the right pronouns, but because people like Erin insist on using the wrong ones. They need these children vulnerable and broken and their skeletons hidden. Dagny deserved better. She still deserves better.
Justice would be telling the truth. Justice would be holding people like Ari Drennen, Erin Reed, and Jeffrey Marsh accountable for using this child to push a broken agenda. Justice would be to get rid of affirmation-only therapy and start addressing the trauma that’s hidden behind these fake identities. Justice would be finding the names of the people who bullied her family and taking them to the woodshed.
Trying to prove a lie? That’s not justice. That’s pride.
This article mixed with reading Abigail Shrier new book makes me so mad. I spent 11 years teaching. I became much more socially conservative, because I saw in real time kids being destroyed by the culture whether it was them or their parents. This was so
Well written!
That last screenshot broke my heart. The online keyboard warriors are ruthless. And it’s hurts me to see parents raked over the coals for using the name they gave their child. I hope they are able to continue to grieve in peace.