When Sue Kerr heard that a teenager who had died after being beaten in a high school bathroom was nonbinary, she started a process that she’d done more than 300 times before: She investigated, wrote an “in memoriam” post for her blog Pittsburgh Lesbian Correspondents, shared the piece and waited for mainstream media to pick it up.
But that didn’t happen this time.
For several days, there was just silence. People read about 16-year-old Oklahoma student Nex Benedict’s death — Kerr estimates that her post had 100,000 views in the first 24 hours — and talked about Benedict on social media, but mainstream news outlets stayed quiet.
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