The Dead Names: Dagny "Nex" Benedict

The Dead Names documents individuals killed as a result of trans ideology, either directly through medicalization, or indirectly due to lack of recognition of transition as the cry for help and indication of social emotional psychological instability that it so often, if not always, is.

Nex Benedict died of a drug overdose two weeks after her father was sent back to jail. Her father was convicted of raping her when she was 9 years old. Much like trans identifying kids are handed testosterone, she was put on antidepressants and sent back into a milieu school setting she clearly was not psychologically equipped to handle. Was her behavior affected by this antidepressant? Her overdose definitely was, according to the medical examiner.

Her death was held up as an example of transphobic violence, when the reality was that she is an example of the elevated risk of suicide trans identifying individuals acknowledge is a problem for their community. Rather than trans identification being recognized as a mental health red flag, especially in combination with other mental health diagnoses for which she received medication, she was affirmed as a they/them, and sent back to school without the intensive therapy and even inpatient care she clearly, in retrospect, needed.