Police in Oklahoma are investigating the death of a 16-year-old student who died a day after an altercation in a high school bathroom that may have been prompted by bullying over gender identity.
Neither police nor school officials have said what led to the fight. But the family of Nex Benedict says there had been harassment because the teen was nonbinary.
No cause of death has been released for Nex Benedict, an Owasso High School student in suburban Tulsa, Okla., who used they/them pronouns. Nex Benedict was able to walk out of the bathroom after the Feb. 7 fight but was taken