#morgan moore

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Morgan Moore

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This is a significant tone-shift for our blog, but I believe it is a necessary post to make.

Today marks the three year anniversary of the death of Morgan Moore, a teenage disabled black trans boy from Maryland, due to criminal neglect from his parents.

He died at age 17 — far too young for anyone, much more when it comes to cases like these when life is cut short due to abuse and incompetence. The people who knew him remember him as a kind and talented soul, and he is missed by many.

May his memory be a blessing to us all.

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Morgan Holly Moore

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MORGAN MOORE

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Morgan Moore

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🎥 The Girl with the Red Beret AKA La fille au béret rouge, a short film by Janet Perlman

🎶 Complainte Pour Ste. Catherine (Kate and Anna McGarrigle cover) by Judith Gruber-Stitzer with Lily Lanken and Martha Wainwright

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nex benedict was 16 years old.

when i was 16, i dressed the same, wore my hair similarly. i wasn’t out as non-binary then, but i had already known at that point that i was different from my peers, and that felt isolating.

when i was 14 years old, my family started to joke that i would not make it to 16. i think it was because i was depressed or wasn’t as good at school as my older sister, but regardless they would joke about it.

i feel sick thinking about how on my 17th birthday, my mom celebrated the fact that i had made it past 16 officially. i got to move out soon after that, and left behind my bigoted town.

nex, as far as i have seen, had a loving family. but they don’t get to make it to 17. they don’t get to keep their supportive and loving family, or maybe the friends that accepted them and made him feel seen. nex doesn’t get to experience trans joy as an adult, or explore their gender more fully, or grow up anymore.

that was stolen from him. and now the government and local officials make monstrous accusations towards him, and try to tell the world something different than what it was: nex was murdered by two girls because this is exactly what the state had expected/hoped would happen. making gendered bathroom bans leads to isolated instances of violence where murderers can easily get away with things, especially when the states that they happen in have harmful views.

nex benedict deserved so much more, morgan moore deserved more, and every trans child in the world deserved their right to live and be happy and it was ripped away from them.

so to any straight ally reading this: it takes no effort to protect trans lives. it means spreading awareness, standing up to people, correcting strangers, friends, family; educating the existing members of communities with knowledge that will support their youth’s generations. it means listening to trans folks, queer folks, and especially queer/trans POCs because it’s them that are being targeted the most, so it’s them that should dictate.

be kind, sharp, and loyal to your trans loved ones, strangers, etc., because if you don’t step up when they are alive then you’ll be sorry when they’re dead.