{"id":2228883,"date":"2024-04-24T08:02:01","date_gmt":"2024-04-24T12:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lgbt-activists-and-accomplice-media-exploit-teen-deaths-for-political-points\/"},"modified":"2024-04-24T08:06:05","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T12:06:05","slug":"lgbt-activists-and-accomplice-media-exploit-teen-deaths-for-political-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lgbt-activists-and-accomplice-media-exploit-teen-deaths-for-political-points\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Teen Tragedies for Political Gain: How LGBT Advocates and Media Collaborate"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flgbt-activists-and-accomplice-media-exploit-teen-deaths-for-political-points%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2228883&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The tragic death of River Nevaeh Goddard, a nonbinary teenager,\u2063 was exploited for political\u200c agendas by GLAAD. Despite the actual domestic abuse circumstances leading to\u2062 her demise, GLAAD emphasized anti-LGBTQ rhetoric and\u200c legislation. Similar to past cases, this manipulation for political gains detracts from the real issues of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-to-show-lockdowns-are-killing-more-people-than-the-virus\/\" title=\"How To Show Lockdowns Are Killing More People Than The Virus\">domestic violence<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-perfect-storm-father-blames-covid-19-isolation-for-12-year-old-sons-suicide\/\" title=\"\u2018A Perfect Storm\u2019: Father Blames COVID-19 Isolation For 12-Year-Old Son\u2019s Suicide\">mental health challenges<\/a>. GLAAD politicized\u2062 the tragic death of \u200cRiver Nevaeh \u2064Goddard, a \u2064nonbinary teenager, diverting attention from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/experts-torn-over-supreme-court-direction-in-next-second-amendment-case\/\" title=\"Experts divided on Supreme Court's stance in upcoming Second Amendment case.\">domestic \u2064abuse<\/a> that led to her demise. By focusing on anti-LGBTQ rhetoric and \u200clegislation, GLAAD&#8217;s actions undermined the critical issues\u200d of domestic violence and\u200d mental health\u200d struggles.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-content\">\n<p>In yet another attempt to exploit and politicize the death of an LGBT teenager, GLAAD President Sarah Kate Ellis recently <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sarahkateellis\/status\/1782419835973951985\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">claimed on Twitter\/X<\/a> that the reported murder of 17-year-old River Nevaeh Goddard was directly connected to anti-LGBT \u201crhetoric\u201d and Republican legislation. <\/p>\n<p>She insisted, \u201cToo often, young people, and LGBTQ youth in particular, are failed by the adults and systems entrusted to protect them, and do not feel they have anywhere to turn in times of crisis. Our leaders and our communities must do better.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2-long d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-1555708779\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1379703300879-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-60b48e0a0f26bac3c72d1e9dccb8f643 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-60b48e0a0f26bac3c72d1e9dccb8f643\"><\/div>\n<p>She went on to demand, \u201cPoliticians must stop dangerous anti-LGBTQ rhetoric and legislation that fans the flames of hate and violence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The thing is, Goddard wasn\u2019t killed due to bullying or alleged anti-LGBT legislation in schools or even in a hate crime. She was allegedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advocate.com\/crime\/nonbinary-river-goddard-nevaeh-killed#rebelltitem1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">murdered by her 20-year-old boyfriend<\/a> who reportedly stabbed her repeatedly with a sword over accusations she was cheating on him.<\/p>\n<p>Shane Curry, 20, of Stow, Massachusetts, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boston25news.com\/news\/local\/i-have-knife-her-stow-man-held-without-bail-connection-with-his-teenage-girlfriends-death\/FEQNUKV2TBG4NGFJ4MKDUKNQ2M\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">has been charged<\/a> with assault and battery on a family or household member. On April 5, 2024, police arrived at the couple\u2019s home to do a well-being check. Curry\u2019s mother called the police after not being able to get ahold of her son for two days. Curry attempted to block the police from entering for two hours before they finally entered and found the victim dead inside their room.<\/p>\n<p>The couple reportedly had an argument in which Curry accused her of cheating on him and confronted her about her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-president-trump-gives-pardons-to-73-individuals-and-commutes-another-70-sentences-steve-bannon-is-included\/\" title=\"BREAKING: President Trump Gives Pardons to 73 Individuals and Commutes Another 70 Sentences \u2013 Steve Bannon Is Included\">drug addiction<\/a>. He told police he stabbed her several times with a sword. He told police, \u201cThe bruises aren\u2019t working \u2026 hitting her that\u2019s not working, so ok, I have to knife her, so I do.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-4de418c63b947a731cc930b7e87bf05b fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-6\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-4de418c63b947a731cc930b7e87bf05b\"><\/div>\n<p>Curry has a history of domestic abuse, including assaulting his mother in 2023. Goddard\u2019s grandfather, Michael Simmons, <a href=\"https:\/\/turnto10.com\/news\/local\/burrillville-teen-found-dead-in-massachusetts-southern-new-england-rhode-island-stow-lowe-dcyf-april-9-2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">stated<\/a> he had previously spoken with Curry and that the boyfriend promised to \u201ctake care of her.\u201d Goddard was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/crime\/i-want-you-to-suffer-in-jail-victim-s-family-speaks-out-on-daughter-s-death-in-stow\/ar-BB1lu9xZ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">born in prison<\/a> and raised by her grandfather but was removed due to an abusive environment. She was placed in foster care with a family until she ran away when the state requested she receive behavioral treatment. Her foster family believed she was missing for the last two years.<\/p>\n<p>GLAAD <a href=\"https:\/\/glaad.org\/releases\/glaad-responds-to-the-death-of-river-nevaeh-goddard-calls-on-media-to-accurately-and-fully-tell-goddards-story\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a> she identified as nonbinary and pansexual and used \u201cthey\/them,\u201d pronouns. She also went by River and her birth name Nevaeh. Despite this being an obvious case of domestic abuse involving drug addiction, GLAAD urged \u201cmedia reporting on Goddard\u2019s life and death to respect Goddard\u2019s identity and explore how the growing climate of anti-LGBTQ animus, legislation, and attacks factors into Goddard not receiving adequate support in the years leading up to their death.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They plan to turn her death into another propaganda tool, purely for politics. As was true with the recent viral <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chadfelixg\/status\/1761783228401107212\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">death of Dagny (Nex) Benedict<\/a>, there is no evidence whatsoever that alleged anti-LGBT legislation or rhetoric or even bullying had anything to do with the case. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advocate.com\/crime\/nonbinary-river-goddard-nevaeh-killed#rebelltitem1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Advocate<\/a>, an LGBT site, included in the story, \u201cGoddard\u2019s death comes just months after the death of Indigenous transgender high school student Nex Benedict, who died by suicide after being physically assaulted by their peers in a bathroom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As is now known about <a href=\"https:\/\/redstate.com\/chad-felix-greene\/2024\/03\/27\/nex-benedict-n2172000#google_vignette\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Benedict\u2019s tragic story<\/a>, the young woman was suffering from severe mental illness, was taking psychiatric medications, and overdosed in her home a little over a week after her father, who raped her as a small child, was re-arrested for violating his sex offender requirements. Video evidence of Benedict herself discussing the fight she instigated did not provide any indication she was targeted based on her various and changing LGBT identities. On the contrary, she reportedly assaulted three younger girls over a mild comment she took offense to, boasting she grabbed one girl by the hair and slammed her into a paper towel dispenser.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-76d0c971a6e6e2c6c5c052f2534c36bc fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-10\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-76d0c971a6e6e2c6c5c052f2534c36bc\"><\/div>\n<p>The story of her being the victim of a hate crime was entirely manufactured and simply repeated on a loop. In the same way, there is no indication Goddard was specifically harmed or neglected based on her LGBT identity. A family member raised her, she was removed due to abuse, and she was placed with a caring foster family. The state attempted to provide more in-depth help, and she ran away.<\/p>\n<p>She was living with an older man her grandfather knew about. How did \u201cthe system,\u201d fail her as a nonbinary, pansexual person? How did a \u201cgrowing climate of anti-LGBTQ animus, legislation, and attacks,\u201d factor into this situation? She lived in an abusive relationship. LGBT individuals have a <a href=\"https:\/\/ncadv.org\/blog\/posts\/domestic-violence-and-the-lgbtq-community\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">higher rate of domestic abuse<\/a> in general, with 44 percent of lesbians and 26 percent of gay men reporting intimate partner violence. Upwards of 61 percent of bisexual women report domestic violence.<\/p>\n<p>The reality is that the only person squarely at blame is her alleged murderer. Yes, Goddard began life with extreme disadvantages, and her family failed her. She ran away, got involved with drugs, and got trapped in an abusive relationship. But there is no LGBT-related legislation or awareness campaign or denunciation of \u201crhetoric\u201d that would have changed these facts.<\/p>\n<p>Similar to Benedict\u2019s story, LGBT media and advocates are only interested in using these tragic cases as weapons against political opponents. They want to bully, intimidate, and silence opponents using emotional blackmail and outlandish accusations. They don\u2019t care about helping victims. They just want to exploit them to get through the next election cycle.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-1dc31c142e2c94dcfe8652b847a7d9d1 fdrlst__b89e9-after-post-content\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-1dc31c142e2c94dcfe8652b847a7d9d1\"><\/div>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">    \t\t\t\t\t   \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GLAAD President Sarah Kate Ellis stirred controversy by linking the tragic death of 17-year-old River Nevaeh Goddard to anti-LGBT rhetoric and Republican policies. Her tweet sparked debate on the impact of such views on LGBTQ youth, shedding light on the harmful consequences of political narratives on vulnerable individuals<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":2228884,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Screen-Shot-2024-04-23-at-3.37.05-PM.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2228883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Screen-Shot-2024-04-23-at-3.37.05-PM.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2228883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2228883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2228883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2228884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2228883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2228883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2228883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}