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[edit] Brandon Teena

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Brandon Teena (December 12, 1972 - December 31, 1999), born Teena Renae Brandon in Lincoln, Nebraska. Brandon, a transman, who had a male gender identity and lived as a man, was raped and murdered when his birth sex was discovered.

Brandon had not started Hormone replacement therapy or had had Gender reassignment surgery. This to some suggests that Brandon was transgender rather than transsexual, but others note his plans to have sex reassignment surgery, suggesting he was a transsexual man. As with many other female bodied persons who lived as men it has occasionally been claimed that he was a lesbian. There are however no indications of that; (compare Homosexuality and transgender).

He dated Lana Tisdale, a local woman.

Brandon Teena was portrayed by Hilary Swank in an Academy Award winning performance in 1999's Boys Don't Cry, which was itself based on the documentary film The Brandon Teena Story. Lana was played by Chloe Sevigny.

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• List of transgender-related topics
• Transphobia
• Gwen Araujo, another murder victim related to transphobia

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