The Life And Court Case Of Brandon Teena

Brandon Teena was a 21-year-old transgender, who dreaded to be associated with the word “lesbian”. She believed she was a man trapped in a woman's body. She considered herself a tomboy starting at a very young age and refused to wear any clothing that appeared feminine. Brandon Teena was a victim of rape on December 24, 1993. John Lotter and Marvin Nissan both raped and brutally beat Brandon. They first drove her to another location away from a gathering they all had attended and both took turns raping her. They threatened to end her life if she had told anyone. The next day after the assault she went to the police to report the rape. She was mistreated by the two sheriffs, who were assigned to her and asked her very inappropriate questions.

Emmett Till was born on the 25th of July, 1941. He lived his early life in Argo, Illinois. Argo is about 10mi southwest of Chicago. Living in Chicago, life as an African

The film, Boys Don't Cry, Kimberly Pierce's brilliant work of 1999, is the true story of, Brandon Teena, born Teena Brandon, played by Hillary Swank, who created a male identity for herself. Brandon was born in 1972 and died at the hopelessly young age of 21. The actual story takes place within the last two weeks of Brandon's life, in 1993. The movie, a dramatized documentary, was released in 1999. Brandon is a transgendered individual; he was born a female, but feels that he would be happier living as a man. She leaves her brother and hometown of Lincoln, Nebraska, where everybody knows her as Teena, to start a new life as Brandon. Brandon ends up in Falls City and his short life, as a man, begins. It is in essence, the epitome of

The film “The Brandon Teena Story” followed the story of Teena Brandon’s, who went by the name Brandon, death in Nebraska. Brandon lived in Lincoln, Nebraska, as a male, despite him being born as a female, at the start of the film. The audience was informed that Brandon had been behaving, acting, and living as a male for years. Brandon’s mother, Joann Brandon, had previously sent Brandon to counseling to treat his attempts and ideas about suicide, and presumably his gender dysphoria. However, after returning from counseling, Brandon’s want of being of man was only solidified. In the middle of November 1993, Brandon moved to Falls City Nebraska. It was in Falls City, Nebraska where Brandon met and befriended ex-convicts Tom Nissen and

The film, Boys Don’t cry, is about a transgender woman, whose family does not accepts him for who he is, so then he moves out to start a new-better life. Teena, known as Brandon, falls in love with a women who accepts him for who he is. He is convinced that he has found what he was always searching for; acceptance by a girl, and being able to change his identity without people knowing that he is a she. When his two guy friends find out that he is a transgender he faces his consequences. Because Brandon refuses to perform the gender assigned to him at birth, he is punished through rape—making “him” into a “her” again. This asserts that women are not allowed to express themselves as a man because if a woman expresses herself as a man; she will face her consequences for it.

Teena Brandon, the main character, is a young adolescent who saw herself trapped in a woman’s body. She was born with female organs; However, she always felt like a man and because of that reason she decided to show her true self and portray herself as a male. She changed her name to Brandon Teena and that is the moment when he became a transgender. Transgenderism is defined as “of, relating to, or being a person (as a transsexual or a transvestite) who identifies with or expresses a gender identity that differs from the one which corresponds to the person's sex at birth “. He dressed like a man, he had a man haircut and he also hid his physical attributes. He was a very good looking and charming young fella. Even though he was very clever

Although the aspect of gender is not revealed in the book Psychology: Core Concepts, the aspect of identity disorder is mentioned several times. The main symptom of gender identity disorder is feeling uncomfortable in the body of the sex a person was born. In the case of Brandon, he was born as a girl, Teena, but he did not feel himself a girl and identified himself as a boy. Moreover, he dressed as a girl, acted like a boy, and tried to persuade everyone that he was not a lesbian but a real man. Nevertheless, it is still unclear to what extent Brandon felt as a boy.

The movie Boys Don’t Cry is a touching film about a tragic true story. It is a story about the struggles a transgender man named “Teena Brandon” or “Brandon” for short faced during his life. Brandon was born in Lincoln, Nebraska in 1972 and lived there for the majority of his life. As he was growing up he felt different than the people around him. In 1992 Brandon was said to be suffering from a “sexual identity crisis” (also known as a gender identity crisis). In 1993 Brandon was facing legal trouble, so he packed up his things and moved to Falls City, Nebraska. Falls City was the first place he had been where he could identify as male and nobody knew him otherwise.

Lesbian couple Casagrande and Nicole Therese McGuinness smothered, stabbed and dismembered their transvestite housemate, John ‘Joanne’ Lillecrapp in their home on Norton Street, Angle Park in 2001. Mixed up in drugs, they took advantage of Joanne’s ‘giving’ nature and stole from him to fund their habit - and when he didn’t give them what they wanted they finally cracked. Unable to pick up the body, they decided cutting off body fat, flesh and chunks of her torso and burying them in her prised strawberry patch was a solution. They also cut off the head and arms which they burned in a drum at the Wingfield dump, which police found while searching for another murder victim, Megumi Suzuki. The pair truly represented those who had been pinned under the thumb of drug crime, and it was sheer desperation that drove them. At the police station, Casagrande gave a confession under the delusion that the police would give her more drugs. Casagrande was jailed for 10 years, having been charged with manslaughter. McGuinness, on the other hand, was charged with murder and was jailed for at least 18 years. Also ensnared in the furled grip of the drug world was Gary Beaumont, the poor man who was tortured for hours at

In a lot of places around the world more and more people are coming out as “Transgender.” The term transgender means that the person’s gender identity does not correspond with the gender they were assigned as having at birth. From personally having a transgender boyfriend I have since realized that these people experience a lot of discrimination in and from society. Many people simply just do not understand what the term transgender means and they see it as someone just “wants to be a man” or “wants to be a woman.” While there may be people who present it this way, it is more so that the individual just “feels” different, and “feels” as if they are “in the wrong body.” Some people experience this feeling at a young age as my boyfriend did in his elementary age. We live in a world who put these people down for being who they truly are, and no human being wants or needs that.

The film Transgender tells the story of a Transwoman by the name of Bree who did not know she has a 17-year-old son before she transformed into a woman. During his time as a man, he had relations with different women but nothing ever became serious for him because she was not being true to herself.

Boys don’t cry is a movie based on real events that focuses on the incredibly contradicted issues of transgender, ultimately displaying a goal of being yourself. The film is based around Brandon Teena, who is a young female-to-male transgender who flees his hometown because his biological identity had been revealed. He relocates to a small town in Nebraska, where he has the opportunity to start over. He becomes very popular very fast. Brandon meets tons of new people in his new town, and loves to go out drinking with the guys, and is an immediate charm to women, as they are only used to the inconsiderate, wild men that make up a great deal of the town. Brandon quickly becomes “one of the guys” and falls in love with Lana; a beautiful, well-known hometown girl. Brandon does not reveal to her that he was born a girl, named Teena Brandon. His new best friends soon discover this information about Brandon, and things immediately begin to fall apart for him. Once a very well-liked person in this small town, Brandon quickly becomes very hated by his friends. They treat him absolutely terribly, and do unspeakable things to him as they discover his biological identity. He is forced to accept the identity the men say he is, and things get very out of control, eventually leading to the murder of Brandon. Today, gender is a widely discussed issue and we have come a long way as a whole in accepting

Roxane Gay essay Careless Language of Sexual Violence, rape is often taken for granted “that male aggression and violence toward women is acceptable and often inevitable” (Pg. 126). We became so immune to the word rape, become rape is all-round us in society. We all knew a friend or a family member that had been a victim of rape. A rape story is just another sad thing happening to women. The New York Times had an article about an 11 old girl that had been gang rape by 18 attackers. There was picture and video of the attack. We live in a world where every horror thing is recorded or put on society media. The article forced mostly on the men’s lives after the rape and how the town folks will recover from the horror tragedy. The article did point out the

The film Boys Don’t Cry, revolves around the life of a transgender person, Brandon Teena, and his life and eventual murder. The film begins with Brandon and his cousin Lonny at a skating rink, where Brandon meets a young girl. Later they are seen making out as he drops her off at her house, it cuts to Brandon being chased by people who are apparently related to the girl yelling homomorphic slurs and threatening her. Her and her cousin, who is also gay hideout in their trailer and it is relived that Brandon is not a boy but actually a girl. The argument between her and her cousin reveal Brandon no longer believes that he is a boy, and that even his mother used to “lock her up” presumably because of her transgender behavior. Brandon’s cousin

To begin we start we the film that was viewed first, Boys Don’t Cry. Boys Don’t Cry offers an insight to the impressions of sexuality and transgenderism in the 1990’s. Five minutes into the film it shows Brandon Teena being chased by a mob of angry guys calling him a dyke (for him having slept with one of the men’s sisters’). That already shows there is hostility towards homosexuality and transgenders.