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On December 19, 1993, Brandon Teena was arrested for forging checks, and put in jail for several days. Tisdel found out he was transgender after his birth name was printed in the local newspaper in the arrests section. Tisdel paid to get him out of jail, and he told her that he was undergoing sex reassignment surgery.

The Brandon Teena Story is a 1998 American documentary film directed by Susan Muska and Greta Olafsdottir. [1] The documentary features interviews with many of the people involved with the 1993 murder of Brandon Teena as well as archive footage of Teena. [2] After its theatrical release, it aired on Cinemax as part of its Reel Life series.

Brandon Teena was a trans man who was gang raped and murdered by a group of male acquaintances in December 1993, when he was 21. [nb 1] [11] [12] Kimberly Peirce, at the time a Columbia University film student, became interested in the case after reading a 1994 Village Voice article by Donna Minkowitz.

Brandon Teena was a trans man who was raped and murdered in December 1993 whilst living in Humbodlt, Nebraska. [5] His death, alongside two of his friends, is thought to be a hate crime motivated by his status as a transgender man.