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Teena Brandon is buried under her real name. That is a fact , and is properly cited. Since we know Teena NEVER went under tha name Brandon Teena, and her grave stone reflects her actual name, I propose the article title be changed accordingly.Nanaharas 23:35, 13 May 2007 (UTC) Whoever's screwing with me on this, DON'T!

(December 03, 1996) Marvin Thomas Nissen, serving a life sentence for the 1993 shooting deaths of Brandon Teena, his girlfriend Lisa Lambert, and friend Phillip DeVine, will try to convince the State Supreme Court in Nebraska this week that he deserves a new trial due to errors made by police and the judge. [1]

Brandon Teena's gender identity was a pre-operative male transsexual, a 'he'. His surgical, genital, therapeutic, or genetic status is irrelevant. Calling Teena by female pronouns will cause far more confusion than it will solve, both about Mr. Teena's gender identity, and the concept of gender identity in general.

And to clean up the article more the use of the name "Teena" should be only used when discussing "her" early life but later on when the talk begins about "him" the article needs to use one of the male names - Ray, Billy, or Brandon. It seems from 1993 until her/his death the name "Brandon" was the primary name used.

As I said, here's one from the BBC: "But Brandon's mother JoAnn is campaigning for justice for her child, who was born Teena Brandon but flipped her names when she started living as a boy." and "Brandon, 21, had lived as a boy for several years, strapping her breasts down, wearing men's clothes and padding her underwear with socks. She was also ...