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Brandon Teena (born Teena Renae Brandon on December 12th, 1972 with Lincoln in the Nebraska with the the United States, and dead on December 31st, 1993 with Humboldt in Nebraska) is a American Transsexuel (physiologically a woman, it lived as a man transsexual) which was tabassé, violated then finally assassinated in one of most sadly the famous crimes étatsuniens of the years 1990. Brandon Teena inspired two films: documentary the The Torch Teena Story then the film of 1999 Servant boys Don' T Cry , which gained a Oscar of the cinema.

Biography

Childhood

Brandon Teena was born in Lincoln, in Nebraska in 1972. Its family describes it as being a “Real tomboy”. When Brandon still lived as a girl, he was sexually deceived by a close relation. According to his/her mother, JoAnn Torch, she and Torch sought an psychological assistance in 1991.

Torch started to be identified like a boy at the university and gave amorous meetings to girls. Because it was afraid of the rejection and the reprisals, it always kept its hidden biological sex. The family of Torch had evil to accept it such as it was. His/her mother rejected her identity of man and continued to call Brandon " its fille". On several occasions, Brandon claimed to be intersexué in order to camouflage its crisis of sexual identity, but it was proven later that it was not intersexué., Brandon started to leave with Lana Tisdel, a friend of LISA Lambert, and with being friendly with John Lotter and Marvin `Tom' Nissen, two ex-prisoners. Nissen was married and had two children. Tisdel and Lotter had been friendly since childhood and had left several years together before. Another man, Philip DeVine had started to leave with the younger sister by Lana Tisdel and also bound friendship with Brandon.

December 15th, Brandon was imprisoned for false accounts - checks and usurpation of identity. Lana Tisdel paid its guarantee. Since Brandon was in the section reserved to the women in the prison, she learned that Brandon was a woman. When Lana Tisdel questioned Brandon on its sex, he clearly answered that it was about to be made operate to become a man, and they continued to leave together.

The arrest of Torch was revealed in the local newspapers under its name of birth, Teena Brandon. Its knowledge thus learned that Brandon was biologically a woman.

Rape

With a festival of Christmas, Nissen and Lotter were completely drunk. They seized Brandon and forced it to remove its pants, in order to prove in Lana Tisdel that Brandon was a woman. Lana Tisdel looked at only when they forced it to do it, it did not say anything.

Lotter and Nissen then attacked Brandon, and forced it to enter a car. They led it to a quiet zone close to a factory of meat packing, tabassé it and violated it. They are then turned over in the house of Nissen.

Torch is escaped of the bathroom of Nissen by the window and went to see Lana Tisdel. She convinced it to bring back the Viol to the police force, in spite of the threats of Nissen and Lotter.

Torch was thus brought to the urgencies, where a standard kit of taking away of evidence on a victim of rape was employed, but this kit was then lost. The Sheriff of the time, Charles B. Laux raised questions with Brandon concerning the rape. It was reported that the sheriff was very interested by the transidentity of Torch, at such a point that Brandon considered to be its questions useless and coarse and ceased answering.

Nissen and Lotter heard of the procedure, and tried to find Brandon. But they could not find it, and three days after the police force came to question them. Although both have already a Police records, Laux did not stop them.

Murder

During the interrogation, Lotter completely denied the fact of having touched Brandon and Nissen showed Lotter of rape on Brandon, affirming to have made only look at. Nissen and Lotter continued to seek Brandon, which thus took refuge at LISA Lambert. Nissen and Lotter finally knew where it hid and thus provided a firearm by concealing it to a neighbor. The two men thus went to the house of Lana Tisdel. Lana Tisdel answered that Brandon was not at it, but his/her mother revealed to them that Brandon was at LISA Lambert.

Thus, Lotter and Nissen went to enter of force at LISA Lambert. They found confined to bed it and required to know where Brandon was. LISA Lambert refused to speak. Nissen excavated the house and finally found Brandon under the bed. Nissen and Lotter asked LISA Lambert if there were someone else in the house, she said that there was also Philip DeVine. This one was cut down, like LISA Lambert and Teena Torch, in front of the child of LISA Lambert.

The two men left, but quickly were apprehended and prosecuted for Meurtre.

Lawsuit and sentence

Nissen put the rape and the murder on the back of Lotter. Later, in order to reduce its custodial sentence Nissen admitted to have been accessory to the rape and the murder. Nissen provides a testimony against Lotter and was condemned to the prison to perpetuity. Lotter contradicted the testimony of Nissen, but its testimony was discredited. Lotter and Nissen have both fact call of their judgments, and these calls are still being treated.

September 20th, 2007, Nissen abjured its testimony accusing Lotter. He thus affirmed to be that which had cut down Brandon and which Lotter was not implied. Lotter appeals and uses this new testimony of Nissen to prove its innocence.

Treatment in the media

Since Brandon had begun neither hormonal treatment, nor operations of change of sex, it often has was regarded as a Lesbienne by the journalist. However, some testified that Brandon was about to be made operate in the direction of a sexual reassignation.

JoAnn Torch, the Mother of Torch prosecuted the sheriff Charles B. Laux not to have protected the life from Torch, and to have been partly responsible for this one. It gained the lawsuit and accepted 12.000 $ of damages.

The sheriff Charles B. Laux was also criticized by other people after the murder to have missed initiative and for his behavior moved with respect to Brandon. Some time in his report/ratio and during the deposition of Torch, it referred to it with the neutral pronoun intended for the objects (it), it said “that rather” than “it” or “she”.

Lana Tisdel prosecuted the producers of the film Boys Gift' T Cry for unauthorized and abusive use of its name in the feature film. She claimed that the film depicted it like " one feignasse, a drug addict and a malicious serpent". Lana Tisdel also claimed that the film was mistaken by claiming that it continued to attend Brandon after having learned that it was anatomically a woman. She ended by reaching an arrangement with the company of distribution of film and up touching a not revealed sum.

The tomb stone of Torch mentions its name of birth: “Teena R. Brandon” and the epitaph carries the inscription “girl, sister and friend”.

In 2006, the British duet Pet Shop Boys left a song on Brandon Teena entitled Girls Don' T Cry (a song no-claims bonus, left to Great Britain on CD I' m with Stupid ).

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