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  • This story is so sad. She was an amazing person

  • @sweetakgrl jesus. what is wrong with you people? Just because they made a movie about her does not make her an amazing person. The movie industry is all about money - the crazier and more shocking the story, the more people that will buy tickets. They took a bunch of white trash lowlifes and glamorized their little lives - that's all. This "amazing" woman was a liar, a forger, a thief. She stole from the people that helped her. If she hadn't been murdered, she'd be in jail.

  • Being transgendered is NOT the same as being GAY. Jesus, people... Get some common sense and set your morals straight.

  • @PhoenixNutrition what is the difference? If you are a biological female, and you want to have sex with other women, what does that make you? I don't care what you WANT - or what you feel like - I mean, I would love to be able to fly. That doesn't make me a bird.

    And, if you ask me, this woman was very immoral. Not just because she misrepresented herself, she was also a liar and a thief.

  • The interesting thing is that when people from Lincoln who knew Brandon talk about him, you can see that they liked him no matter his gender, but people from Falls City talk about him like he was evil, like he manipulated them (Lotter's sister even used this word)... and that shows us that Falls City is in itself a place where transgenders, gays and even black people are treated like they were less than human, and unfortunately, that's not uncommon for small towns. These people are horrible.

  • How can brandon b honest if in the 90s people didnt understand what being gay means she was born that way she didnt choose to b gay she had no choice but to lie

  • @downwithbreeders yes, you are right, there is a major difference. A transexual is someone who can't admit that they are gay.

  • @Bhav341 Transexuality has almost NOTHING to do with your sexual preferences. YOU ARE AN IDIOT. It's a really big issue that some people have, that they struggle with enough without your idiocy and bigotry. Go educate yourself.

  • @jessieblift Who has decreed this as a "big issue"? Some shrink? How do you know what it really is? I have educated myself on this. I don't buy into it. Seems that the people who do just believe whatever is shoveled at them by bullshit psychologists and the media.. I'll bet you think it was perfectly okay for her to have lied and fooled the women she was intimate with as well - what about their rights to their sexuality?

  • @Bhav341 its a big issue, because she was raped and murdered and THAT is a big deal. Lying is wrong, but RAPE and murder was an act of hatred from the men. They did not care that she "lied" I think much of it had to do with their own pride and egos.

  • @WITJessica09 Of course I don't think she deserved to be raped and murdered. but sex is an important thing to people - and sexual taboos are strong in our culture. People have a right to know who or what they are being sexual with. It is wrong to misrepresent oneself in sexual relationships. She should have been upfront with the people she got close to. The consequences were extreme, for sure, but she placed herself in that situation. We are responsible for our choices and our lives.

  • There is no excuse for someone misrepresenting their gender and having relationships with people who think they're one gender when in fact they're another. That having been said it's obvious that you have to be pretty stupid and violent to take it so far as to kill someone for it.

  • Okay, I respect all you people getting passionate and riled up for teena, saying she was a man. She was born a female but died a man. . . Hmmm and then someone was Saying ''Does having a penis make you a man?'' Yeah it kind of does. Look, i'm sorry for bursting your bubble, but having a penis does make you a man, even if you feel like you were meant to be a woman. & vice verse. Uhh. . even Joanne calls Teena a girl. But you know, what do I kno?, i'm just a girl with a 10 inch shlong.

  • This is such a tragic story may u RIP Brandon Teena we will never 4get u=)

  • It's easy to say Brandon should have done this different. That he should have handled it different. But till the day you walk in the shoes of someone who it psychically a girl but mentally a guy. You will NEVER understand. Even if you are someone like Brandon you still have a hard time understanding. I'm a lot like Brandon. girl psychically guy mentally. This is the most in your face hard to swallow stuff. Even harder when it explains you.

  • why do people keep calling him a her...in my eyes he was a man

  • How could they ever think she was a man? LOL!

  • @sivazh why can't they? His mannerisms were of what they stereotypically call "man". What makes you a man anyway? A penis? And what if you lose it in an accident or a woman loses her breast because of breast cancer? Does that mean they are no longer a man or a woman? Brandon was born a female but was always a man. It would be better you respect him and others like him.

  • Movies and Pizza: luxuries in Nebraska lol

  • i feel bad for brandon that is truly a sad story but she should have been more honest with the people she got involved with. its not right to have poeple find out they were in a same sex relationship, as some people are against that. you have to respect those who are different (brandon being this) but you also have to respect poeples beliefs and sexual preferences etc. respect goes two ways. killing him just wrong however no excuse to do that and his killers should be punished to fullextent

  • @toolerloot mate, sorry to say this, but Brandon is a guy. He's a transgender guy, but a guy still the same. He is straight and the relationship he was in with Lana is straight. It's more than what's in your pants that define your gender. I do agree though that he could've handled it better, by telling them before they had sex.

  • @badassukeS fair enough. im bad with the he or she thing i know and i apologies for that. my comment has no issue with this however transgender/ gay bi whatever none of that bothers me. actualy have a friend becoming a guy at the moment. my point is some people have issues with what is between your legs right or wrong and as poeple should respect HIM for his choice, he needs to respect other poeple may have issues with that.

  • @toolerloot yeah, that's cool. I get what you're saying. :)

  • @toolerloot "she should have been more honest with the people she got involved with"....First of all, you mean HE. You are really disgusting and obviously uneducated trash. If the person he was dealing with at the time didnt have a problem with what HE was, why should anyone else? People should mind their own fucking business. Do you tell people you're a douche when you first meet them? I bet you dont.

  • @comeonnowism first off i do, i usaully say "hello my name is jon smith and im a giant douche" now moving out of the second grade name calling, i know at least one of his partners didnt know so cool with it or not she has the right to know before she gives her body to him. and its a youtube video and a known case im referring to so who's business is it if not the publics. lastly i havent insulted anybody while you ripped off four insults in a paragraph so who's being the douche here

  • @toolerloot Wow you left 2 comments. Must mean youre pissed. LOL you need to go back and read exactly what you wrote. I responded accordingly. Simply READ. Its not that hard.

  • @comeonnowism seriously is funny the person defending someone from harshness and douche baggery is the only one hurling insults and being a bully....

  • What's that song?

    04:49

    Please!!!

  • brandon wasn't gay.. brandon wasn't a female. brandon was born a female but that doesn't mean he was a female. its what is on the inside you can be born a male and be a female and vice versa.

    brandon was a man is a man had been a man felt he was a man

    brandon was a man :)

  • @cl0ckw0rkdementia I'd love to know who makes up all this "its whats on the inside" shit. Damn psychologists. Someone born with female organs and female hormones is a female. Both those things are on the inside too. If they are attracted to other females, like she was - she was DRIVEN by her desires for other women - then she was a lesbian. I don't understand what the big deal is. This person had lots of mental issues - the self hatred for her gender is just another one of them.

  • whats the song at 1:45?

  • @MouthOfTheUnknown

    the name of the song's "It's A Heartache", but I don't know the artist, I just know the song from Bonnie Tyler

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  • Oh Jesus. Lol

  • Like those girls she was with didn't know. A man can dress as a woman and a woman can dress as a man, but you can still tell that's it a man or a woman, they probaly just went along with the shock of it when people brought it up

  • @monicamarie07 yeah,just like men go with guys and shemales for the "shock of it"

  • @geiuy I'm just saying if I've met woman who dressed as men and I could tell it was a girl from the second i met them it's just the different features a man has from a woman, i didnt mean the shock of it i meant it like so that people would'nt make fun of them for it or something

  • it WAS GREAT!''

  • I like how they say brandon was "posing" as a man

  • christians say god made everything and that he never makes mistakes.so christians explain when some ppl are born with both male and female parts.i'm a nurse and have seen this a few times so why is it so hard to believe that a boy can be born with a female body or a female in a boys body.@ljbroussard you are right you see this in nature a lot..lol but i never heard of gay doves but at least i learned something new today thank you

  • holy shit, take a good look that these white trailer trash people. learn from it, of what not to be.

  • @renfieldvonklauss That's why they shot her!

  • RIP BRANDON TEENA

  • "he knew how to treat woman he knew how a woman wanted to be treated" NO SHITTTT he was a SHE

  • @kiggittykyle these people knew brandon as a male, they are used to called brandon a 'he'. Also brandon was a transgener female to male person, meaning that the Gender they knew they were was male.

  • hey all i just wonna ask

    what happen to the killers and lana ??

  • @NOURA1993A the received life sentences

  • @lashae313 THANK YOU<<3

  • i knew it ,i knew it Justin Bieber is a SHEEEEEEEEEEEE..............Wi­th the babyface and all ,4 sure a women.justin bieber aka Bieber Justin.

  • @renfieldvonklauss well not shit lol a woman clearly knows better than a male what spots on her body gets her going. so a female pleasuring another female is not a surprise. who do you think sucks the best cock? that's right, a guy does lol

  • POSED as a man lmao who did this documentary? idiots

  • Interesting that his sister (at least here) still refered to Brandon as a 'she' and a 'her', despite the fact he clearly was/wanted to be male.

  • @Serena2583 Well think about it, it must be hard to start calling someone who used to be your sister your brother, it doesn't mean she didnt support his decisions

  • @codmalt You're right. I was trying to say how hard it is/can be for some people to adjust, rather than saying she wasn't supportive of him.

  • I REALLY WISH they would interview these people in present day and see if their views of Brandon have changed now that we have all this information about gender identity disorder and of trans awareness. I really do

  • I saw this movie for the first time today. I was not expecting it to end that way. It's really fucked up.

  • @ShutMeUpxProductions i dont think i can bring myself to watch it again.

  • @ShutMeUpxProductions same, i was totally horrified and disturbed by it. Just goes to show how prejudice is one of the worst motives for murder

  • thats why his mother and sister are upset about the movie boys don't cry becuase they still see him as a her

  • WELL ITS'S LIKE EVERYONE WANTS 2 HAVE AN OPINION ON HOW 1 SHOULD LIVE THEIR LIFE,WHEN THAT PESON'S LIFE IS SCREWED UP!!! SO, NO MATTER HOW A PERSON BELIEVES THEY HAVE NO RIGHT 2 KILL THOSE PPL...THE MOVIE MAKES jon AND HIS buddy SEEM LIKE SOME CRAZY DUMB-ASS DRUNKS SO, SHOULD THEY HAVE BEEN KILLED 4 THAT REASON??? IF U DON'T AGREE W/ WHAT A PERSON IS DOING WELL DON'T DEAL W/'EM& IF THEY LIE 2U ABOUT WHEN U FIND OUT LEAVE 'EM ALONE,BUT PLEASE DON'T KILL 'EM!

  • It's funny how stupid fucking people try and put their 2 sense in like anybody gives a shit. So come on keep giving us your holy word, because you know everything right? Whatever you say goes? You're nothing but a piece of shit. Brandon was a man. Having a penis might make you a male, but it's the things you do and how you act that makes you a man. All those "guys" trying to say you need a penis, you're not a man, you're a sorry excuse for a male. ;) RIP Brandon. <3 we love you.

  • @Fighter9876 Great comment. X

  • Gina is cute....

  • I really need this in Spanish... where can I found it?

  • Is it just me or does the girl on 4:55 look like Sam from ICarly?

  • No Offense but.. He/she Kinda looks like Justin Bieber lol.. Its weird.

  • He was really handsome. and he's the proof that you dont need to have a penis to be a man.

  • @latina18chile LOL first, it ain't a he, second, having a penis is exactly what's required to be considered a man

    that shit's like saying flying squirrels don't need feathers, a beak, or wings to be a bird because they're both able to travel through the air for a distance

  • @latina18chile Yes he was :( I just cant believe how cruel people can be..

  • 7:53 - 8:12 compare to 7:12 - :30 on How to Raise a Street Smart Child - part#2 of 5

  • if cops would have put the boys in jail with no bond for rap,threats,and kidnaping and abused the first time there would not be a body count ,the cops was making it sound like he was not a victim,this case was so missed up

  • i love this movie "Boys Dont Cry" be cuz Teena Brandon showed to be yourself and dont be afraid if ur gay or not.. Teena Brandon is my role model be cuz this is such a sad story and i cry everytime when i watch this movie its so sad how those 2 ppl killed her be cuz she was a lesbian :( man i wish they never killed Teena Brandon and she will still be alive today :*( Rest In Peace Teena Brandon and may ur soul live on through ppl hearts :(

  • @matthewrocks13

    He was an FTM not a fucking lesbian you dumbass.

  • Please post the movie!

  • @imbackbitches212 it's on Netflix on demand. I feel EVERYONE who watches movies/shows, etc (and can afford 8.99 + tax a MONTH) should have Netflix. Totally worth it. And no, I dont work for them, they make enough money, I am just saying....Netflix kicks ass same way that youtube kicks ass.

  • Rest in Peace Brandon.

  • i have a friend like teena. she's pretending she's a man, but everyone knows she's not. we're living in a different time now, so i'm not scared. i believe she's gonna make it big, she's smart and beautiful. Love you, P <3

  • @ashterdaaam

    Transguys aren't pretending. Just letting you know. Transmen ARE men.

    And many transgender people are assaulted these days as well. Just because we live in a different time doesn't mean that everybody is accepting.

  • why is everyone except his family calling him ''HE''

  • @ariri

    Family often have the hardest time adjusting to their relatives being transsexual.

  • Also Brandon's bestest girlfriend Gina sucks infront of Lana.

  • @lovelybeaute That's what I was gonna say. Brandon looks like Angelina Jolie and a bit like the freako James Haven.

  • @boronghousegtk - Why is James Haven a "freako" ?

  • @lovelybeaute That's what I was gonna say. Brandon looks like ANgelina Jolie and a bit like the freako James Haven.

  • There is no doubt that Lana Tisdel was way hotter than all of these girls although she may have become fat and ugly by now. It's been thirteen years.

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  • His sister, Tammy, has the bone structure of Angelina Jolie!!

  • Reanna is one of the most attractive women that I have ever seen; she has a beautiful angelic face. A real southern belle ! I'm sorry for deviating from the discussion, but I really wanted to note my observation of that beauty. Thumbs up if you think Reanna is super hot !!!

  • thats not rifgt

  • why were the other victims killed? RIP brandon

  • @Loarali1991 Because homophobes hate the people who like or love gays, transgendered or lesbians.

  • @creolelady70 thanks, that makes no sense to me. Brandon was the same as everyone else. He was born a she and wanted to be a he, stories like Brandon's make no sense to me.

  • i would hate to livei n rural nebraska or anywhere near the country. anyway, Rip Brandon Teena

  • @CudiSoDopee

    I live in WV and no one says anything to me.

  • Why was the black victim was not depicted in the movie?

  • @kimberleyseetoes - Which Black victim ?

  • She didn't pose as a man, he identified as male

  • The bible contridicts itself over and over one mintue it says "god loves everyone" and then homosexuals/queer gendered people are considered "evil" and are all going to hell.... Stfu with this bible crap. If your going to hate us at least back it up with something that doesn't fuck itself over.

  • boys dont cry is not the real story

  • The bible has been used as justification for so many evil-doings "in the name of jesus" and "in the name of god"......it's disgusting. Sick, sick people.

  • @QAFgurl Yea well it also says not to Judge In the Bible .. So think about that ! Rip Brandon Teena !!

  • @bellapage666 I don't get what you meant by that......What are you saying?

  • (jesus christ) said gays should be put to death read your bible if you believe in god you will agree point blank but you simple people dont believe in god and christ being gay or a lesbian is a curse  a wicked sin

  • @mobjeeta

    The Bible talks about gay people but says nothing about Transgender so homosexuality is a sin and being Transgender isn't. Trust me, I study the Bible in every way.

  • the bilble said kill all gays ask your fake preacher about that

  • @mobjeeta It's the fake ones who say that :)

  • she makes a hot man.

  • I watched "Boys Don't Cry" two days ago, and it reduced me to tears. As a woman who is engaged to a FtM transgender who has yet to start hormones yet, but is in the process of setting it up, I thought, honestly, how are people going to react when he starts binding and dressing as a male. He just came out as transgender. What kind of crap will we get?

    Poor Brandon... It was not fair what happened to him...

  • this is not meant as an insult or anything, but he does look a little like Justin Bieber.. seriously dont get mad at me for saying that

  • @radarcivilian thats what i saiddddddddddddd!!!!! lol

  • Personaly I think that if the police had just brought Tom and John in for the rape of Brandon then he and the other 2 would still be alive. It disgustes me that even after he told them that they were the one who raped him it took the murder of three innocent people to bring them in. Then one of them gets to live?!? They both shouldve put to death.

  • Damn his girlfriends were hot.

  • Those two deserve life in prison, not the death penalty. They deserve to live out there lives being beaten and raped by other men, the death penalty is too good for them. And they aren't even sorry! I can't express my disgust enough. Brandon did not deserve how he was treated. If he felt like a man, vagina or penis then he deserved to be treated as one, loved for who he was. Not raped & killed out of ignorant, redneck, pricks.

  • i cant belive some of these can laugh about this, talking about how he lied. This is a ekstremly bad documentary. I wants to know Brandon, he is such a amezing man, i cant belive how his life turned out.

  • this clip annoys me. why the fuck do the interview girls and talks about their feelings. I want to get to know Brandon,

  • Imagine all of those girls that thought they were kissing a guy and then they found out later they were kissing a girl. Then they had to wonder if they were gay, or bi-sexual, or whatever. If I found out the woman I was kissing was actually a man, I'd go crazy! Deception is never okay.

  • @MattBeckstrom True the deception was wrong the point I get from all this is we need to build a society where people can be whatever they want. They can tell people what they are and that they are a guy with girl parts or whatever and if you dont like dont talk or go near them. No excuse to fucking kill the guy.

  • @MattBeckstrom neither is rape & murder.

  • @lambchopclmt I don't support the raping and killing of Tina Brandon - I am simply saying that too many people either find a way to justify her murder, or they find a way to justify everything Tina did in life. Raping and murdering people isn't right, but deceiving people isn't right either.

  • Why, of all the other safe places he could have gone, did he choose to live in Nebraska? Isn't that kind of like Walt Disney not wanting anybody to find him, so he went to Disney land to try to escape? That actually might not be a very good comparison, but still you know what I mean right? It makes no freaking sence!

  • does anyone else find it weird that that little boy and old lady are "friends"?

  • @speedx50 mother and son geez

  • And those people are listed as friends? SHE?!

  • i though JoAnn was his mother. that is what it says on wikipedia. why is she listed as a friend in this documentary?

  • @fleurgi sorry *thought

  • @fleurgi What do you mean?

  • men in general r scum. to top it of these r inbreed rednecks what the fuck to expect from them. should have shot them along with the sheriff. sorry excuse of humans.why these retard prisoners r even kept alive, for what....so that they can repeat.........what about the human right of the victims....retard prisoners shouldnt have any rights once proven guilty...only in these process one can clean the society. rehabilitation my ass.

    RIP BRANDON....& unfortunately many more like him.

  • it truly is sad that she was violated many times. she was raped as a child, then those dogs raped her after finding out her gender, then the police raped her , by the way they responded. life is something else. and though i know there is a god is he really better than the devil he created to allow such things to happen and not intervene being that he has the power. smh

  • the only problem here is that fucken redneck trash music

  • Are people seriously debating what happened to her was right or wrong ? You're not a functioning member of society if you don't know the right answer to that!

  • I have tranny friends and this makes me feel so bad for what they must suffer thru. Brandon wanted to be a man, he should be remembered as a man and the dumb girls in the video....grow up.

  • am i the only one whose really disturbed how a lot of this documentary is about how people tried to figure out if brandon was a girl or a boy? I mean he was raped twice, murdered, and lived a hard misunderstood life. And even after all that we are still trying to legitimize his gender. I don't like how the people in this doc talk about Brandon like he was less than human and seem to shrug off what happened to him. People need to be more educated on transsexuality and open their eyes!!

  • @jljr07 Totally agreed, coming from a female to male transsexual like Brandon. Brandon was male and was unlucky to be born with the female anatomy.

  • @grimreaper636 And by unlucky I mean he was unlucky to be male identified in a female body. I don't believe that those who are female in a female body are unlucky. I didn't mean to make it sound like being female is something less than male, I don't support that thought at all.

  • @grimreaper636 haha its cool I dont think you sounded that way. You're right he was a guy that was trapped in a womans body. I'm a guy whose gender coincides with my sex so I can't even imagine how that must feel and then to be ostracized for it. Its just so wrong. Personally, I think that transexuality is kind of a higher state of being and really beautiful.

  • @grimreaper636

    well i looked into this story. and according to what i read teena became brandon as a defense strategy because she was molested as a child therefor decided to betray herself as a male so another man wouldnt touch her. i dont think it was one of those cases where she wanted to be a man because she felt she really was one. theres a difference with that. dont always go by what movies betray because they do exaggerate to make the movie more spicy

  • If you don't mind I'd like to tell ya'll a story. A teen guy at my high school wore high heels for the day of silence. The vice principal says "we don't give you dress code unless we see you like that" well this person made the heel wearing guy in school suspension for being a distraction. Mind you, there are lesbians who dress like men and they get away with it. My drama teacher wasn't so happy about that. Is it just me or did that VP discriminate against the boy?

  • Aww he/she was a cutie =(

  • The reason why Teena a.k.a. Brandon knew how to please a woman is because SHE was a woman. In no way is murder of any sort justified. murder is the taking of a life wrongfully, they didn't do anything to deserve it. Killing is the taking of a life in self defense or the person DID do something to get killed. This is what we open ourselves up to when we choose to live in opposition to the way God the father created us. Let me say this again "murder is not of the Lord Jesus Christ".

  • for me the horrible things are he was being humiliated, raped, and killed... i dont care weather he was she or she was he, but these three actions completely criminal and out of law's action

  • Nebraska is a beautiful place. At least from interstate 80.

  • @soundclik43030 omg i said the same thing. they look just alike Justin Beiber is a lady and Gaga is a man

  • @vickizspace Yep, you have to give Brandon credit. S/he had great taste in women! BTW, many people swear that Jamie Lee Curtis was a hermaphrodite, and her parents had to choose whether to fix her to be male or female.

  • this story saddens me. the wholeeeee thing. I feel so sorry for transgendered people. I'm a lesbian, but I'm glad i don't feel like i was born in the wrong body. Its so hopeless.... =/ And what those fuckers did to him angers me to no end. People can be so cruel.

  • thankyou for sharing this , very intresting

  • lol Idk why I find it so hilarious that this documentary is supposed to be about Brandon teena and they were showing a whole bunch of scenes of Nebraska....as if they were like advertising the state or something...if you get what I mean...In my opinion I think the whole country music was unnecessary

  • @SLuMberMoOn7 I agree. They could have done such a better job on this documentary. It seemed to be very poorly put together.

  • ironic how his first and last name is a girl and boy name

  • All these comments are really upsetting. It's a good thing he isn't alive to see everyone call him she, and a woman over and over again just because of the way he was born. What about intersex people, you going to call them 'it' even if they decide to present themself as male or female? It's the fact that people like you can't be accepting of who he was that shit like this happens. Brandon was a beautiful person, a beautiful man.

  • @PandaValentine A beautiful man with a vagina?

    She was a woman

  • Why do they keep callin her "him"?? WTF.

  • @TheWedabest because she wanted to be a man