Brandon Teena was an American trans man

Trans man

A trans man, transman, trans guy, or FTM is a transgender or transsexual man: a person who was assigned female at birth, but who identifies as male....

 who was rape

Rape

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d and murder

Murder

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ed in Humboldt, Nebraska

Humboldt, Nebraska

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. His life and death were the subject of the Academy Award-winning 1999 film Boys Don't Cry

Boys Don't Cry (film)

Boys Don't Cry is a 1999 American independent romantic drama film directed by Kimberly Peirce and co-written by Andy Bienen. The film is a dramatization of the real-life story of Brandon Teena, a transgender man played by Hilary Swank, who pursues a relationship with a young woman, played by Chloë...

, which was based on the documentary film

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 The Brandon Teena Story.
Teena was born Teena Renae Brandon in Lincoln, Nebraska

Lincoln, Nebraska

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, the younger of two children to Patrick and JoAnn Brandon. His father died in a car accident eight months before he was born, and he was raised by his mother.