10 years after Brandon Teena's death
10 years ago, the brutal rape and murder of Brandon Teena, a transgender person in Falls City, Nebraska, propelled an activist movement to demand civil rights for the transgendered. Since then, a few large companies and a few states have included transgender rights in their anti-discrimination policies. Nebraska's attempt at an anti-discrimination law, which did not include protections for transgender people in 1997 law was found unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme court. Although Falls City and Nebraska have received national attention for the case through news and the movie "Boys Don't Cry," many residents still blame Teena at least partially for what happened to him.
Sioux City Journal
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