Brandon Teena was a young American trans man, who was raped and murdered by his former friends after they discovered his truth. Born as a female into a conservative Irish-American family, he was sexually molested for many years by an uncle. He began to identify himself as a boy in his adolescence, eventually starting to date young girls, having quite a few romances by the age he was eighteen. Around this time, he also got involved with petty crimes in order to buy gifts for his girlfriends. To avoid probation, he moved to Falls City around the age of twenty-one, hoping to start a new life there; but was soon arrested for check fraud. Eventually it was revealed that he was biologically a female, which infuriated two of his male friends, who abducted and raped him. When he reported the incidence to police they were further enraged and shot him dead.