Tina Braxton
Gisle Benediktsson
Last night while listening to a newscast, I heard a brief story about a
TS/intersexed person in Wyoming who was apparently murdered. The
victim's name is Tina Braxton and she was supposedly quite vocal about
her gender situation but told three different stories: one, she was a
FTM, second; can't remember and the third is that she is intersexed.
Can anyone give me some sort of update or more details about this event?
Thanks.... :-)
/gjb
Russ Williams
I believe the name was spelled Teena (not Tina) and the state was
Minnesota not Wyoming. It was a small town (population 1000) and Teena
had lived as male for about 3 months. Two weeks after it became town
gossip widely known, Teena was raped on Christmas Day and killed along
with 2 friends also at Teena's house. The killers of the 3 people
were two men in their early twenties and the police have identified
them. The motive was not determined, but Teena's transgendered status
seems the obvious motive.
It was a pretty depressing disgusting news story to read.
Russ
Jonathan Allan
Hmmmm. Our local rag had her cross-living as Brandon Teena,
even though her real name was Teena Brandon. The article also
mentioned that police had no motive. But then our paper seldom
gets things right anyway; they don't even report rapes in the
paper here in River City... 8-(
(And yes, Rochester is the #1 City according to Money. It is
to laugh. Have a day.)
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In a previous article, xzz...@rchland.vnet.ibm.com (Jonathan Allan) says:
>In article <2gc8v4$8...@im4u.cs.utexas.edu>, ru...@cs.utexas.edu (Russ Williams) writes:
>Hmmmm. Our local rag had her cross-living as Brandon Teena,
>even though her real name was Teena Brandon. The article also
>mentioned that police had no motive. But then our paper seldom
>gets things right anyway; they don't even report rapes in the
>paper here in River City... 8-(
>
>(And yes, Rochester is the #1 City according to Money. It is
>to laugh. Have a day.)
>
>--
>Jonathan Allan, Analysts International Corp.
Here is an item which appeared in the Toronto Sun
PAPER The Toronto Sun
PDATE Tue 04 Jan 94
EDITION Final
SECTION News
PAGE 25
LENGTH 174 words
ILLUS photo of TEENA BRANDON
Dated women
DTLINE FALLS CITY, Neb.
HEADLINE Bizarre twist to 3 murders; SHE POSED AS A HE
BYLINE BY AP
Two men accused of attacking a woman who posed as a man were
charged yesterday with murdering her and two other people at a
farmhouse.
John Lotter and Marvin Nissen, both of Falls City, were charged
with three counts each of first-degree murder in Friday's slayings
of Teena Brandon, Lisa Lambert and Phillip DeVine.
* Brandon had posed as a man named Brandon Teena and dated women in
this town of about 1,000 residents until her identity became known
after she was arrested on alcohol and forgery charges. She was
killed two weeks later.
Richardson County Attorney Douglas Merz has declined to comment on
a possible motive but said he did not believe Brandon's sexual
identity was behind the killings.
Lotter, 22, also was arraigned on charges of kidnapping and
sexually assaulting Brandon on Christmas Day.
Brandon, 21, moved to the area about three months ago from Lincoln
and lived with Lambert, 23, and Lambert's infant son, Tanner, at the
farmhouse. The baby was at the farmhouse during the killings but was
not hurt.