Canada: Mario's trans-positive ending (commentary)

[Natasha]

Canada: Mario's trans-positive ending

http://imprint.uwaterloo.ca/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2076&Itemid=58&issuedate=2008-01-04
01/10/2008

Brandon Teena was a bit like Birdo. He was transgendered, female-to-male. Brandon was also in a place populated by the ignorant — not the Mushroom Kingdom but Falls City, Nebraska. Brandon, like Birdo, chose to live life as his true gender. Brandon, though, had no chance to disclose his biological gender, not even to his girlfriend or best friends in Falls City. And eventually, they discovered his secret, Teena was gang raped and later shot and murdered by John Lotter and Marvin Nissen. This would become one of the most well known hate crimes in modern times against trans individuals.