Film explores death of transgendered Colo. teen

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Film explores death of transgendered Colo. teen
BY JOE HANEL
Durango Herald
Published: Saturday, November 28, 2009 6:42 AM MST

http://www.aurorasentinel.com/articles/2009/11/28/news/state_and_region/doc4b11268583244999794934.txt

DENVER | Fred Martinez was anything but simple.

He was, at various moments, a boy, a girl, a Navajo, a Montezuma-Cortez High School student, gay, transgendered, "nadleehi."

In June 2001, in a ravine just south of Cortez, he became a murder victim.

Now, he's the subject of a movie, and, if the filmmakers have their way, he will become a window onto a view of gender that is at once new to American society and older than America itself.