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All He Wanted The Transgender Boy Who Paid the Ultimate Price

Aphrodite Jones

This book chronicles one of the first transgender murders reported by the American media. Living as a transgender man, Brandon Teena hit the dust bowl town of Falls City, Nebraska, just after he turned twenty-one. He was on the run from his strict Catholic mother in Lincoln who did not approve or un...

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It was initially titled 'All She Wanted', misgendering Brandon Teena, but the author later apologized and updated the Kindle version with the correct pronouns. It's considered a deep dive into the case, but contains potentially triggering content due to the earlier misgendering.

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There's a lot of information in there that you cannot find online and it's called All He Wanted by Aphrodite Jones.

— Episode: #214: The Rape & Murder of a Transgender...

Episode: #214: The Rape & Murder of a Transgender Man That...

It was initially titled 'All She Wanted', misgendering Brandon Teena, but the author later apologized and updated the Kindle version with the correct pronouns. It's considered a deep dive into the case, but contains potentially triggering content due to the earlier misgendering.

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There's a lot of information in there that you cannot find online and it's called All He Wanted by Aphrodite Jones.

The problem is the book is really triggering and takes a lot of work to get through. Mainly because of the consistent misgendering and lack of knowledge on the transgender community that is rampant in this book.

The book was even initially titled All She Wanted. Literally misgendering the victim in the book title.

However, the Kindle version has been updated now to All He Wanted along with a deep apology from the author.

So although the book has changed the title and there's like the author's note when referring to Brandon's childhood, he still misgendered in the book.

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