Hello everyone and welcome to the Psych Legal Pop podcast. This is a podcast where we talk about

popular culture through the lens of an attorney and a therapist. My name is Brooke Brigham. I'm the

attorney. And I'm Tess Brigham. I'm the therapist. And today we are going to talk about a

documentary that is really quite groundbreaking. It was made in 1998,

and it's called the Brandon Tina Story. This documentary looks like it was made in

1972. I don't know what year. This is the 90s. Yes. Look like the 70s.

Yes.

We'll get into that more.

But this was the first.

And then the next year in 1999, a film came out about the Brandtina story.

And it starred Hillary Swank and Chloe Sevenie.

Both were nominated for Oscars.

Hillary Swank won the Oscar for Best Actress.

And so this was really the first that I can remember,

mainstream portrayal of a story of a transgender person.

And it's a tragic story because Brandon Tina was murdered.

But like I said, it really brought to the forefront of culture.

You know, this is happening.

And, you know, I mean, I'm sure a lot of people had no idea that people were going through this, lived like this.

This is the beginning of transgender visibility and rights and advocacy and all of that.

Yeah.

So it was a combination of Brandon, Brandon's story and then Matthew Shepard that was 1998, 97, that really got people to start to, you know, lobby for hate, you know, we need stronger hate crime laws.

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