Were you inside Brandon Teena’s head, that you are able to know what the “facts” are?
Are you familiar with the concept of transgenderism? Or as it’s called in the literature, gender identity dysphoria? It’s when one is physically one sex but mentally and emotionally the other. Since he was raped and murdered because he dared to live as the male he emotionally was rather than the female he was not, I tend to grant more credence to his understanding of his own experience than I do to yours.
Your turnip status is not at issue, although if you are raped and murdered for living as a turnip, I shall most assuredly extend to you at least the courtesy of calling you one.
And also like the SDMB, I suggest you do a little more research into transgenderism and sexual identity issues before throwing around such insensitive, ignorant comments.