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Independent Lens | Two Spirits | "This is How I'm Gonna Be" | PBS

Duration: 02:44
Program: Independent Lens #1225
Broadcast Date: Jun. 14, 2011

Fred Martinez felt that he was both male and female.

When Fred Martinez told his mother that he felt as if he was both a boy and a girl, she explained that this was a special gift, according to traditional Navajo culture. But the place where two discriminations meet is a dangerous place to live, and Fred became one of the youngest hate-crime victims in modern history when he was brutally murdered at 16.

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Post Date: May 4, 2011