'Being Gwen: A life and death story' | Watch documentary on murdered teen

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She was killed 20 years ago. But the murder of Gwen Araujo is still important today. The 17-year-old from the San Francisco Bay Area was punched, beaten and eventually strangled to death when several men discovered she was a transgender woman. The ABC7 Originals documentary, “Being Gwen: A Life and Death Story,” focuses on the struggles she faced early in life, her gender transition as a young teenager, and the tragic events in October 2002 that led to her death. Timeline here: https://abc7ne.ws/3hTSUyz

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  1. ; نسِااالُكِ بّاالّلّهً الُجْلُيَلُ الُجْبّارَ انَ تْنَقًذَنَا قًبّلُ انَ نَمٌوَتْ مٌنَ شِدِتْ الُجْوَْع انَيَ انَتٌْخيَكِ انَيَ دآٌِخلُةِ ْعلُى الُلُُه  تْمٌ ْعلُيَكِ انَيَ فَيَ وَجُْهك انَـيَ اخـتْكِ انَـيَ اتْرَجْـاكِ اتْـوَسِـلُ الُـيَـكِ انَـقًـذَنَا لُـوَجُْـه الُـلُُـه. يَــشِــُهدِ الُــلُــُه يَاٌخـيَ انَ مٌنَ الُــصّــبّاحُ حُـتْا الُـانَ يَــحُــرَمٌ ْعـــلُيَـنَـا الاكل غير الماء ( (آنيِ آتٍرجُآك وآتٍوسلّ آلّيِك يِآآخيِ آن تٍقرآ رسآلّتٍيِ هًذٍآ گٍآمٌلّهً وولّآتٍتٍرگٍهًآ بدون ماتقراها اخي اول گٍلّآمٌيِ آنآآقسمٌ ببآآلّلّهً علّى گٍتٍآب آلّلّهً آنيِ لّآآگٍذٍب علّيِگٍ ولّآآنصِب ولّآآحًتٍآلّ(اخواني اني اقسم بالله العلي العظيم على كتاب الله انني بنت يتيمه من اليمن ومعي اخوان صغار اقسم بالله على كتاب الله ان اخوتي ماعاد يقدرو ينطقو بكلمة من شدت الجوع وصاحب البيت يريد الإجار او بيخرجناإلئ الشارع و اني اسالك بالله وانشدك بمحمد رسول الله يااخي لوانت مسلم وتحب الخير واتساعدني ولو ب500ريال يمني ان تتواصل معي اوتراسلني وتساب علئ هذا الرقم00967774926188 وتطلب اسم بطاقتي وترسلي ولاتتاخر وايعوضك الله بكل خير فيااخي انت رجال إذاشفت اسرتك جاوعين تعمل المستحيل من اجل تامن لهم الاكب ولكن انابنت عيني بصيره ويدي قصيره ليس لي اب مثلك يسمح دمعتي ويحميني من الذل والاهانة😢 واخواني سغار شوف كيف حالتهم وساعدناوانقذناقبل أن يطردونا في الشارع نتبهدل او نموت من الجوع انااقسم بالله ألذي رفع سبع سموات بلاعمدوبسط الارض ومهداني لااكذب عليك بحرف من هذا الرساله واني ماطلبتك إلئ من ضيق ومن قسوت الضروف والحال الذي آحنافيه واناوأسرتي نسالك بالله لولك مقدره علئ مساعدتنا لاتتاخر عليناوجزاك .ألله خير ببا،،،،،،،،

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  2. ; نسِااالُكِ بّاالّلّهً الُجْلُيَلُ الُجْبّارَ انَ تْنَقًذَنَا قًبّلُ انَ نَمٌوَتْ مٌنَ شِدِتْ الُجْوَْع انَيَ انَتٌْخيَكِ انَيَ دآٌِخلُةِ ْعلُى الُلُُه  تْمٌ ْعلُيَكِ انَيَ فَيَ وَجُْهك انَـيَ اخـتْكِ انَـيَ اتْرَجْـاكِ اتْـوَسِـلُ الُـيَـكِ انَـقًـذَنَا لُـوَجُْـه الُـلُُـه. يَــشِــُهدِ الُــلُــُه يَاٌخـيَ انَ مٌنَ الُــصّــبّاحُ حُـتْا الُـانَ يَــحُــرَمٌ ْعـــلُيَـنَـا الاكل غير الماء ( (آنيِ آتٍرجُآك وآتٍوسلّ آلّيِك يِآآخيِ آن تٍقرآ رسآلّتٍيِ هًذٍآ گٍآمٌلّهً وولّآتٍتٍرگٍهًآ بدون ماتقراها اخي اول گٍلّآمٌيِ آنآآقسمٌ ببآآلّلّهً علّى گٍتٍآب آلّلّهً آنيِ لّآآگٍذٍب علّيِگٍ ولّآآنصِب ولّآآحًتٍآلّ(اخواني اني اقسم بالله العلي العظيم على كتاب الله انني بنت يتيمه من اليمن ومعي اخوان صغار اقسم بالله على كتاب الله ان اخوتي ماعاد يقدرو ينطقو بكلمة من شدت الجوع وصاحب البيت يريد الإجار او بيخرجناإلئ الشارع و اني اسالك بالله وانشدك بمحمد رسول الله يااخي لوانت مسلم وتحب الخير واتساعدني ولو ب500ريال يمني ان تتواصل معي اوتراسلني وتساب علئ هذا الرقم00967774926188 وتطلب اسم بطاقتي وترسلي ولاتتاخر وايعوضك الله بكل خير فيااخي انت رجال إذاشفت اسرتك جاوعين تعمل المستحيل من اجل تامن لهم الاكب ولكن انابنت عيني بصيره ويدي قصيره ليس لي اب مثلك يسمح دمعتي ويحميني من الذل والاهانة😢 واخواني سغار شوف كيف حالتهم وساعدناوانقذناقبل أن يطردونا في الشارع نتبهدل او نموت من الجوع انااقسم بالله ألذي رفع سبع سموات بلاعمدوبسط الارض ومهداني لااكذب عليك بحرف من هذا الرساله واني ماطلبتك إلئ من ضيق ومن قسوت الضروف والحال الذي آحنافيه واناوأسرتي نسالك بالله لولك مقدره علئ مساعدتنا لاتتاخر عليناوجزاك .ألله خير ببا،،،،،،،،

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  3. Hey Everyone life is precious please take this moment and receive God in your life pray to God everyday for his help in life situations, read the holy bible everyday, believe in God more than you believe in anything else, Trust God more than you trust anyone else, praise God more than you praise anything else, love God more than you love anything else and remember with God help all good things are possible all you have to do is never give up also a great place for you to start in the holy Bible is (Psalms 1) and everyday after that read a chapter in Psalms till you finish all the chapters in Psalms then after that start on (Proverbs 1) then everyday after that read a chapter in Proverbs till you finish all the chapters in Proverbs and after that read every chapter of the Holy Bible until you finish it for it will change your life in the most amazing way

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  10. The sister is crying about how she’s “Trying to understand how people can go to such lengths to disregard human life” yet your brother had no issue going to great lengths disregarding someone’s sexual orientation. Purposely deceived not one but two people. Disgusting. He did this to himself

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  22. Everybody in that house needs to go to prison. That female could had lied said she was a female and got Gwen out of their safely .She signed Gwen's death certificate with verification of her birth gender to those killers.

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  28. Is noBODY going to state the obvious??? It’s messed up she’s dead… but we need to stop with the reverse uno card making people think that only lgbt people deserve rights, are victims, can lie and deceive with impunity, can live in delusional world and be allowed all the grace, understanding, consent, and pointing of fingers… the perpetual lack of accountability is ridiculous… it’s the same as gRAPING someone because your not being truthful… she had three chances to do the right thing she messed around with theee dudes within like a week … and lied to them because these people are sick sick in the mind (for decades it was categorized as a mental illness) now all of a sudden we have to entertain the delusions of a sick individual she got OFf on turning out straight men probably as a way to feel in control powerful and shame the boys at the same time because maybe she’s jealous that they are ok in their skin. Are we going to ingnore that she caused her murder she made a conscious decision three seperate times to do the right thing and she chose self indulgence not accountability for her own choices and mistakes. So if we are following this fairy tale logic of the lgbt than if someone lies about a std in order to sleep with you then using your strawman argument that person w the std doesn’t have to disclose and can lie because it’s their business and they don’t have a duty to inform …. I’m not sure what she thought was going to happen but all this double standards and saturation of trans issues over and over is negatively affecting peoples perception of these people … I never had an issue with lgbt people personally didn’t care didn’t affect my life … but now that we are forced to use proper pronouns …. The fact that we have to excuse all their bad choices just because of their gender … that’s reverse discrimination and y’all think it’s progress but really y’all have just drawn a line is the sand and somehow your side deserves all the courtesy all the rights all the excuses to act in horrible and deceitful ways …. If y’all don’t like how this community operates then move to San Francisco because currently y’all have made a mountain out of a molehill and are just perpetuating negative views on lgbt …. Deviance is deviance doesn’t matter how much lipstick u put on a pig it’s still a pig … respect is earned not given …. This group wants to skip all the struggle and the fellowship among their fellow mankind and rush into the end zone and claim victory and pull your victim card but you can only do so much before people see thru your bad intentions and lose all respect and lose the chance to have the rest of the community be a part of your movement instead of shunning everyone except your kind which leads to tribalism and just fractures our society even more

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  29. No one deserves to be murdered rip… however your brother lied to these men that's not ok , I knew of a case like this a guy went with a woman as he thought and it was a trans , THAT GUY KILLED HIMSELF when he found out the truth. I'm sorry it's not ok to deceive men, that's a very serious thing to lie about. If the person told the truth this might have been very different

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  31. I do agree the loss is tragic and I am sorry to the mother and the person who lost her life but to say that she was pure I mean she just had sexual relations with two men back to back I mean the reason why males are so susceptible to getting hurt is they’re extremely promiscuous I mean at least women will say no but when a guy is asking another guy it’s a guarantee so they’re constantly just in carousel of s*x. I’m trying to be light when saying this

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  33. She should of been honest I mean she was really playing with fire there. I mean they were all wrong for sure but that’s weird to me to hear the sister say the disregard for human life referring to the killers but she must understand that I hope she’s saying that about all of them including her sister because her sister disregarded a lot too. And you know it’s not homophobic whatever somebody makes you think that they are a woman and engages in contact with you knowing you’re straight and then you are upset about I can’t imagine how that person feels so that’s not homophobic at all when being your deceiving something so huge

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