Has anyone seen the lifetime movie ''a girl like me'' the story of eddie gwen araujo?

Question

ur opinion of the movie? and how it was a true story? no rude comments please lets respect him/her as they are now gone.

Answer 1

After it makes me think what if i was him and didnt feel right about who iam and people to dont treat me right because i want to be like someone else i think it was so wrong that they killed Gwen because she was traped in the wrong body it's very sad and makes you think about how mean people can be did u see the fake pics in the beganing of the movie what the did to her?
It's sad but we need to let people be who they want to be and gwen was killed by a hate crime it's makes me want to cry for all the hate victims that was killed image if you was a boy and had feelings like a girl?
Remeber Gwen story.

Answer 2

Yeah, my two best freinds and I watched it on Monday. To be honest, I hadn't heard of the Gwen Araujo story before, but the movie was getting a lot of publicity from what I could see. We all loved it, of course. And well, being me, I even cried a bit. I knew it was a true story as I watched it, because I had heard that before, and it was shocking to know that this character, whom I adored so much, was going to die in the end. Even more shocking was knowing that a real person had been through that. I really liked Gwen, even if she had made a few bad choices, because she was really very sweet, and definately a good example of a young person to show someone who has an 'iffy' opinion of people who are transgendered. All in all, as said before, the movie was great and the story was sad.

Answer 3

I saw the movie when it first came out on lifetime and at first i didnt think that gewn was murdered at the end until i watched the movie and how it shows the court hearing in the beginning. i thought that the movie was sad and very tragic. She couldnt help who she was nomatter how hard she tried. she was who she was. I liked the fact that, it was very close to how it really was for her in real life. I cried..i'm not even going to lie...because those guys didnt have to do all that to her. i can c them ruffin her up a little bit..but to beat her continuously..non stop?? come on now people!! It was such a realistic movie because there r indiviuals that r being murdered after finding out that that person is not a female but really a male. I understand tht maybe the transexuals might be asking for a guy to want to get in their pants, by pushing up on them and whatnot, but that doesnt mean that they're askin for someone to flip out on them and to b killed. The movie overall was an extroadianary movie and i can wait to c it again.

Answer 4

I didn't see it but I'm sure they will replay it. It was on the Lifetime channel and you can go there to check when it's coming on again. I did watch "The Truth about Jane" which is about a teenager who figures out she is a lesbian and how it affects her family and school life. It was good. I have a few ideas on stories they could make into movies.

Answer 5

I saw that movie. SAD MOVIE! It's a shame how ppl cant respect eachother. It's also a shame that the courts cant see a hate crime when its right in their faces. I'm glad that those boys are paying for what they did. I feel bad for eddie "GWEN" who didnt need to die that way. NO ONE SHOULD HAVE TO GO THROUGH THAT.

MY CONDOLENCES TO HER FAMILY

Answer 6

My daughter, husband and I watched it on Monday. It was touching...I felt very sorry for that person. BUT I did think he brought some of the negative attention on himslef and I do really think he should have been more honest with those guys. I mean didn't they say he had oral sex with a couple of those guys who ended up killing him? We could never decide if we heard that right or not.

Answer 7

i absolutely loved the movie! It was really sad to see how she was treated. I know i wouldn't be able to function if i was in her situation. Overall it was a really good movie to open the eyes of society to not judge others based on their gender.

Answer 8

I am a transwoman myself and I have been reading a lot about the backstory of this movie. The fact is, they tried to be as accurate as possible in making this movie and didn't cover up the fact that Gwen used extremely poor judgment (please do NOT call her Eddie - her name has been legally changed and so it's extremely disrepectful). That's right I'm trans and I can accept that I and people like me are certainly NOT perfect and make our share of mistakes... but MURDERING a girl?

Whether the death was accidental or not was irrelevant. The fact that Gwen was trans means that she may have been weakened by hormone treatments and therefore as fragile as a born female. A beating like she received probably would have seriously injured or killed even a 17-year old male, but it her case it did kill her and they should have thought it might before they allowed themselves to fly into a druken rage (where I'm sure "if you don't help you're a f**" was uttered amongst them more than once).

However, these guys were homophobic, scared, drunk, on drugs, and in a social environment, and so how else would a reasonable person expect them to react to finding out someone's sex is not the same as their gender? Despite the fact that I'm lesbian I am still all too aware of the violent potential of a male who's sexuality has been challenged as I too was savagely abused by the boys growing up for the way I walked and talked and handled my conflicts with words instead of fists.

The real conflict in being transgendered comes from the fact that we live in a society that tells us our genetalia defines who we are, not our brains, which of course makes absolutely no sense at all and is a pretty narrow interpretation of freedom, isn't it? In fact there is plenty of scientific study showing that a part of the brain called the BSTc is sized the same as the opposite sex in transpeople and that this is likely caused by mistimed hormonal 'washes' in utero, making transexuality a simple and correctable birth defect much like intersex (hermaphroditic) conditions for which nobody bats an eye if a person wants to change genders because of the ill-informed decision of the doctors to choose a gender for them in infancy. So this is about IDENTITY in that our brains control what we like and dislike, how we walk and talk, the way we hold ourselves, and even how we solve our conflicts. To deny this and attempt to live as someone we are not comes with the consequences of depression, anxiety, and all-too-often suicide - myself being at the verge more than once over the years. People have a Goddess-given (yeah I said it!) and Constitutional right to be healthy by being the people they were meant to be - the way nature made them.

Incidentally, a lot of non transgenders, or 'cysgendered people,' alter themselves too - but with transpeople it's not simply about our noses or our lips - we feel like *everything* about us is wrong and for a lot of us it takes a long time to figure out what that means exactly (I was 26) because our brains don't tell us that we're TS per se - we just realize one day that we have the tastes of and behave like the opposite sex and would be better off living that way. In my case I was never attracted to males and didn't even have or really want male friends, so I knew when people started accusing me of being gay that something was up. Fact is, when I was male, people always saw me as being truthful, yet fake. It became apparent to me that it was because my male personality was forced and that everyone else had been seeing that for a long time. In other words, I was truthful with others, but not myself. So people like me use our physical transformations as our primary way to begin to be at peace with ourselves and the way we deal with our society which may hopefully now finally begin to accept us in our appropriate genders. Remember: gender is a person's psychological identity which is not dictated by their physical sex and in most people these two do not conflict which is why people like me are misunderstood and to an extent even feared.

In the end, the movie was right-on with it's message: hate is wrong and murder is wrong and transgenders are just trying to feel normal and gender congruent like almost everyone else (something most people take for granted) and be seen for the person they are on the inside by altering the outside to match.
The movie teaches another important lesson in always keeping Gwen's culpability in question; that lesson being that it's always important to use discretion and caution in potentially unsafe situations and to not ignore the risks of our own actions because anything could happen to anyone for any reason at all and so it's better that we don't invite trouble into our already complicated lives!

Luv Sarah, xoxo

Answer 9

Didn't see it...but did follow the real story on the news a few yrs back.
It is devastating how intense homophobia is in America.

Answer 10

Gwen Lifetime Movie