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"This is How I'm Gonna Be"

Clip: Season 12 Episode 25 | 2m 43s

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.

Aired: 06/14/11

Rating: TV-PG

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