A girl like me gwen

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Pardo , Mercedes Ruehl , and Avan Jogia. The film dramatizes the events surrounding the murder of Gwen Araujo , a transgender teenager who was murdered after acquaintances discovered that she had male genitalia. Sylvia Guerrero is a young single mother, looking to make a fresh start for her three young children. Having escaped an abusive relationship at the hands of the children's father, Sylvia has moved back home to California to live closer to her tight-knit Latin American family. Her father's birthday party is the first big family gathering since her return, and when she arrives, she encounters mixed reactions about her decision to leave her husband. After dinner, the children at the party decide to play a prank by putting Sylvia's son Eddie in a frilly pink dress.

Today marks the tenth anniversary of the brutal murder of transgender teenager Gwen Araujo in Newark, California. Only 17 years old at the time of her death, today Gwen would be a year-old young woman had her life not been brutally taken by four men who discovered she was born male. The story of Gwen's life has been celebrated and kept alive by her mother, Sylvia Guerrero.

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