Premise: "That the people with whom Brandon feels most at home would kill him if they knew his true gender is the movie's most tragic irony--and the one that lifts it out of the realm of gay-martyr hagiography and into something more complex and a meditation on the irrelevance of gender." If this premise is true, what does that tell us about whether it entails the hypothesis "It is sad to know that those close to him would not approve of his true identity. "?
yes