00:00How would I summarize the story of Billy Tipton?
00:06He was a transmasculine jazz musician.
00:12Pretty simple.
00:14The first phrase that always comes to my mind is the gentleman's gentleman.
00:18You know, just the consummate professional and the gentleman's gentleman.
00:24The first time that I learned about Billy Tipton was probably 2003 or 2004.
00:34Just before I started my medical transition, I was doing a ton of research at that point.
00:40And so I wanted to learn about my ancestors, essentially, that came before me.
00:45In a way, Billy has been with me in sort of the background before my transition.
00:51And thinking about him again from the place of being a trans man was very interesting for me.
00:55Because I think I had held him, you know, in just a sort of general context of queerness prior to that.
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