No Ordinary Man | movie | 2021 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

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00:01He was a doting, loving, caring, ordinary father.

00:05Father?

00:06Father. He was their father.

00:10I'm auditioning for the role of Billy.

00:12I'm here for the role of Billy.

00:14Auditioning for Billy.

00:15This is Billy.

00:21How would I summarize the story of Billy Tipton?

00:24He was a trans-masculine jazz musician.

00:27When I encountered Billy Tipton, that was the first time I encountered trans-masculinity.

00:34Those of us in this generation, we are in a much different place than Billy Tipton.

00:38We are public in a way that so many trans people before us haven't been able to be.

00:42Trans people's survival through history was based on invisibility.

00:47It's scary when centuries of your survival have been based on not being seen.

00:54And you have no models. You have no history.

00:57It's like you never existed, but you know you must have.

00:59And then you see Billy Tipton, and you think,

01:01People like me existed, and they did things.

01:03They were jazz musicians.

01:04They'd be one of the greatest jazz musicians ever.

01:06So that you're looking for someone who exists like you, so you're not alone.

01:10I'm Billy Tipton.

01:12My band is here for the...

01:14Sorry, I wasn't expecting you to be here.

01:16Well, same to you, buddy.

01:17There's a whole history of media where you see people and you don't realize that they're trans,

01:22and then something gives it away.

01:24And more often than not, it's the voice.

01:26My voice still squeaks.

01:27It keeps dropping, so I can't get used to it.

01:29I'm still trying to make my voice sound deeper all the time.

01:32It's such a volatile and complicated thing to imagine that we know what people's gender is from looking at them.

01:40It's not a question about passing.

01:43It's a transition story about somebody who's unhappy about something in their life,

01:47and they figure out the way to make themselves happy.

01:52Billy Tipton was so ahead of his years.

01:55To be brave enough to hide in plain sight.

01:59He feels like he's the only person in the world who's like him.

02:02I've had that moment.

02:04So much of my not being seen as a small person has led me to this role of somebody

02:09who desperately wants to be seen.

02:12Lots of people in my community look to your dad as a kind of hero.

02:16It kind of blows me away that, you know, after all these years, anybody even remembers him.

02:21I thought I was like totally alone in this.

02:31Pass is what? Regular?

02:33I don't want to fucking be regular.

No Ordinary Man | movie | 2021 | Official Trailer

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