Who was Billy Tipton?

Who was Billy Tipton?

Billy Tipton was a jazz musician born in the early 1900's and he was assigned female at birth and the world of jazz at the time, did not accept women very well. You know it was kind of a down and dirty musical scene. Lots of drugs, lots of dive bars ,and dangerous characters. So the only women who were really accepted in Jazz, were singers who were supposed to be very feminine, very an object of desire as well as a singer. Billy felt that he was a man and did not want to be a pretty girl jazz singer or anything. He wanted to be a man. So he started dressing and presenting himself as male. And he transitioned to being male as well as was possible with the technology of that time. And he lived his life as a male, he was married several times to women, and he died as male. It was only after his death that a medical examination revealed that his body was physically female. Then that got devoured by talk shows and such, unfortunately.