In trans masculine circles, Billy Tipton is seen as both an ancestor and a martyr. The jazz musician came up in a time when there were not yet any medical advancements in trans-affirming surgeries in ...

Stories as juicy as jazz musician Billy Tipton’s don’t come around often. Tipton, a much-divorced father of three adopted boys, was at best a minor figure in the music world, but he became world ...

After the death of American jazz musician and longtime Spokane resident Billy Tipton in 1989, the media was thrown into a frenzy after Tipton was outed as being transgender. This came as a shock to ...