Stone Butch Blues

With nowhere else to go, Jess turns to her old friend, Gloria, from the print shop. Gloria is now a single parent, living with her two young kids, Scotty and Kim. Jess quickly bonds with them, filling in as a babysitter or nanny whenever Gloria needs parenting support. Meanwhile, Jess and her friend Grant further consider the issue of steroids. Both are nervous about it but feel it is the only recourse that they have. They go to see a doctor, who offers them hormone shots if they pay him $2000. He is dismissive of their questions and it is clear that they are to administer their own shots and will not be back in to confer with him about any issues or side effects. Before her facial features change or her voice begins to deepen, Jess decides it is time to move and start over, this time as a man.

Jess is ecstatic the first time she is able to pass as a man at the barber’s shop. Jess also gets a job at a new plant, where she passes as male. By a quirk of fate, she runs into