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She was so beautiful that it makes sense why she lived as a man, imo. There's no way she could've been a successful jazz pianist without being constantly harassed (and underpaid for gigs) as a beautiful lesbian, especially traveling alone around with men in jazz bands. Hell, Ray Charles was taken advantage of and ripped off because he was a blind man. Billy Tipton would've experienced much worse.