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Real Boy - Beard and a Haircut - Clip

In this excerpt from the Independent Lens film Real Boy, trans teenager Bennett talks to friend Joe Stevens, a trans folk singer, about trying to grow a beard and how to groom it when it finally does come. Bennett may just have "one chin hair at the moment" but Joe does give him a nifty new haircut as they talk about how they had "girls' haircuts" forced on them as kids.

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