Always Jane

I hope everyone could have the experience that I've

had with my family.

I, uh God, I can't even imagine what it would be like

without them.

My life would have ended up in a much different direction

if I didn't have them.

It is my safe place. It is my home,

and where I feel the most comfortable.

I hope for a world where

being yourself is instantly acceptable.

So this is my room.

Mirror. Gotta check.

I need to get my hair cut.

I have so many split ends.

Disgusting!

You see Youtubers doing this crap.

That's not a good angle.

Okay, bye.

My name is Jane. I'm a senior in high school.

My family is crazy, and loud, and obnoxious, but...

We're a family and at the end of the day we're always gonna

be there for each other no matter what.

- Good morning. - Morning.

I was a vegetarian, please.

That's what warned us to Jane's girlfriends.

They're vegetarians and she makes likes soups and stuff,

and I'm like, that's, that's, that's chicken stock.

She's vegetarian. She's like "Ah, she'll never know."

They won't know they are on day one again.

You're sinister.

My mom's name is Laura and she is very loyal.

And she's always being annoying, and over-stepping

sometimes, but it's only because she cares.

Thank you for the eggs mom.

You're welcome. Thank you for cleaning the dishes.

Okay.

She's a mama bear. That's how she describes it, but

I wish everyone had a Laura in their life.

That's it. She will not move now.

That's really pretty, girl.

My dad, David...

He is honestly the best dad I could ask for.

He is very funny and embarrassing.

Is that you, dada?

Yeah, hi honey.

Are you pooping?

It's really bad in here.

Oh.

Hey...

Ugh!

And Mae...

She's the smartest one out of all of us.

She has her moments where we're just laughing so hard

that we can't even control it.

- That's gross - Ow, fuck, Mae!

We put lash adhesive on our lips.

I'm Debby Ryan now.

Ew it looks like I got stung by a bee.

Emma, let me see yours.

Emma, she's my other sister. She's the oldest.

And what can I say about her...

She's a bitch! No, I'm kidding.

Am I gonna be famous?

No.

She's in the Coast Guard Academy.

Coast Guard Cutter Yeagan,

this is Coast Guard Cutter Hamilton, over.

She comes home sometimes on weekends.

She's very much my like my dad and my mom if they were like

mixed together.

She's very overprotective. She's a very positive person

to be around.

You're overevaluating food.

You're like this... "So, how is it?"

You know what he does? You know what he does?

He eats something and he sits there like this...

Yeah, why do you do that? He does do that!

But then we're like "What are you doing?"

And then he's like "I'm feeling the food."

"I'm knowing the food."

My grandfather, his name is Gabriel.

Hi!

Hi, honey.

- You want a new one? - Yeah.

We call him Jidu because in Arabic...

Jidu means grandfather or grandpa.

You sleep good?

Yeah.

He just loves everything about our family. He's so funny.

I was a mason. I became head of my lodge,

which became the master, the master of the lodge.

They used to refer to me as worshipful master.

My wife would tell me, "Worshipful master, take the

garbage out."

I was born in Brooklyn. In Methodist Hospital.

February 9th, 1929.

It's funny, before I married my wife I wanted to buy

a Cadillac convertible. It was between getting married or

buying a Cadillac. I got married instead.

Best thing I ever did, because she was a wonderful, wonderful

person.

I adopted my daughter Laura. She was one week old.

And that's who I'm living here with.

You couldn't ask for a better daughter than Laura.

I think you're ahead of me by one.

They take care of me like you wouldn't believe.

I want to live long enough to see my grandchildren grow.

Because I really am enjoying them.

Bye, Jidu. Bye.

I have about six more months left before...

...my whole life is gonna change.

I don't really talk about it that much, but...

...like it's not a secret that I'm trans.

And I don't really think it's gonna be a secret...

when I get my surgery.

So might as well be honest.

Going to school.

This guy has been hitting me up.

I don't think he knows... that I'm trans.

As a transgender woman, in my opinion,

for my own safety I tell them before I go out with them.

Like three years ago I never talked to anybody.

And I was like 15. I'm 18 now. And I was like, so shy.

And I was like...

I always felt like no one was ever gonna love me

because of it.

Or no one would ever want to even talk to me, not just love.

But like no one would ever even want to like consider me.

It made me cry because I can't really control that.

Like, it's how I was born, and like, it's not the only thing

that's... like that's not the only thing that defines me.

But like, I'm not gonna lie about it to someone.

Because like, that's just lying to myself too.

But I don't know. Like, I'm not worried about that.

I just like I don't... It's just not the right time for me I don't think.

My life's kinda normal. I go to work, go to school. That's it.

Into hell we go.

Oh.

Look cute today.

Video me, but not too close.

I look like a circle.

- Wait put this forward - First of all...

- No, like come over here - Wavy hair.

Aim it at her.

Move the chair. Move the chair up.

And then

Instead of going to my district high school,

I went into a trade school. It was just a relief to be able to

start over. And not have to worry about people seeing me

change and make comments on it and stuff.

So I just wanted a new slate, and introduce myself as Jane

to my peers and everyone.

So yeah, I'm in my senior year of high school now.

I do cinematography. We film here.

Me and my friends are all excited to just be, done.

We want to get out of here, get into college and just

move onto something else.

We're tired of being in Sparta and Sussex.

I'm gonna apply to SVA soon

and SVA is the School of Visual Arts.

And it's based in Manhattan, but they have schools all

around the world. Hopefully I get in there.

So that's gonna be exciting.

And... action.

How do you feel right now?

About what? Like about what?

Like about everything?

I feel... I don't know what you're like, referring to.

Okay, what do you think about me modeling?

I think it's a great opportunity.

Why do you have to talk like that?

Because I think it's a magnificent opportunity for her

to do this. Alright, restart.

Faith, why do you?

I think you can do whatever you put your mind to.

- That's what I think. - Alright

Are you homophobic?

I'm heterophobic.

I didn't talk to you freshman year.

Yeah, you really didn't.

Because I was intimidated by you.

I was like, "Her films are so good and mine

are not that good."

Films in general have always interested me

and I was always trying to be artistic in a way.

And this was always a way for me to escape my reality

when I was younger, cause even though I didn't know

I was trans, like I didn't like my life at the time,

because I didn't know who I was.

I was struggling a lot and I think film was a way

to escape that.

Jane wasn't very open to us, me and Lucy...

...for a little while, but um

like we weren't gonna ask or anything...

- Like that wasn't our business. - About being trans?

Yeah, like, that's not my business and I didn't care.

When was it? Sophmore year, Junior year? I don't know.

Get out of my way!

Earthquake.

Are you excited to go prom shopping?