In this gentle meditation on fatherhood, brotherhood and manhood, five fathers of trans children join Dennis Shepard – the father of slain gay college student Matthew Shepard – for a weekend fishing trip in rural Oklahoma. As the men cast their lines into the river, they find common ground across racial, geographical and generational lines: their unconditional love for their children.
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00:00 So many trans families don't make it because the dads aren't on board.
00:06 They gotta fucking figure out why they're afraid.
00:10 Dads have that masculine image they want to try and keep up.
00:24 They have to get out and speak.
00:26 They have to show people that they support their child 100%.
00:32 It was important for me, as a father, to speak out.
00:36 The thread that connects us all is that we love our children
00:40 and are willing to put everything on the line for other people's children as well.
00:46 In some ways it's gotten a lot better and in other ways it's also a very scary time.
00:51 We all need to get back into the fight.
00:53 We're not doing it with our heads bowed.
00:56 We're doing it with a full-throated support of this movement.
01:00 We're letting people know we're here.
01:02 We're not going to shy away. We're not going to be in the shadows.
01:04 We're not going to be scared.
01:06 We're going to confront this head-on because that's all we can do.
01:09 We have to make the way safe for our children.
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