![]() ![]() “TV is opening up a greater range of roles : Laverne played a lawyer on Doubt, and I’m playing a doctor - both roles haven’t really been seen before ,” Davis says. They were more than happy to help.”įor the L.A.-born Davis, also a singer-songwriter whose music has been featured on shows including MTV’s Pranked, seeing more inclusive storytelling in which trans characters are not sensationalized is a welcome change. I reached out to GLAAD for help in doing that because I am only an ally and not a member of LGBTQ community. “My goal as a storyteller was to help illuminate that experience as an ally. “Realizing that a trans person is like any other person with a journey in this lifetime - they are not victims, villains, weird or wrong they’re none of the things people believe when they support laws like the one that Trump put forward,” Vernoff says. ![]() Vernoff was moved by the experience and never forgot the feeling of love and acceptance she saw for Tom from Phelan and Ratner and those around them. Rater, Vernoff recalls, at the time sent a lengthy email to friends and family in which she posed questions and answers that they might have about her son. “When Tom transitioned, I found myself confused, frightened and bewildered by it all because I had never personally known a trans person what it meant for Tom,” Vernoff confesses. (Phelan and Rater’s son, Tom Phelan, played a trans character on Freeform’s GLAAD Award-winning drama The Fosters.) Those (married) friends were former Grey’s Anatomyshowrunners Tony Phelan and Joan Rater (whose son helped inspire Cox’s character on Doubt) and with whom Vernoff remains close after working with them as far back as season two of the Shondaland medical drama. But what Davis and Vernoff hope Grey’s can do is advance the types of storytelling featuring trans characters and actors. Just like Ellen’s coming out on her ABC comedy in 1997 proved to be a landmark moment in television and pop culture, transgender characters have become more common on the small screen: Showtime’s Shameless features trans actor Elliot Fletcher (who also played trans characters on Faking Itand The Fosters) in a romantic storyline with a gay character Orange Is the New Black star Laverne Cox made history last season as broadcast’s first openly trans actress playing a transgender series regular character (on CBS’ short-lived Doubt) and multiple trans actors have had roles on Amazon’s Transparent. I am so honored I got to say that line on TV because it’s a long time coming.” I’ve been waiting for a moment like this on TV my whole life. “I cried at the table read, it was very moving for me. “What’s cool about the show, the episode and Krista’s vision for this character is he’s about way more than being trans,” Davis says, noting that he sees Casey’s story as unexplored territory on the small screen. It’s a serious issue.”ĭavis, whose previous credits included episodes of 2 Broke Girls and NCIS: Los Angeles, says he knew when he was cast that he’d be playing a character with comedic sensibilities that come from a Sandra Oh-like level of directness - who also was transgender. “It wasn’t enough for people to understand what female-to-male is and it’s hard to have that changed in a lot of states. “A lot of people don’t understand what you mean when you say ‘mistake’ on a driver’s license - they think it’s a typo,” Davis tells THR. ![]() That’s when Casey discloses that there was a mistake on his driver’s license that wasn’t a typo: his local DMV declined to issue him a new license with his proper gender after he transitioned, so he hacked into the system and fixed it himself. Bailey is initially stunned as her background check on her new intern didn’t catch that very important fact. Thursday’s episode resolved the hospital’s cliffhanger from last year’s midseason finale as Casey confides in Bailey that he was arrested for hacking into the DMV’s computer system. ![]()
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