{"id":30579,"date":"2021-07-23T18:15:50","date_gmt":"2021-07-23T18:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/?post_type=articles&#038;p=30579"},"modified":"2021-07-23T18:15:50","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T18:15:50","slug":"tommy-dorfman-trans-woman-time","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/tommy-dorfman-trans-woman-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Tommy Dorfman Comes Out As A Trans Woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_30580\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30580\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-30580\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/07\/image-e1627063135165.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Tommy Dorfman\" width=\"1024\" height=\"579\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30580\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tommy Dorfman (Photo: Gizelle Hernandez for Time)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>13 Reasons Why<\/em> star Tommy Dorfman has come out as a <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/glaads-studio-responsibility-index-2021\/\">trans woman<\/a>. Or rather, as she tells friend and <em>Detransition Baby <\/em>author Torrey Peters in a <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/6081874\/tommy-dorfman-interview\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Time Magazine<\/em> Q&amp;A<\/a>, she\u2019s \u201creintroducing\u201d herself.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI view today as a reintroduction to me as a woman, having made a transition medically,\u201d Dorfman says. \u201cComing out is always viewed as this grand reveal, but I was never not out. Today is about clarity: I am a trans woman. My pronouns are she\/her. 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font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CRoiQLlDmKu\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none;\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\">A post shared by tommy dorfman (@tommy.dorfman)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>As Peters points out in her intro to the conversation, Dorfman\u2019s self-presentation has evolved noticeably recently. Dorfman began using they\/them pronouns and identifying as non-binary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.refinery29.com\/en-us\/2017\/11\/180981\/13-reasons-why-tommy-dorfman-gender-equality\" target=\"_blank\">publicly<\/a> around 2017, and her style reflected that fluidity. But more recently her look has skewed more and more feminine. She\u2019s grown her hair out and posted photos in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CJeNJzjjjez\/\" target=\"_blank\">bras<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/COxu112jRu6\/\" target=\"_blank\">bikini tops<\/a>. But the <em>Time <\/em>interview marks the first time she spoken publicly about her transition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been living in this other version of coming out where I don\u2019t feel safe enough to talk about it, so I just do it,\u201d she tells Peters. \u201cI recognize that transitioning is beautiful. Why not let the world see what that looks like? So I kept, on Instagram, a diaristic time capsule instead\u2014one that shows a body living in a more fluid space.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dorfman and Peters also discuss the burdensome notion that trans people should disappear and reemerge as someone completely different rather than transition publicly. \u201cIt\u2019s completely unrealistic and unsustainable, especially when trans people are some of the most disenfranchised and disadvantaged people,\u201d Dorfman says.<\/p>\n<p>And Dorfman clarifies why she\u2019s not changing her name: she\u2019s named after her mother\u2019s late brother, to whom she still feels connected. \u201cThis is an evolution of Tommy,\u201d she explains. \u201cI\u2019m becoming more Tommy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dorfman isn\u2019t the first celeb to come out in <em>Time<\/em>. Recently, the magazine seems to have become the go-to outlet for trans actors to reintroduce themselves to the public. Josie Totah wrote an essay for the magazine in 2018 revealing that she is trans, and <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/elliot-page-swimsuit\/\">Elliot Page<\/a> appeared on the <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/ellen-page-transgender-elliot\/\">cover<\/a> in March, giving his first interview since coming out as trans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29097,"featured_media":30580,"template":"","format":"standard","categories":[23,38,2006,16],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v18.5 (Yoast SEO v20.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Tommy Dorfman Comes Out As A Trans Woman<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"13 Reasons Why star Tommy Dorfman has come out as a trans woman. 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