'I was just figuring out how to say 'f*ck it' and be myself in the audition room, and not care about what others thought.'
and has also appeared in a number of films and web series. They're also training to do silks at a circus-performer school. Before they came out, acting was "fun and playful, and a place for me to dress up pretty and pretend I was someone else," they tell.
"This year, in more 'mainstream' castings, I’ve started to see 'nonbinary' listed in breakdowns, which is encouraging,” adds Theo. Jayna Ledford, meanwhile, has been struggling with the very binary world of dance since she was a small child in Indianapolis, when she wanted to wear a leotard, the same as all the girls in her class. "I was just thinking [that] we all had to wear the same uniform," she says.
Likewise, Ryan Cassata used to be afraid to show any trace of humor in his public persona, because he needed to be taken seriously as a trans activist. But this past year, he's been showing off his goofier side online. Overall, these performers have found power in owning their identity. about how to give Nia a trans identity that's different than her own. For Nicole, the goal of having more trans representation in media is to reach a place "where we can have more individual trans characters with their own stories. They don't have to represent the entire community, they can just represent their own experience."
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