(CNN)Actress Tommy Dorfman came out as trans about a year ago. But she said she might have come out sooner if she hadn't starred in the popular Netflix series ``13 Reasons Why''.
"For me, it feels like I missed a minute," she said of her casting on the show, expressing her gratitude. "When it came to discomfort, sex, or anything about what really existed, I thought, 'No, it's not for now.' She's been sober since she was 21." , she told Bilson — through her first year of living as an out trans woman, and the milestones she reached.
"I felt I had to start all these things again as a woman. Then I faced new challenges."
} Dorfman had privately transitioned a year before his 2021 interview with Time. She called the announcement "a reintroduction to me as a woman."