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Tommy Dorfman said he would have made the transition sooner if it hadn't been for 13 Reasons Why.

(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''.

If she hadn't booked the job, I think she would have started her transition sooner," Dorfman told Rachel Bilson. said on the podcast"Broad Ideas." “My work [sic] is so tied to my body, my similar face, my similar identity, and whatever I was identified with, that I was in my mid-20s.
Dorfman was cast in 13 Reasons Why at the age of 24 and said she was battling gender dysphoria even then. However, in this series, her controversial but widely watched teen drama that premiered in 2017, Dorfman played a gay and cisgender man. .

"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."