Tommy Dorfman has come out as a transgender girl. Study extra in regards to the Atlanta native who shot to fame on ’13 Causes Why.’
Tommy Dorfman, 29, is proudly owning her true self. The actress got here out as a trans girl in a July 22 interview with Time, the place she opened up about her transition. “For a 12 months now, I’ve been privately figuring out and dwelling as a girl — a trans girl,” stated Tommy, who now goes by she/her. The 13 Causes Why star went on to inform the publication, “It’s humorous to consider popping out, as a result of I haven’t gone wherever. I view in the present day as a reintroduction to me as a girl, having made a transition medically. Popping out is all the time considered as this grand reveal, however I used to be by no means not out.”
Tommy additionally revealed within the interview that regardless of transitioning, she intends to maintain her delivery identify, which honors her mother’s brother who died shortly after she was born. “I really like my identify, I need to maintain my identify and provides new life to my identify,” Tommy stated.
So who’s Tommy Dorfman? From her shut friendship with Kaia Gerber to her memorable position on 13 Causes Why, HollywoodLife has rounded up 5 key info to find out about Tommy.
1. Tommy Dorfman is BFFs with Kaia Gerber.
Cindy Crawford‘s look-a-like daughter Kaia Gerber is usually seen out-and-about with Tommy. The pair have been final seen stepping out for dinner in Los Angeles on July 31, 2020 — face masks on, after all — whereas aside of one another’s “quarantine bubble.” Pre-quarantine, the duo additionally confirmed off their seashore hangout in Jan. 2020! Posing of their swimsuits for a mirror selfie, Tommy captioned the pic “portrait of a respectful homosexual hand.”
2. Tommy is an actress.
Tommy is finest identified for her position as Ryan Shaver on Netflix’s in style drama 13 Causes Why alongside Brenda Sturdy, Ross Butler, and Dylan Minnette. She additionally performed Bobby in The CW’s Jane The Virgin and Nick on American Princess. Most not too long ago, she is credited for showing in Freeform’s mini-series Love within the Time of Corona. “We have been filming at my home, which was so much simpler than I believed it was going to be simply from a sensible standpoint of rolling away from bed and attending to work,” Tommy stated to HollywoodLife EXCLUSIVELY in regards to the venture. “No commute, which was nice. It ended up being actually intimate, and it was an area we’ve individually spent a variety of time in collectively simply as pals,” she added.
3. Tommy is Andi Dorfman’s cousin
Tommy isn’t the one well-known Dorfman! She’s a cousin of legal professional Andi Dorfman, 33, who starred within the 10th season of The Bachelorette. She made an look within the Bachelor universe once more throughout her runner-up Nick Viall‘s season and the pair made headlines for occurring a jog again in June 2020.
4. Tommy is from Atlanta.
Tommy was born on Could 13, 1992 in Atlanta, Georgia. After graduating highschool, she packed her luggage and headed to New York for school, the place she enrolled at Fordham College. Tommy studied drama, incomes her B.A. in Theatre Arts in 2015.
5. Tommy now identifies as a trans girl.
Tommy stated in her Time interview that she determined to announce her transition to a trans girl publicly in order that she might keep true to herself. “I’ve been dwelling on this different model of popping out the place I don’t really feel secure sufficient to speak about it, so I simply do it,” she stated. “However I acknowledge that transitioning is gorgeous. Why not let the world see what that appears like?”
Tommy additionally revealed within the interview that she was not with husband Peter Zurkuhlen, whom she married in Nov. 2016. ” I love him a lot, however we’ve been studying that as a trans girl, what I’m fascinated with shouldn’t be essentially mirrored in a homosexual man. So we’ve had unimaginable conversations to redefine our relationship as pals,” she stated. Tommy had beforehand come out as non-binary in 2017.