Broadening a transgender tale that has only just begun

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/21/movies/broadening-a-transgender-tale-that-has-only-just-begun.html?_r=1

The New York Times/by Erik Piepenburg   06/19/2015

" What a difference it makes when an actual trans person plays the role. That was Laverne Cox's reflection in 2011 on how, after  years of intermittent visibility, transgender actors like herself were being cast more frequently in films and television as honest-to-goodness transgender characters."