QuoteAre we in the middle of a transgender renaissance? Of course not—a renaissance would require an original time when transgender men and women were treated with normalcy. But maybe we're heading down the path toward the first era where MTF and FTM folks won't be treated as outsiders, but just another demographic group children grow up with. Trailblazing the efforts are folks like The Real World: Brooklyn's Katelynn, who shows how a transgender person encounters the safe relationship and day-to-day drama as anyone else, as well as ABC's Ugly Betty and Dirty Sexy Money inclusion of MTFs as regular folks (though the characters on both shows have since left the screen). And then there's women like Patricia Araujo (real name Patricia Oliveira), the MTF model who just closed Rio's Fashion Week.