Miss Benny, who stars in the new Netflix series Glamorous opposite Kim Cattrall, has come out as transgender.
The 24-year-old actress, who got her start as a YouTuber, came out in an essay for Time.
“thank u @TIME for letting me write about my transition for the first time. 🦋 my pronouns are she/her. i am overwhelmed with hard-earned joy. happy pride ♥︎,” Miss Benny tweeted along with a link to the essay.
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In the essay, Miss Benny said she has been “privately living” as a transgender woman for the “last few years.”
“I’m one of those girls who grew up in a religious Texas household where queerness was totally not the vibe. I was homeschooled so as to not be exposed to anything that might tamper with the Christian faith my parents raised me in. But by 8 years old I was praying every night to wake up and somehow be like my sisters,” she said.
Miss Benny says she started her transition after watching the series Veneno.
“And so as time went by, I privately transitioned in my day-to-day life. It felt as if I had lived with a stuffy nose my whole life and then suddenly my breathing airways opened, and I discovered everybody else has been breathing freely the whole time. And now, I too can breathe and enjoy my life the same way everyone else does,” she said.
After getting a call that Netflix ordered Glamorous to series, Benny realized she couldn’t play Marco, a boy, in the series anymore.
“One day the creator of the show, Jordon Nardino, called me to discuss Marco’s character arc throughout the season. I met him at a bar in Silver Lake, and I told him about my transition. I knew this was different from the original plan, but I felt we could include this journey in the show by having Marco transition alongside my transition in real life. I braced myself for the worst, but instead we bonded over our love for Veneno and expressed how we both wanted to make something with that kind of importance,” Benny said.
She added, “It was really important that Marco’s trans-ness was not the plot of the show. It’s not a “twist” to surprise the audience. Instead, we get to watch a young queer person experiencing first love and heartbreak, career success and failure, and everything else that comes with being a young adult… while also discovering their identity in the background of life. Because being transgender is not something you do, it’s who you are.”
Read the full essay on Time.com.
Categories: Biography
Source: vcmp.edu.vn