
"This is an evolution of Tommy. I’m becoming more Tommy."
In conversation with her friend, the novelist Torrey Peters, in TIME magazine, actor Tommy Dorfman reintroduced herself as a transgender woman on Thursday. "For a year now, I have been privately identifying and living as a woman — a trans woman," Dorfman said. She has documented her shifting style and appearance on Instagram in that time and offered no public explanation. But the speculation and comments about her body "began to feel overwhelming."