Transgender Characters Who Have Changed TV Forever

The Fosters is a groundbreaking show in many ways — namely for its portrayal of a biracial lesbian couple raising foster kids — but the teen series also cast a nonbinary-identified actor, Tom Phelan, to play a transgender male named Cole struggling with his transition, while forced by the system to live in an all-girls home despite his identification as male. The show touches on many issues regarding transgender children in the system that are often overlooked.