“To me, I feel like I was stuck in time for a minute,” she said of her casting on the show, for which she also expressed her gratitude. “When it came to anything to do with dysphoria or gender or stuff that was already really there, I was like, ‘no, it’s not for now.'”
Dorfman also compared the first year of sobriety — she’s been sober since she was 21, she told Bilson — to her first year of life as a trans woman and the milestones she’s taken. Only this time, she says, is she reaching those milestones very publicly.
“I felt like I had to do all those things again as a woman,” Dorfman said. “As my body takes on a new shape and form, more organically, like due to hormones, then I face new challenges.”
Dorfman had transitioned privately a year before his 2021 interview with Time. She called the announcement a “reintroduction of me as a woman.”