First Look At Supergirl’s Trans Superhero

Supergirl has revealed pictures of its first transgender superhero, Dreamer, reports Gizmodo.

The CW released a first look of the character, complete in her superhero costume ready for action. She is set to appear for the first time on the show on February 17.

Her super power is the ability to see into the future.

Nicola Maines will play Dreamer, she herself is an openly transgender actress. She discussed her transition and being bullied in school in an interview with Ellen DeGeneres: “I really started thinking something wasn’t right. My case was kind of unique because I have an identical twin brother and so growing up with him, he was identifying with all these male things and he was feeling very comfortable in his body.

“As soon as I could, I tried to voice to my parents that something’s off.

“(My father) blocked that out. He ignored it. He focused on his hobbies, and that left my mother on her own for a while. She didn’t grow up with the same expectations that my father did.

 “[When I was bullied at school] he really stepped up and he said, ‘I don’t get this, but I love my child and I’m going to protect my child. Whatever it takes’.”

“When I would ride the bus — I couldn’t take the bus anymore — because kids would refer to me as ‘it’ on the bus.

“Then in fifth grade it really kind of peaked. A male student in my class’ grandfather was a part of a special interest Christian right group, and he had his grandson follow me into the girls’ bathroom and he said, ‘My grandfather says we don’t have to have any faggots in our school.’”

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