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‘Supergirl’s’ Nicole Maines Wants to Evolve Trans Roles: ‘Trans Characters Can Be Less Than Perfect’

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By Audrey Cleo Yap As Nia Nal/Dreamer on The CW’s “Supergirl,” Nicole Maines has played TV’s first transgender superhero since the show’s fourth season.

But for the trans rights activist and actor, progress is the chance to play a villain. “I think it’s that more and more trans characters [can] be less than perfect and be a–holes and be the villains,” Maines, who is featured in this year’s Power of Pride list, tells Variety via phone from Austin, Texas, where she is quarantining with her family. “We can look at them, and be like, ‘They’re just people.

They make poor choices. They can be bad people. They can be not nice.’ Trans-ness is not a person. A person is not identified by their trans-ness.” She has relished evolving Dreamer, a

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