Amy Ellis Nutt - Zostać Nicole

2016, Amy Ellis Nutt, Nicole Maines, Polish,

This is the Polish language edition of "Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family", written by Amy Ellis Nutt, a health and science writer at The Washington Post.

Title in Polish: "Amy Ellis Nutt - Zostać Nicole. Metamorfoza amerykańskiej rodziny" (To become Nicole. Metamorphosis of the American family).

In the book introduction, we can read: "When Wayne and Kelly Maines adopted identical twin boys, they thought their lives were complete. But it wasn’t long before they noticed a marked difference between Jonas and his brother, Wyatt. Jonas preferred sports and trucks and many of the things little boys were “supposed” to like; but Wyatt liked princess dolls and dress-up and playing Little Mermaid. By the time the twins were toddlers, confusion over Wyatt’s insistence that he was female began to tear the family apart.  In the years that followed, the Maineses came to question their long-held views on gender and identity, to accept and embrace Wyatt’s transition to Nicole, and to undergo an emotionally wrenching transformation of their own that would change all their lives forever."

The book was very popular, so in 2016 there were two additional editions of the book and Nicole became a well-known transgender activist and actress. This is what we can read about her in Wikipedia: "Nicole Amber Maines is an American actress and transgender rights activist. Prior to her acting career, she was the anonymous plaintiff in the Maine Supreme Judicial Court case Doe v. Regional School Unit 26, in which she argued her school district could not deny her access to the female bathroom for being transgender. The court ruled in 2014 that barring transgender students from the school bathroom consistent with their gender identity is unlawful, the first such ruling by a state court.

According to Wikipedia, in June 2015, Nicole appeared on the USA Network show Royal Pains as a transgender teen whose hormones might be endangering her health. In 2016, Maines was one of 11 individuals featured in an HBO documentary titled The Trans List. In the documentary, Maines and several other people relate their personal stories of being transgender.

In July 2018, it was announced that Maines would appear as a series regular in the fourth season of The CW series Supergirl. She appeared as Nia Nal, a distant relative of Legion member Dream Girl, and played the first transgender superhero on television. Her character is described as a "soulful woman with a fierce drive to protect others".

In 2019, Maines starred in Bit, a horror movie about queer female vampires, winning the top acting prize at the Outfest Los Angeles LGBTQ Film Festival. In addition, she penned the comic book debut of her character from Supergirl, Nia Nal/Dreamer, for DC Pride (comics) #1 in 2021. She co-wrote the script for Dreamer's debut in the comic Superman: Son of Kal-El as well, which was released on July 12, 2022. In 2023, Maines was cast as Lisa in a recurring role in season two of the Showtime series Yellowjackets. Her character is an associate of adult Lottie who is trying to recover from past traumas.

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