Nicole Maines

Nicole Amber Maines (born October 7, 1997 in Gloversville , New York ) is an American actress and activist for transgender rights.

Transgender rights activist

Nicole knew at the age of 3 that she was transgender. When she was in elementary school, the grandfather of a classmate filed a complaint against her because she used the girls' toilet. The school refused to allow her to continue using the girls' bathroom, whereupon her family brought the school to the Maine Supreme Judicial Court with a complaint . The case is as Doe v. Regional School Unit 26 known. Nicole will go down in history as the first to successfully receive a legal notice from the court that it is against human rights to deny access to the school toilet to a transgender student whose gender he / she feels assigned .

Nicole is the first transgender superhero to be featured on television. She plays the character of Nia Nal in the series Supergirl , a transgender woman whose mother comes from an extraterrestrial planet and from whom she has inherited the super power to see the future.

family

Nicole and her identical twin brother Jonas were adopted by Kelly and Wayne Maines. One of the biological parents was Kelly's second cousin. Nicole was assigned the male gender at birth and had a different maiden name, but she already knew at the age of 3 that she definitely did not feel assigned to this gender. Nicole and Jonas were born in Gloversville, New York and grew up in Portland , Maine .

Filmography

2015: Royal Pains (TV series, episode 7x08)
2016: The Trans List (Documentation)
2017: Not Sour Skin (Documentation)
since 2018: Supergirl (TV series)

Web links

Nicole Maines in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

↑ TheEllenShow: 'Supergirl's' New Star Nicole Maines Talks Growing Up Transgender. Retrieved December 24, 2018 .
↑ ABC News: How Identical Twin Boys Became Brother and Sister. October 19, 2015, accessed December 24, 2018 .
↑ Lisa Miller: 'Becoming Nicole,' by Amy Ellis Nutt . In: The New York Times . November 6, 2015, ISSN 0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed December 24, 2018]).

personal data
SURNAME	Maines, Nicole
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Maines, Nicole Amber (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	american actress
DATE OF BIRTH	October 7, 1997
PLACE OF BIRTH	Gloversville , United States

[1] TheEllenShow: 'Supergirl's' New Star Nicole Maines Talks Growing Up Transgender. Retrieved December 24, 2018 .

[2] ABC News: How Identical Twin Boys Became Brother and Sister. October 19, 2015, accessed December 24, 2018 .

[3] Lisa Miller: 'Becoming Nicole,' by Amy Ellis Nutt . In: The New York Times . November 6, 2015, ISSN 0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed December 24, 2018]).