Before the series Transparent, Jill Soloway was a feminine-presenting straight lady with a husband and two kids. She was, by all appearances, the model of the typical American family—albeit one with more than its share of success. Before striking out on her own, Soloway wrote for Six Feet Under, among other shows.
But over the course of making Transparent—which is based on Soloway’s own family’s experience of a parent transitioning later in life—Soloway changed as well. Today, Soloway identifies as queer, masculine of center, and nonbinary, and prefers the pronoun “they.” Their new book, She Wants It: Desire, Power, and Toppling the Patriarchy, is in part about this transformation, and also about how creating Transparent and becoming a part of the queer community opened their eyes to a whole other way of living.
