CONWAY — Transgender activist and actor Nicole Maines knew she was a girl around the age of 3 or 4.
“My case is kind of unique because I have a twin brother (Jonas),” she told Ellen Degeneres during an appearance on “Ellen” in 2018. “So, growing up with him, he was identifying with all these male things and feeling very comfortable in his body, and I wasn’t.”
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"Becoming Nicole," by Amy Ellis Nutt, is the One Book One Valley community read. Nutt will be at Loynd Auditorium at Kennett High School in North Conway on Thursday, Oct. 24. (COURTESY OF RANDOM HOUSE)
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Nicole Maines as Nia Nal/Dreamer in the season five premiere of "Supergirl," which airs on The CW on Sunday, Oct. 6. (DEAN BUSCHER/THE CW)
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Nicole Maines stars as a transgender teen who falls in with four queer feminist vampires in Brad Michael Elmore's "Bit." (COURTESY OF PROVOCATOR)
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