Doubts?

The new CBS legal drama Doubt premiered last night with transgender actress Laverne Cox in a prominent role. A long-time advocate for the transgender community, Laverne Cox made history as the first transgender actress to play a transgender series regular on a broadcast television show when the legal drama Doubt premiered on CBS Thursday night. While I was thrilled to see Laverne in the role, I wasn't so sure I was pleased when she explained to a client that yes, she used to be a man, but was now a woman. Somehow I had hoped the writers would let her play the character without ever mentioning she was transgender at all. However, Tony Phelan and Joan Rater, Grey's Anatomy alums and the husband-and-wife creators of Doubt , wrote the part of Cameron with Cox in mind. But they knew she was on Orange , so they assumed that she was unavailable, and were ready to conduct a nationwide talent search to find the person who was going to play Cam. . But Laverne Cox jump