The Bold and The Beautiful - Transgender story the NEXT FRONTIER

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Soap opera characters tend to have many surprising secrets up their sleeves, but CBS' long-running soap The Bold and the Beautiful unveiled a groundbreaking shocker for one of its characters Wednesday.

"She's a transgendered woman," said actress Karla Mosley of her character Maya Avant, a model who is currently dating Rick Forrester on the storied soap.☆☆ "This is just the next frontier.☆☆ It's the next community that deserves to be recognized and respected in our media."

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Maya has been keeping her secret under wraps until her younger sister Nicole (Reign Edwards) arrived in town and threatened to expose that her older sister was once her older brother Myron. While Maya is fearful of the truth coming out, Mosley was ☆☆thrilled to learn about the surprising development for her character. (More...)


Luke 17:25-29, 32-33 KJV

But first must he suffer many things, and be rejected of this generation.    And as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.    They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.    Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;    But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.    Remember Lot's wife.    Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it.

☆☆"This is the kind of opportunity that I've prayed for," the actress told ET, "to make ☆☆change in the world through my art in a ☆☆big way."

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Mosley acknowledges that "20 years ago this would be a different story," but embraced the opportunity to tackle the groundbreaking role, speaking to transgender friends about how to tell Maya's story. She told ET that she hopes what she learned will impact viewers of the show.ttp://m.etonline.com/tv/161360_bold_and_the_beautiful_star_karla_mosley_on_transgender_storyline_this_is_the_next_frontier/

[Psalm 51:17]

Mosley acknowledges that "20 years ago this would be a different story," but embraced the opportunity to tackle the groundbreaking role, speaking to transgender friends about how to tell Maya's story. She told ET that she hopes what she learned will impact viewers of the show

20 years ago, Hellywood was conditioning the masses over films with transgender characters - remember 1992's "The Crying Game"? Where a bombshell was dropped in the last act of the movie?(I didn't see the movie, no) And they've made other movies over the years which featured transgender characters, as well as those cartoons showing male characters dressing in drag.

Ultimately, no surprise that the whole transgender movement is in the mainstream now.