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Bold, Beautiful—and Transgender: A Daytime Soap’s Radical Twist

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The Bold and The Beautiful surprised fans with the revelation that a main character was transgender. Its executive producer says the storyline will burn front and center.

In the extremely brilliant, camp 1991 movie Soapdish, which satirized the crazy world of the daytime soap, part of the high-pitched denouement saw the exposure of a transgender actress live on camera.

Montana Moorehead (Cathy Moriarty) was revealed—with the aid of a gormless yearbook picture—to be “Milton Moorehead.”

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