Mya Taylor becomes first transgender performer to win major film award
Yesterday (February 27), Mya Taylor was awarded the Film Independent Spirit Award for her work in ‘Tangerine’, becoming the first transgender performer to win a high-profile Hollywood award.
Winning Best Supporting Female, Taylor beat ‘H.”s Robin Bartlett, ‘Anomalisa”s Jennifer Jason Leigh, ‘Glass Chin”s Marin Ireland, and ‘James White”s Cynthia Nixon.
In her acceptance speech, Taylor said: “There is transgender talent. There’s very beautiful transgender talent. So, you better get it out there and put it in your next movie.”
According to The Huffington Post, Taylor isn’t the first transgender performer to earn an Independent Spirit nomination. Harmony Santana was a 2012 nominee for the drama ‘Gun Hill Road’.
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