Modern Family First Show With Transgender Kid Actor

On Wednesday night, Modern Family will become the first television show to feature a transgender child actor. Eight-year-old Jackson Millarker stars in the episode as Tom, a transgender friend of Lily, the daughter of Cam (Eric Stonestreet) and Mitchell (Jesse Tyler Ferguson), NewNowNext reports. As Variety points out, transgender actors have appeared on other television shows including Orange Is the New Black and Nashville, but they've all been adults. Jazz Jennings, a trangender teen, has a reality show on TLC. (More Modern Family stories.)