Is transgender culture having a moment?
More than a moment, most likely. Raised social awareness of trans issues is taking immovable effect on the media landscape, and nowhere is that more apparent than on our television menus.

What should I be watching?
Three seasons in, Netflix’s Orange Is the New Black remains a vital examination of female identity across cis and trans lines — and made Laverne Cox the first trans performer to land an Emmy nomination. Trans issues took centre stage in Amazon’s Golden Globe-winning Transparent last year, a funny, compassionate study of a Los Angeles family adjusting to the late-in-life transition of Jeffrey Tambor’s paterfamilias.

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Caitlyn Jenner? That may be coincidental, but the former Olympic athlete is getting in on the TV action too. I Am Cait, an eight-part series chronicling her transition, debuts on E! later this month. If you’d prefer a documentary without any Kardashian affiliation (Jenner was married to the Kardashians’ mother, Kris), Amazon recently premiered This Is Me, a series of short, culturally diverse trans portraits.

Anything closer to home?
The BBC’s Boy Meets Girl is set to be their first transgender-focused sitcom. Commissioned via a Writersroom search for trans-focused scripts, it will follow the relationship between a cisgender man and an older trans woman, with trans comedian Rebecca Root in the lead.

Are the movies following suit?
You bet. Sean Baker’s micro-budget indie, Tangerine – an exuberant study of transgender prostitutes, crisply shot on an iPhone 5s – was a Sundance sensation. And in January, the recent Oscar winner Eddie Redmayne stars in Tom Hooper’s prestige biopic The Danish Girl, playing the artist Lili Elbe, one of the first known recipients of sexual reassignment surgery. If the fusty old Academy goes for it, trans culture’s time on the fringes may truly be over.