The Star Trek universe is welcoming their first explicitly Non-binary and Trans characters in season three of Star Trek Discovery.
The announcement, made on startrek.com is a major step forward for inclusive casting as the characters are to be portrayed by Non-binary and Trans actors.The non-binary character is named Adira, a young confident person with memory loss and is portrayed by Blu del Barrio who told GLAAD that landing the role helped them navigate coming out as non-binary “When I got the call that I’d been cast as Adira, I hadn’t yet told the majority of my friends and family that I was non-binary.
I had only recently discovered the word and realized that it described how I’d felt for a long time. I knew I wanted to tell my.