Maines Biography
Nicole Maines is an actress, writer, and transgender rights activist from the United States who was the nameless plaintiff in Doe v. Regional School Unit 26 before the Maine Supreme Judicial Court before she became an actress. She claimed her school system could not refuse her access to the female restroom because she is transgender. The court’s 2014 decision was the first of its kind in a state court, holding that it is illegal to prevent transgender kids from using the restroom at school in accordance with their gender identity.
How old is Maines? Age
Born Nicole Amber Maines, the actress is 26 years old as of 7 October 2023. She was born in 1997 in Gloversville, New York, United States.
Who is Maines’ brother? Family – Education
In 1997, Kelly and Wayne Maines adopted Maines and her brother Jonas as identical twins; one of their biological parents was Kelly’s second cousin. Despite having grown up in Gloversville, New York, they were raised in Portland, Maine. From an early age, her brother Jonas came to terms with her gender identity. According to reports, Jonas said to their father, “Face it, Dad, you have a son and a daughter,” when the two were still in primary school.
Maines went at the University of Maine with her brother Jonas after graduating from Portland, Maine’s Waynflete School. Maines decided to pursue acting instead of going back in the fall of 2018, according to her father.
Maines Partner
Maines was given the gender “male” at birth and began exhibiting gender nonconformity at an early age. It has been said that at the age of two, Maines asked her mother questions like “When do I get to be a girl?” and “When will my penis fall off?” She liked to play with toys meant for girls and related to female cartoon and movie characters. Maines claimed that she began telling her family her true identity by the time she was four years old, having known since she was three that she was not a boy.
Maines Height
Nicole stands at a height of 5 feet 7½ inches(1.71 m).
Doe v. Regional School Unit 26
In the famous lawsuit Doe v. Regional School Unit 26, also known as Doe v. Clenchy, Maines used the name Susan Doe. When Maines was in the fifth grade at Asa Adams Elementary School in Orono, Maine in 2007, a male classmate’s grandfather lodged a complaint alleging that Maines was using the ladies’ restroom. She was made to use the staff restroom after that incident and was not allowed to use the female restroom.
Maines and her family filed a complaint against the Orono school district, now known as RSU 26, alleging the school was discriminating against her, with assistance from the Maine Human Rights Commission. The family filed a lawsuit against the school district because it did not respond to their complaint. Maines and her family were represented by the Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders of Boston when the case eventually reached the state Supreme Court in Bangor. The conflict between a 1925 statute mandating gender-segregated restrooms and a 2005 amendment to the Maine Human Rights Act outlawing discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation dominated the oral arguments.
The Maine Supreme Judicial Court found 5-1 in June 2014, holding that the school system had violated the state’s Human Rights Act by denying transgender kids access to toilets that corresponded with their gender identity. $75,000 in compensation was given to Maines and her family as a result of the discrimination action. For the first time in the country, a court declared that forcing a transgender student to use the restroom assigned to their biological sex was illegal. Additionally, the Maine Supreme Court interpreted amendments to the Maine Human Rights Act to forbid discrimination based on sexual orientation for the first time.
What is Maines doing now?
Author Amy Ellis Nutt of the Washington Post wrote a book titled Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family in 2015, which focused on Maines and her family. It follows Maines’ family as they come to terms with her gender identity. Maines portrayed a transgender adolescent whose hormones may be threatening her health when she featured on the USA Network series Royal Pains in June 2015. Maines was one of eleven people highlighted in the 2016 HBO documentary The Trans List. Maines and a number of other individuals share their individual experiences of being transgender in the documentary.
The announcement that Maines would make a series regular appearance in the fourth season of Supergirl on The CW was made in July 2018. She played the first transgender superhero on television in the role of Nia Nal, a distant relative of Dream Girl from Legion. A “soulful woman with a fierce drive to protect others” is how one character describes her. The character Kara takes under her wing is a reporter. She would play the same part in a final season episode of The Flash in 2023 and stay on the show until its conclusion in November of 2021. Maines won the best acting award at the Outfest Los Angeles LGBTQ Film Festival for her role in the horror film Bit, which is about queer female vampires, released in 2019.
Maines wrote the comic book origin story of Nia Nal/Dreamer, her Supergirl character, for DC Pride (comics) #1 in 2021. In 2022, it was revealed that she would also write a solo series on Dreamer. In addition, she co-wrote the narrative for Dreamer’s first appearance in the July 12, 2022, comic Superman: Son of Kal-El.
Maines Book
The 2015 book Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family by Amy Ellis Nutt, a Washington Post writer, popularized Maines by chronicling her family’s journey of accepting her gender identification. Numerous publications were written about the Maines family, with a lot of them emphasizing how one identical twin might be cisgender and the other transgender.
Maines Movies and TV Credits
Movies
♦ 2022 – Darby and the Dead
♦ 2019 – Bit
♦ 2017 – Not Your Skin
♦ 2016 – The Trans List
TV Shows
♦ 2023 – Yellowjackets
♦ 2023 – The Flash
♦ 2023 – The Freedom to Exist with Elliot Page
♦ 2022 – Good Trouble
♦ 2020 – Legends of Tomorrow
♦ 2018–2021 – Supergirl
♦ 2015 – Royal Pains