Grey’s Anatomy to feature a “groundbreaking” transgender storyline with I Am Cait's Candis Cayne

The Hollywood Reporter

I Am Cait star and transgender actress Candis Cayne will play a transgender actress who undergoes what producers say is a "groundbreaking" vaginoplasty surgery, based on a real-life groundbreaking new procedure. “(The surgery) revolutionizes the making of a vagina and we thought that was a really cool story and Candis is playing a character inspired by something we read," says Grey's Anatomy showrunner Krista Vernoff. In 2007, Cayne became the first transgender actress to play a transgender character in primetime, on ABC’s Dirty Sexy Money, appearing in 11 episodes as a transgender woman who has an affair with a character played by Billy Baldwin. Cayne has also appeared on I Am Cait and Transparent.