Tommy Dorman is engaged.
The “13 Reasons Why” alum told Rachel Bilson on the “OC” alum’s “Broad Ideas” podcast that her unnamed partner is a cis woman and calls her new fiancé “just a gay girl.”
Dorfman, 30, gushed that the romance is “very affirmative” and that she “wants to spend the rest of her life” [her] live” with her love.
The actress went on to describe her decision to date women after she split from ex-husband Peter Zurkuhlen.
“I knew I was interested in women in a way I hadn’t been aware of since high school,” she explained. “I had an unresolved, unexplored thing.
“I was like, ‘This is the year I go on a few dates with girls and feel that again, and I’m not ashamed of it,'” she continued.
Dorfman married the 34-year-old entrepreneur in 2016, telling Time magazine five years later that they had been “redefined.” [their] relationship as friends” after her transition.
“It’s wild being 29 and going through puberty again. Some days I feel like I’m 14. As a result of that shift, the types of romantic partnerships I seek are different,” the “Sharp Stick” star told the outlet in July 2021, seven months before Zurkuhlen filed for divorce.
“I was in a nine-year relationship where I was seen as a more masculine person, with a gay man,” she added. “I love him so much, but we’ve learned that as a trans woman what I’m interested in is not necessarily reflected in a gay man.”
Dorfman stepped down privately a year before the interview, but told Bilson Monday she would have made the decision “much sooner” had it not been for her role in “13 Reasons Why” as Ryan Shaver.
“I think because [of] my work was so tied to my body and face and, like, identity … it slowed down some of my growth and maturation in my mid-20s,” said the Fordham University graduate.
Dorfman noted that she “compartments”[d]the parts of herself that question her gender identity as she plays the gay cisgender man.
“For me, I feel like I was stuck on time for a minute,” she continued. “When it came to something about dysphoria or gender or things that were already really there, I was like, ‘No, that’s not for now.'”