13 Reasons Why actress Tommy Dorfman looks chic in a patterned dress on coffee outing in NYC

13 Reasons Why actress Tommy Dorfman was spotted enjoying a coffee outing with pals on Thursday afternoon in New York City. 

The 29-year-old Netflix star beat the sweltering heat in a patterned dress and sipped on an iced beverage while perched outside a coffee spot. 

Tommy recently re-introduced herself to the world as a trans-woman with pronouns of she/her in a moving conversation with TIME, after grappling with the idea of transitioning for ‘many years.’ 

Tommy played with soft and edgy accents with her look as she wore a cap sleeved powder blue dress adorned with a landscape scene and a pair of black platform sneakers. 

She carried a black purse with a gold chain around her shoulder and clutched a refreshing iced black coffee in hand. 

Her hair was tied back in a low ponytail and she donned stylish cat eye sunglasses while walking with two equally cool-looking friends. 

After the trio enjoyed a brief reprieve from pounding the pavement they were seen soaking up the rest of the day in each other’s company.   

Last week the Atlanta-born Netflix star spoke about making the decision to transition and proclaimed: ‘For a year now, I have been privately identifying and living as a woman—a trans woman.’ 

‘You know, some people moved houses during the pandemic, some people changed genders,’ she said with a laugh later adding that she had started to ‘transition medically.’ 

‘For many years I wanted to start transitioning and I just couldn’t. It felt really daunting and really scary to embark on that journey,’ she confessed citing her budding career in Hollywood as a source of worry. 

Dorfman said the pandemic afforded her time to really look inward and envision what she wanted her life to look like 40 years from now. ‘All I could see was a woman,’ the Love in the Time of Corona actress said.

And when it comes to her stacked list of future projects which include directing an adaptation of the book I Wish You All The Best, starring in a Channel 4 series called Fracture and her first role as a female in Lena Dunham’s movie Sharp Stick, she said she’s excited to play female characters. 

‘It’s impossible for me to separate my personal and professional transition, because my body and face are linked to my career…everything I’ve done up until the last year has been in the wrong body, and not in my truth.’ 

Dorfman has been married to Peter Zurkhulen since 2016 but said that as she’s settled into her identity as a trans-woman things have romantically shifted. 

‘I was in a nine-year relationship in which I was thought of as a more male-bodied person, with a gay man. I love him so much, but we’ve been learning that as a trans woman, what I’m interested in is not necessarily reflected in a gay man. So we’ve had incredible conversations to redefine our relationship as friends.’