are the actors on the foster really transgender
Transgender Teen Actor Tom Phelan Is Breaking Barriers, One Brooding Look at a Time. My heart leapt when I heard a transgender actor would be portraying a transgender character this month in ABC Family's The Fosters. I tuned in with even more glee than usual to a show that had already won me over with its portrayal of a mixed-race, same-gender couple filling a home with love and chosen family.