The other runaways misgender Cole and he also gets beat up in public while trying to use a men’s restroom. Tom Phelan as Cole in The FostersĬole is the only transgender member of Girls United, the group home for runaway youth assigned female at birth. Aaron’s relationship with Callie in the The Fosters was one of the first-ever trans romances on a teen drama. In Season 7 of Shameless, he played Trevor, a gay love interest to Ian, a main character who doesn’t initially realize that Trevor is trans. He played a rival performer and eventual gay love interest to Shane in MTV’s Faking It.
