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Our Lady J made her-story when she became the show's first transgender writer.

\"No pressure at all, being the only out trans woman,\" Lady J told \"GMA.\" \"It was a lot of pressure actually.\"

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PHOTO: Inside Our Lady J's dressing room before her performance at Lincoln Center in New York on Saturday Feb. 15, 2020.
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Our Lady J said there was a little less pressure when she joined the \"Pose\" writers' room. The hit Ryan Murphy series about the ballroom community in the '80s and '90s has the largest transgender cast of a scripted TV show.

\"There are more trans people working in Hollywood than ever,\" Our Lady J said. \"Ryan Murphy insisted on two transgender writers for 'Pose,' so Janet Mock and myself are both in the writers' room.\"

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PHOTO: Our Lady J gets her makeup done for her performance at New York's Lincoln Center on Saturday, Feb. 15, 2020.
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While music is Our Lady J's first love, she has the opportunity to tell her story through shows like \"Pose.\"

She wrote her experience of testing positive for HIV into the show when Billy Porter's character Pray Tell finds out he has the disease.

\"I had all the bad information that everyone else had about HIV,\" she said. \"It's a lot of educating that I have to do, it became so exhausting, I thought there has to be a better way, give me a bigger microphone, let me put this on TV, so I did.\"

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PHOTO: Our Lady J getting ready for her debut performance at Lincoln Center on Saturday Feb. 15, 2020, in New York.
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Our Lady J went from fear of surviving to absolutely thriving.

She has been nominated for an Emmy and Golden Globe, she's collaborated with Sia, and been praised by Dolly Parton, just to name a few!

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Our Lady J couldn't contain her excitement about getting to return to the piano to perform a catalog of new music to a sold-out show at Lincoln Center.

\"It's music that requires listening,\" Our Lady J said. \"Some music you can bob along to, but my music requires you to open up your mind and ears and listen.\"

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PHOTO: Our Lady J is the first out trans woman to be hired in a TV writers' room.
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Editor's note: This was originally published on Feb. 20, 2020.

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