Carrie Soloway, inspiration for trailblazing trans Jewish protagonist of ‘Transparent,’ dies at 88

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Carrie Soloway, a Jewish psychiatrist in Chicago whose late-in-life coming out as a transgender woman formed the basis for her children's hit Amazon TV series “Transparent,” died Nov. 21 at the age of 88.Her death was announced this week on social media by Soloway's children, Joey and Faith, who wrote she passed from natural causes.“She was very humble in terms of publicity; she wasn't interested in it,” Joey Soloway, the creator of “Transparent,” wrote in a statement announcing Carrie's death.