Norman Lear-produced comedy starring Laverne Cox, about an estranged father and daughter in Alabama, comes at an awkward political moment.

It’s been over a decade since Time magazine declared the so-called “transgender tipping point” with a photo of Laverne Cox on its May 2014 cover. At the time, Cox was a year into her tenure as Sophia Burset on the Netflix dramedy Orange is the New Black,

Maybe we understand that before she does since this homecoming tale starts with Harry processing the realization that the child he believed to be his son was, in fact, always his daughter. Other comedies might make this an ongoing refrain.