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. “She loved the show and us and the character, but sometimes she wasn’t in the mood to be everyone’s favorite trailblazer.”

“Transparent” followed the lives of the Pfeffermans, a Jewish family in Los Angeles, whose world shifts when the parent they’ve always known as Mort comes out as a transge

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