actor who plays maddie I saw the TV glow Name changed. The non-binary star, who was born Bridget Lundy-Paine, announced on Tuesday that from now on they will be known as Jack Haven.

"I'm changing my name and now it's Jack Haven," they wrote. The actor, who has long been open about his non-binary identity, changed his name in reference to his great-grandfather Haven Gillespie, who wrote "Santa Clause Is Coming to Town" to Town).

"The name Jack is here to stay," Harvin wrote on Instagram. “I started using this name two years ago during a workshop led by @saman_arastoo.”

"I said I was using it in a safe place. Saman said I was using it in a dangerous place. So I used it in the men's room," they added.

The "dangerous space" Harvin refers to may also refer to today's United States. President Donald Trump signed an executive order "recognizing both genders, male and female," when he was sworn in on Monday.

Trump later signed an executive order banning federal recognition of transgender Americans. The order would ban anything other than birth sex from government-issued identification such as passports, exempt transgender people from legal protections prohibiting sex discrimination, and end funding for gender reassignment surgeries for federal prisoners.

Haven first announced they were non-binary back in 2019, saying they had been "using they/them" pronouns and felt good about it. They wrote on Instagram at the time that I "always felt like I was a little bit boy, a little bit girl, and neither." go out. They had come out as queer the year before.

Haven began to be recognized for her acting after starring as Casey Gardner in the Netflix series atypicalthey play the older siblings of a boy with autism. On the show, Kathy explores their sexuality. Most recently, Haven received widespread praise for her role in the film Maddy. I saw the TV glowwhich Harvin describes as a trans fable.

"I think it's always been a trans story," they told CBR, adding, "I think it's cool because it's rooted in what it means to be trans and ruin your life, What it means to choose to be transgender or to choose to be trans” is not, and it’s a slow death, like what happens to Irving’s character, Justice’s character, but it also feels like a true fantasy story. "

"In order to act in a movie or to believe in a movie, you have to experience the fantasy reality for them," they added. "So a lot of it for me was figuring out how to understand that this was really happening to McGrady, like actually going back on a TV show and burying herself alive."