Jeffrey Tambor was pretty sure he was about to get decked.

The Emmy-winning actor, who plays transgender female Maura Pfefferman on TV’s Transparent, noticed a man staring at him hard on a plane.

‘I was getting off the plane – and he (pointed at me). And I said, “Here it comes, here it comes. This guy’s gonna just lay me out,”‘ Tambor told Seth Meyers on NBC’s Late Night this week.

The man continued pointing saying ‘You! You!’

Then, he made contact.

‘He grabbed me and he said: ‘You! Thank you.Thank you for teaching me about something I did not know.’

Relieved and touched, Tambor cites this as an example of shifting attitudes: ‘The world is changing. They’re not going to stand for this hatred. They’re not going to stand for this nonsense and this misgendering and all of this crap. It’s a brand new world.’