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Eric Schaeffer — best known for his 1996 Sarah Jessica Parker film “If Lucy Fell,” two years before “Sex and the City” — was also ahead of the curve with his new project, “Boy Meets Girl.”

The rom-com stars transgendered Michelle Hendley, 23. “I wrote the film before it was such a hot topic — before Laverne Cox, ‘Orange Is the New Black,’ ‘Transparent,’” Schaeffer said.

He launched a casting search on Facebook because “you can’t call up CAA and say, ‘Send over your transgender actresses.’”

Hendley was a Missouri cosmetology student. Another film, “Tangerine,” about a transgender prostitute, was a breakout at Sundance, but Schaeffer says of his movie, “There are no hookers. It is an old-fashioned comedy fable.”