Batgirl has cast Tales of the City's Ivory Aquino as Alysia Yeoh, where she will represent the first transgender character in a DCEU film.As reported by Variety, both Aquino and Yeoh are trans. In the comics, Alysia Yeof is a bartender who also happens to be the best friend and one-time roommate of Barbara Gordon/Batgirl, and she first appeared in Batgirl Vol.