Jules Vaughn

Jules Vaughn is a fictional character in the American television drama series Euphoria on HBO. Part of the main cast for all three seasons and the specials, Jules is depicted as a junior in high school who moves from Los Angeles to the fictional suburb East Highland. As a young adult she drops out of art school when she starts sugar dating. Jules is portrayed by Hunter Schafer as an eclectic, free-spirited, chaotic but kind girl next door. Euphoria's lead Rue Bennett (Zendaya) uses Jules as a replacement for her opiate addiction, causing strain in their romance. Since before the show's beginning Jules used the app Scruff to have casual sex with usually older men. This trait is exploited by Nate Jacobs (Jacob Elordi) to catfish her, extract nudes for blackmail and stop her revealing her hook up with his closeted father. Once in senior year, she cheats on Rue with Elliot (Dominic Fike), who informs her of the former's relapse. Jules relays this to Rue's mother, causing a violent breakup. Despite this they rekindle the relationship in their early twenties, but Rue dies of a drug overdose. Schafer worked with showrunner Sam Levinson to make sure Jules' transgender life was accurate. This includes co-writing "Fuck Anyone Who's Not a Sea Blob", an episode which focused on Jules in therapy describing her experiences in womanhood. Her role as one of the few transgender youth represented positively in mass media has garnered critical acclaim. The character was praised by Vulture for not being a victim of violence like most trans women on screen. At the time of season 1, transsexual people on television were rare (GLAAD found only seventeen in the two years preceding), as were trans actors playing them. Jules has thus been noted as a turning point in media...