Laverne Cox Quotes

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• If someone needs to express their gender in a way that is different, that is okay, and they should not be denied healthcare. They should…
• There's not just one trans story. There's not just one trans experience.
• I think transwomen, and transpeople in general, show everyone that you can define what it means to be a man or woman on your own…
• Justice is what love looks like in public.
• When I was perceived as a black man I became a threat to public safety. When I was dressed as myself, it was my safety…
• It is revolutionary for any trans person to choose to be seen and visible in a world that tells us we should not exist.
• I was assigned male at birth, is the way I like to put it, because I think we're born who we are and the gender…
• When a trans woman gets called a man, that is an act of violence.
• When people have points of reference that are humanizing, that demystifies difference.
• Many in the trans community are fed up with L.G.B.T. organizations that continue to erase trans identity or just give lip service to trans issues.…
• Each and every one of us has the capacity to be an oppressor. I want to encourage each and everyone of us to interrogate how…
• If you have a problem with people living their lives and being authentically who they are, you really should go and do some soul-searching.
• Believing that you are unworthy of love and belonging or that who you are authentically is a sin or is wrong, is deadly.
• I'm a Self-made Woman in Every Sense of the Word
• We are born as who we are, the gender thing is something that is imposed on you.
• I would never be so arrogant to think that someone should model their life after me. But the idea of possibility the idea that I…
• There are lessons in everything. The bad, the good. Our job is to listen, and to continue to learn, so that maybe we get better…
• I'm terrified of saying the wrong thing on stage with bell hooks.
• We shouldn't demonize the woman who wears high heels and we shouldn't demonize the woman who doesn't wear high heels. We should accept all forms…
• Healthcare for trans women is a necessity. It is not elective. It is not cosmetic. It is life saving.

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