Laverne Cox

It's a small group.

Laverne Cox in Orange is the New Black like 10 years ago.

Yeah.

But I think you're right.

So in that way, I think it was important because it brought visibility.

And didn't Laverne Cox repost?

Laverne Cox reposted.

Patricia Arquette commented.

Yes.

They stopped, but they used to.

I just saw something that Laverne Cox posted.

She said 90% of her income is gone from when it was popping for her.

And she said if 90% of Laverne Cox's income is gone, imagine how bad it is for the other trans and non-binary creators out there.

My perspective... always even with all of that because there was a time where it was booming where it was like you would get a brand deal from target or you'd get a brand deal from this brand or whatever we

can never go back to it was

you know, view of my trans, of where we are in the world.

And I saw, you know, Laverne Cox on the cover of Time and everything like that.

And I was going, holy shit.

And it's like, I saw she was on Twitter.

And then she followed me and started reposting me and saying, saying, girl, you have to keep telling you got to tell the story.

You got to keep telling your story.

And I was like, so I always blame it on Laverne Cox for me to start being on the Internet.

So if you have a problem with me, it's her fault.

OK, so this goes along with there actually are trans actors now.

Elliot Page was one of them and was Laverne Cox, the one who was in the really bad Rocky Horror Picture Show remake.

they were complaining they weren't getting phone calls anymore because I think the boomerang is definitely taking, it used to be a privilege Or you get privilege points for being trans a couple of years ago.

And now it's like, yeah, we tried that and it didn't work and people hated it.

I think it was either HBO or Netflix, and I found it pretty easy to go right by it.

So one of those and one of the characters in that was a man presenting as a woman, a transgender woman, Laverne Cox, a very famous actor.

and and so the zeitgeist at that time and this wasn't even on my radar right this whole idea of you know transgender and boys and girls sports men and women's prisons wouldn't have been on a lot of people's radars but it would be seen that that would be it would be okay right to have these men who think they're women in prison i don't know be the right thing to do the character in orange is the new black um Laverne Cox was the, what was it, head of the prison salon, right? Kind of stereotypical there.

So I can see how in that milieu, in that sort of culture, that thinking, yeah, sure, we'll put this in.

So somebody flipped it in, right? It wasn't part of the original talk meeting.