Whether you're transgender or not, most of us get to a point in our lives where we can no longer lie to ourselves.
Laverne CoxWe are not what other people say we are. We are who we know ourselves to be, and we are what we love. That's okay.
Laverne CoxI'm so grateful that I had the luxury of transitioning in private. Because when you transition in the public eye, the transition becomes the story.
Laverne CoxMany 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. We need our cisgender allies - gay and straight - to treat transgender lives as if they matter, and trans people need multiple seats at the tables in the organizations that say they're interested in L.G.B.T. equality; this absence has been painful since Stonewall.
Laverne CoxIt is revolutionary for any trans person to choose to be seen and visible in a world that tells us we should not exist.
Laverne CoxI think transwomen, and transpeople in general, show everyone that you can define what it means to be a man or woman on your own terms. A lot of what feminism is about is moving outside of roles and moving outside of expectations of who and what you're supposed to be to live a more authentic life.
Laverne Cox