Posted on 12/01/2020 7:24:48 AM PST by Arones
Orange is the New Black star speaks of shock, saying: ‘You’re not safe if you are a trans person’
Laverne Cox, a star of Netflix’s Orange is the New Black, has spoken of her shock after she and a friend were targeted in a transphobic attack in Los Angeles.
In a 10-minute video posted on Instagram, Cox said she had been out for a walk with her friend when a man “aggressively” asked them for the time. As the friend was looking at their watch, Cox said the man asked her if she was a “guy or girl”.
The friend, whom Cox wished to keep anonymous, told the man to “f-off” and was then attacked by the man.
“I’m kind of in shock,” Cox said in the Instagram video. “I’m walking, I’m hearing all of this is happening like in a split second and then all of a sudden the guy is attacking my friend.
“I pull out my phone and call 911 … All of a sudden it’s over and the guy is gone. I put my phone away and I’m like: ‘What just happened?’”
Cox told her followers that the attack, though shocking, did not surprise her. “I have a long history of harassment,” she said. “It’s not safe in the world and I don’t like to think about that a lot but it is the truth. It’s the truth, you’re not safe if you are a trans person. Obviously, I know this well.”
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I think I’m more proud that Laverne Cox is from Alabama (Mobile) than Kaitlan Collins (Prattville, my neighboring town)...sigh
Great news and a blow against child abuse. However, I've heard that some courts allow parents to have addadicktome or takeadickfromme operations done to their children.
Prattville, my neighboring town
Are you from the Gump?
This is Trump country!
Bullsh!t.
These people lie all the time about these situations.
The self entiltled he/she/it probably said something smart assed to someone, and that someone responded in kind.
Just TRY to find a gif of “The Knockout Game”.
We all know the dozens that have been documented here over the years.
NONE show up on a search of Duckduckgo.
Censorship.
Asking if you are a “guy or a girl” is an attack worthy of calling 911?
But since he asked, Laverne Cox is a man. He was born a man, and will die a man.
A man in a wig wearing makeup will fit right in with the rest of the weirdos.
That look a lot like "gender assumption" right there.
No, born and raised in Tallassee (home of Alas Babylon), now living in Millbrook...
Now I’m day dreaming about Smokehouse Barbeque....
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