Laverne Cox Gives Powerful Speech Against Trump Agenda at SCAD TVfest: ‘They Are Committed to Eradicating Trans People from Public Life’
Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large Laverne Cox got the SCAD TVfest crowd to its feet on Friday evening, as the star delivered a powerful, emotional speech about the new Trump administration’s attack on trans rights, civil rights and destruction of regulations in order to enrich the billionaires now in office.
Taking the stage to accept SCAD’s Impact Award, before premiering two episodes of her new Amazon Prime Video series “Clean Slate,” Cox delivered a call to action while also admitting the frightening truth that at the moment, “it might be too little, too late.” “The system is rigged in favor of corporations, plutocrats, oligarchs, the wealthy,” she said. “It might not be the time for us to be able to rise up not only as trans people, but as working people, as people of color.
People with the capacity for pregnancy, people who really just want to get a no fault divorce. And so many other things.” Cox noted that Trump ran on a platform that could easily be interpreted as white supremacist. “The Project 2025 agenda is a Christian nationalist agenda, if you read the text,” she noted. “And their form of Christian nationalism is a white Christian nationalism.
It is a Christian nationalism with the man, the patriarch, as the head of the household, after God, and women being subservient, women not being able to get a divorce, women not being able to get an abortion, and people with ectopic pregnancy not being able to get an abortion.
