Laverne Cox on Possibly Leaving U.S. After Trump Win, Hoarding Estrogen and Being ‘So Scared’ for Trans Youth
Marc Malkin Senior Editor, Culture and Events Laverne Cox was home alone on Tuesday night watching news coverage of the election.
But she decided to turn it off when it seemed certain Donald Trump would be re-elected, after it didn’t look like Kamala Harris could win Pennsylvania. “He had something like 246 electors.
I was just like I’m out,” Cox tells on a new special episode of the “Just for Variety” podcast. “I cried.” She adds with a laugh, “Then I watched ‘Daredevil’ and ‘The Defenders’ on Disney+.” In the months and days leading up to the election, Trump and his running mate J.D.
Vance flooded the campaign trail with anti-trans ads and rhetoric. I talked to Cox on Thursday morning over Zoom for a special episode of “Just for Variety” to get her insight on what a second Trump presidency could mean for the trans community in and out of Hollywood.
