Caroline Framke Chief TV CriticLaverne Cox has been one of the most visible trans people in the world for the better part of a decade.
After landing a role on Netflix’s “Orange is the New Black” in 2013 and being the first trans person on the cover of “Time” to illustrate what the magazine called “the transgender tipping point” in 2014, Cox put a face to a long derided community that was long overdue such consideration.Today, Cox is both more hopeful and more concerned than ever about the future of trans liberation.
On the one hand, onscreen trans representation has never been more visible or more nuanced. Cox herself was recently announced as E!’s new leading red carpet correspondent, ensuring that her perspective will shape every major,.