Laverne Cox has broken her silence on whether or not she will leave the United States following Donald Trump’s election victory.
The 52-year-old transgender actress, who recently walked the red carpet at the InStyle Imagemaker Awards, spoke about the possibility of leaving the country in a new interview with Variety.
The Orange Is The New Black star revealed that she and several transgender friends are concerned about the Trump campaign’s anti-trans rhetoric and are considering making an exodus from the United States.
She said: “We are doing research in different cities in Europe and the Caribbean.”
Laverne even went so far as to compare the Trump administration’s anti-LGBTQIA+ rhetoric to the German Reich of the early 20th century.
Laverne Cox has broken her silence on whether or not she will leave the United States following Donald Trump’s election victory.
She explained: “There was a thriving community of queer people in Berlin before the rise of Nazism. They attacked the Jews. They attacked immigrants, they attacked queer and trans people.
‘I don’t want to be too afraid, but I am afraid. As a public figure, with all my privileges, I am afraid, and I am especially afraid because I am a public figure. I feel like they could be a target. I think they spent close to $100 million on anti-trans ads. “It is deeply worrying.”
Trump will become the 47th president of the United States after overwhelmingly defeating Kamala Harris last Tuesday.
Trump has remained outspoken about his stance on transgender society in the United States, revealing his dramatic plan during an all-female Fox News town hall on The Faulkner Focus just weeks before he was re-elected.
Asked what he would do “about the transgender issue in women’s sports,” Trump said he plans to “just ban it.”
“It’s a very easy question,” he said while smiling.
‘Everyone in the room and you know that answer, we are not going to let that happen.
The 52-year-old transgender actress opened up about the possibility of leaving the country in a new interview with Variety; She is seen in New York last month
Trump will become the 47th president of the United States after overwhelmingly defeating Kamala Harris last Tuesday; He is seen with his wife Melania Trump and his 18-year-old son Barron.
‘Just yesterday they had a volleyball game, did you see it? When a person has made the transition, we have to be very careful because this can end his political career if he says it a little wrong, but he went from a man to a woman,’ added the president-elect.
The former president was apparently referencing Blaire Fleming, a volleyball player at San Jose State University (SJSU).
Fleming, a redshirt senior, has been cited as the reason four schools have lost games against SJSU so far this season due to safety concerns.
More recently they went viral for spiking a ball and forcefully hitting another player in the face. Even the announcer noticed the woman’s rosy face after the blow.
“And I saw the slam,” Trump told the crowd of women. “I never saw a ball hit so hard, hit the girl in the head.”
“Other people, even in volleyball, have been permanently injured and very seriously injured,” he continued.
‘We absolutely stop it. You can’t have it. He is a man who participates in the game.
Faulkner then intervened and pressed Trump further on the issue.
Trump has been outspoken about what his plans are for transgender society in the US, saying he would “simply ban” transgender women from participating in sports.
‘So how can it be stopped? Do you go to sports leagues? Go to the Olympic council? the Fox News host asked.
‘You just ban it. The president forbids it, you just don’t let it happen,” Trump quickly responded.
The crowd of women burst into praise for the former president’s political proposal.
Meanwhile, his former opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, expressed a contrary view during an interview earlier in the day.
Fox News host Bret Baier asked if Harris supports taxpayer-funded sex surgeries for trans inmates and illegal immigrants during his long-awaited interview.
“All transgender inmates in the prison system would have access,” Harris was seen saying in 2019, which the Trump campaign has repurposed in an ad attacking the Democrat.
Baier asked him if he still has the same beliefs.
‘So, you’re still in favor of using taxpayer money to help prisoners or detained illegal aliens transition to another gender?’ Baier asked.
Harris responded without saying what she personally believes: “I will follow the law, a law that Donald Trump actually followed.”
“You’re probably already familiar with a public report that under the Donald Trump administration, these surgeries were available based on medical need for people in the federal prison system,” he added.
The law she talked about concerned policy implemented under the Trump administration before she and Biden entered the White House.
The policy allows incarcerated transgender people to receive gender-affirming medical care if necessary based on individual needs.