Laverne Cox said she cried watching President-elect Donald Trump’s election victory over Vice President Kamala Harris last week, and that her main interaction at the solemn evening was with a friend who voted for the Republican.
The 52-year-old Mobile, Alabama, native told the podcast Just for variety Thursday about the moment she learned Trump would win and the surprising nature of her chat with her friend.
The Emmy-nominated actress said on the podcast that she “was like ‘I’m out'” when Trump “had something like 246 electors.”
The transgender actress, who played Sophia Burset in the Netflix hit Orange Is the New Black, said she didn’t call anyone but “had been texting with someone who voted for Trump earlier that night.”
The Inventing Anna star described her friend as “a white, straight, cisgender man” who showed empathy toward her amid politically turbulent times.
Laverne Cox, 52, said she cried watching Donald Trump’s election victory over Kamala Harris last week, and that her main interaction at the solemn evening was with a friend who voted for the Republican. Photographed last month in Los Angeles.
“It’s really interesting and really complicated,” Cox said, “because a friend of mine told me they were sad.” While everyone at work was celebrating Trump’s victory, he was sad for me.
Cox said, “He cares about me and loves me, and he was sad for me,” adding that he found the exchange “interesting.”
Cox spoke candidly about the potential medical problems she and other transgender people would face if Trump and his administration attempted to implement restrictions on essential treatments.
“I’m done with my medical transition, but I have to take estrogen for the rest of my life,” Cox said. ‘If I stop doing it, I get hot flashes. It’s really bad. I have to take estrogen only for health reasons.’
Cox said he “didn’t know if that would be possible again” and had already begun exploring contingency plans.
“I’ve already visited a website,” Cox said. ‘I haven’t bought any yet because I’m talking to my doctor to make sure it’s a good, reputable product. But yes, I will accumulate a lot of estrogen.
Cox added that “it’s a little more complicated for trans men because testosterone is a controlled substance… but there are resources online.”
Cox told Variety that she and several transgender friends are concerned about the incoming administration’s anti-trans rhetoric and are considering leaving the country.
Trump will become the 47th president of the United States after overwhelmingly defeating Kamala Harris last Tuesday; photographed last week in Pittsburgh
Cox spoke about the possibility of leaving the country in a new interview with Variety; She is seen in New York last month
“We’re looking at different cities in Europe and the Caribbean,” said Cox, who went so far as to compare the Trump administration’s anti-LGBTQIA+ rhetoric to the German Reich of the early 20th century.
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 defeating Harris in a landslide last Tuesday, winning 312 electoral college votes to Harris’ 226.
During the election campaign, Trump emphasized that he would immediately roll back Title IX protections that President Joe Biden implemented last April and focused on protecting transgender students from discrimination in the education system.
Trump told the Philadelphia radio show Kayal and Company on May 10: “We’re going to get this over with on day one; don’t forget, that was done as an order from the president.” That became an executive order. And we are going to change it; “On the first day it will be changed.”
Trump also used the theme in a prominent election ad, as a narrator in one commercial said: “Kamala is for them – President Trump is for you.”
Trump remained outspoken about his stance on transgender issues throughout his latest campaign, when he revealed another dramatic plan during an all-female Fox News town hall on The Faulkner Focus on October 16.
The transgender actress said she didn’t call anyone on election night, but “had been texting with someone who voted for Trump that same night.” Photographed in September in Los Angeles.
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.
‘Just yesterday they had a volleyball game, did you see it? “When a person makes 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,” said the president-elect.
The former president was apparently referencing Blaire Fleming, a volleyball player at San Jose State University (SJSU) who is reportedly transgender.
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.
Last month, Fleming went viral for spiking a ball, which hit another player hard in the face.
Trump said of the play: “I saw the slam, 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. We absolutely stop it. You can’t have it. He is a man who participates in the game.
Trump has been outspoken about what his plans are for transgender society in the United States, saying he would “simply ban” transgender women from participating in sports. Photographed in Florida after his victory early Wednesday morning.
Fox News host Harris Faulkner weighed in and pressed Trump further on the issue.
Faulkner asked: ‘So how can this be stopped? Do you go to sports leagues? Go to the Olympic council?
Trump quickly responded, “Just ban it; the president bans it, just don’t let it happen,” to which the crowd of women erupted in praise.
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, a statement the Trump campaign repurposed in an ad attacking the Democrat during the election cycle.
Baier asked him if he still holds the same beliefs: “So, do you still support using taxpayer money to help prisoners or detained illegal aliens transition to another gender?”
Harris responded without saying what she personally believes: “I will follow the law, a law that Donald Trump actually followed.”
Trump will become the 47th president of the US after defeating Vice President Kamala Harris in a landslide, winning 312 electoral college votes to Harris’ 226. Pictured during the September 10 debate in Philadelphia
During the election campaign, Trump emphasized that he would immediately roll back Title IX protections that President Joe Biden implemented last April and focused on protecting transgender students from discrimination in the education system.
“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 an individual’s needs.
