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Laverne Coxis taking a stand against the Trump administration.
The administration alsoremoved informationabout trans health care from federal websites.
Cox went on to slam the anti-trans policies ramping up under Trump.
Laverne Cox at SCAD TVfest on Feb. 7, 2024.Credit:Bryan Bedder/Getty
“The Project 2025 agenda is a Christian nationalist agenda, if you read the text, right?”
The actress also railed against Democrats for not offering a radically different agenda from their Republican opponents.
Cox suggested that Democratic politicians have intentionally ignored trans people for the sake of avoiding “touchy” issues.
Laverne Cox in October 2024.Sean Zanni/Getty Images for MUGLER Fragrances
“Kamala Harris love her didn’t talk about trans people at all.
You’d never know it, based on what the Republicans were saying,” she said.
They are committed to eradicating trans people from public life.
They’ve said it blatantly.
They said it in everything that they have done.
This is not a distraction.
This is part of their agenda."
“They have been setting the agenda and leftists, Democrats have been responding.
We can set the agenda an agenda for working people, agenda for human rights and civil rights.”
“If that is the case, then what?
And to be honest, the ‘then what?,’ it actually excites me because ‘then what?’
is community,” she said.
“The ‘then what?’
They’re still human beings,” she said.
“We are all human.
Additional reporting by Patrick Gomez.
