Laverne Cox said she cried watching President-elect Donald Trump’s election win over Vice President Kamala Harris last week, and that her main interaction on the solemn evening was with a friend who voted for the Republican.
The Mobile, Alabama native, 52, told the podcast Just for Variety Thursday about the moment she knew Trump would win and the surprising nature of her chat with her friend.
The Emmy-nominated actress told the podcast, she ‘was just like “I’m out”‘ when Trump ‘had something like 246 electors.’
The transgender actress, who played Sophia Burset on 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 in the night.’
The Inventing Anna star described her friend as ‘a cisgender, straight, white male’ who showed empathy toward her amid the politically-turbulent times.
Laverne Cox, 52, said she cried watching Donald Trump ‘s election win over Kamala Harris last week, and that her main interaction on the solemn evening was with a friend who voted for the Republican. Pictured last month in LA
‘It’s really interesting and really complicated,’ Cox said, ‘because this friend of mine said to me that they were sad. As everybody at their job was celebrating Trump winning, he was sad for me.
Cox said, ‘He does care about me and he does love me, and he was sad for me,’ adding she found the back-and-forth to be ‘interesting,’
Cox spoke candidly about the potential medical issues she and other transgender people face should Trump and his administration seek 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 I get hot flashes. It’s really bad. I have to take estrogen just for health.’
Cox said she didn’t ‘know if that’s going to be possible anymore’ and has already began exploring contingency plans.
‘There’s a website I’ve gone to already,’ Cox said. ‘I haven’t bought any yet because I’m talking to my doctor to make sure it’s all reputable and good product. But, yeah, I’m gonna hoard a bunch of estrogen.’
Cox added that ‘t’s a little trickier for trans men because testosterone is a controlled substance … but there are resources online.’
Cox told Variety she and several transgender friends are worried about the incoming administration’s anti-trans rhetoric and are considering leaving the country.
Trump will become the 47th president of the U.S. after defeating Kamala Harris in a landslide last Tuesday; pictured last week in Pittsburgh
Cox opened up about the possibility of leaving the country in a new interview with Variety; she is seen in New York last month
‘We’re doing research on different cities in Europe and in the Caribbean,’ said Cox, who went as far as comparing the Trump administration’s anti-LGBTQIA+ rhetoric to the German Reich of the early 1900s.
She explained: ‘There was this a thriving community of queer people in Berlin pre the rise of Nazism. They attacked Jewish folks. They attacked immigrants, they attacked queer and trans people.
‘I don’t want to be in too much fear, but I’m scared. As a public figure, with all my privilege, I’m scared, and I’m particularly scared because I’m a public figure. I feel like I could be targeted. I think they spent close to $100 million on anti-trans ads. It’s deeply concerning.’
Trump will become the 47th president of the U.S. after defeating Harris in a landslide last Tuesday, garnering 312 electoral college votes to Harris’ 226.
On the campaign trail, Trump stressed he would immediately upend Title IX protections President Joe Biden implemented this past April focused on shielding transgender students from being discriminated against in the educational system.
Trump told the Philadelphia radio show Kayal and Company on May 10: ‘We’re gonna end it on day one – don’t forget, that was done as an order from the president. That came down as an executive order. And we’re gonna change it – on day one it’s gonna be changed.’
Trump also used the issue in a prominent ad in the election, as a narrator in a commercial said, ‘Kamala is for they/them – President Trump is for you.’
Trump remained outspoken about his stance on transgender issues throughout his latest campaign, as he unveiled another dramatic plan during an all-female Fox News town hall on The Faulkner Focus October 16.
The transgender actress said she didn’t call anyone on election night but ‘had been texting with someone who voted for Trump earlier in the night.’ Pictured in September in LA
When asked what he would do ‘about the transgender issue in women’s sports,’ Trump said he plans to ‘just ban it.’
‘It’s such an easy question,’ he said as he smiled. ‘Everybody in the room and you know that answer, we’re not going to let it happen.
‘Just yesterday they had a volleyball match, did you see that? Where a person that transitioned, we have to be very careful because this can terminate your political career if you say it slightly off, but transitioned from man to female,’ the president-elect said.
The former president was seemingly referencing Blaire Fleming, a San Jose State University (SJSU) volleyball player who is reportedly transgender.
Fleming, a redshirt senior, has been cited as the reason four schools have forfeited matches against SJSU so far this season because of safety concerns.
Last month, Fleming went viral for spiking a ball, which hit another player forcefully in the face.
Trump said of the play: ‘I saw the slam, I never saw a ball hit so hard, hit the girl on the head.
‘Other people even in volleyball they’ve been permanently, hurt really badly. We absolutely stop it. You can’t have it. It’s a man playing in the game.’
Trump has remained outspoken about what his plans are for the transgender society in the U.S., as he said he would ‘just ban’ transgender women from participating in sports. Pictured in Florida after his win early Wednesday
Fox News host Harris Faulkner then hopped in and pressed Trump further on the topic.
Faulkner asked: ‘So how do you stop it? Do you go to the sports leagues? Go to the Olympic counsel?’
Trump quickly responded, ‘You just ban it – the president bans it, you just don’t let it happen’ to which the crowd of women erupted in praise.
Meanwhile, his former opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, expressed an opposite opinion during an interview that same day.
Fox News host Bret Baier inquired about whether Harris supports taxpayer-funded sex surgeries for trans inmates and illegal immigrants during his highly-anticipated interview.
‘Every transgender inmate in the prison system would have access,’ Harris was seen saying in 2019, a statement which was repurposed by the Trump campaign into an ad attacking the Democrat during the election cycle.
Baier asked her if she still holds the same beliefs: ‘So are you still in support of using taxpayer dollars to help prison inmates or detained illegal aliens to transition to another gender?’
Harris answered 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 U.S. after defeating Vice President Kamala Harris in a landslide, garnering 312 electoral college votes to Harris’ 226. Pictured during the September 10 debate in Philadelphia
On the campaign trail, Trump stressed he would immediately upend Title IX protections President Joe Biden implemented this past April focused on shielding transgender students from being discriminated against in the educational system
‘You’re probably familiar with now, it’s a public report that under Donald Trump’s administration, these surgeries were available on a medical necessity basis to people in the federal prison system,’ she added.
The law she spoke of referred to the policy set in place 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 it’s required based on an individual’s needs.
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