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Laverne Cox: Creating the Change in 2014
Imagine yourself waking up -every morning- and realizing that you have to literally avoid death from the moment you walk outside till the time you are supposedly safe at home. Imagine that you’re told -every day- by many people, who you love, that you’re a sin and that you will burn in hell. Imagine that -every day- the people you thought cared for you turn you away and threaten you if you don't change, for some people that is something they can never even begin to understand, but now imagine it happening to someone for their entire life. Being transgender is more than just a man or woman dressing up as the opposite gender, being transgender is having the gender assigned at birth differ than the gender someone actually is primarily based off of one's reproductive organs. Laverne Cox, a transgender woman and actress, gives a powerful speech during ‘Creating Change 2014’ (an organization that brings awareness to the LGBT community). She speaks on the violent injustices and police discrimination against the lives of transgender women of color, as a way to spread awareness of the inequalities of transgender within the LGBT community to those who feel …show more content…
Her beginning statement in regards to this incident was “Some days, I wake up and I have heard about another one of my transgender sisters who has been assaulted, raped, murdered.” and then proceeded to go in depth about Cece’s case. Cox uses the experience of this woman to create an emotional connection to the viewers since the natural human reaction to pain and torment is

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