Laverne Cox: I’m beautiful because I’m trans, not beautiful despite being trans

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Laverne Cox: I'm beautiful because I'm trans, not beautiful despite being trans

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2015/09/13/laverne-cox-im-beautiful-because-im-trans-not-beautiful-despite-being-trans/

Pink News/by Nick Duffy   09/13/2015

"She explained starting the Twitter hashtag #TransIsBeautiful, to challenge perceptions of 'conventional' beauty.

Cox said: "I started a hashtag earlier this year called #transisbeautiful
"And I started that because years ago, at the beginning of my transition, I would walk down the street and I would hear people yell, That's a man. And I would be devastated. Because here I was, I had finally accepted my womanhood, and the world was not reflecting that back on me and I was devastated. "