Laverne Cox has broken her silence on whether or not she will leave the US after Donald Trump‘s election win.
The 52-year-old transgender actress – who recently hit the red carpet of the InStyle Imagemaker Awards – opened up about the possibility of leaving the country in a new interview with Variety.
The Orange Is The New Black star revealed that she and several transgender friends are worried about the Trump campaign’s anti-trans rhetoric and are considering making an exodus from the US.
She said: ‘We’re doing research on different cities in Europe and in the Caribbean.’
Laverne went as far as comparing the Trump administration’s anti-LGBTQIA+ rhetoric to the German Reich of the early 1900s.
Laverne Cox has broken her silence on whether or not she will leave the US after Donald Trump’s election win
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 US after defeating Kamala Harris in a landslide last Tuesday.
Trump has remained outspoken about his stance on the transgender society in America, as he unveiled his dramatic plan during an all-female Fox News town hall on The Faulkner Focus just weeks before he was re-elected.
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.
The 52-year-old transgender actress opened up about the possibility of leaving the country in a new interview with Variety ; she is seen in New York last month
Trump will become the 47th president of the US after defeating Kamala Harris in a landslide last Tuesday; he is seen with wife Melania Trump and 18-year-old son Barron
‘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 added.
The former president was seemingly referencing Blaire Fleming, a San Jose State University (SJSU) volleyball player.
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.
Most recently they went viral for spiking a ball and hitting another player forcefully in the face. Even the broadcaster noted the woman’s pink face after she was hit.
‘And I saw the slam,’ Trump told the crowd of women. ‘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,’ he continued.
‘We absolutely stop it. You can’t have it. It’s a man playing in the game.’
Faulkner then hopped in and pressed Trump further on the topic.
Trump has remained outspoken about what his plans are for the transgender society in the US, as he said he would ‘just ban’ transgender women from participating in sports
‘So how do you stop it? Do you go to the sports leagues? Go to the Olympic counsel?’ the Fox News host inquired.
‘You just ban it. The president bans it, you just don’t let it happen,’ Trump quickly responded.
The crowd of women erupted in praise for the ex-president’s policy proposal.
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, that has been repurposed by the Trump campaign into an ad attacking the Democrat.
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?’ Baier asked.
Harris answered without saying what she personally believes: ‘I will follow the law, a law that Donald Trump actually followed.’
‘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 individuals needs.
