Yeah, tell that to the next person you punch in the face.
Via College Fix:
One of America’s most prominent transgender television stars is visiting U.S. campuses, encouraging students to accept, embrace and defend the transgender lifestyle – and they’re eating it up
“What I have to ask is, ain’t I a woman?” asked transgender actress Laverne Cox at George Washington University on Tuesday. In response, the packed auditorium resounded with frenzied cheers and screams.
“Oh my gosh I’m in love with her!” gushed one student in the audience, mirroring students’ comments on Twitter, such as: “I am so overwhelmed by words right now. She is an activist, icon, and woman for the ages” and “I will forever remember my claim to fame – when I handed Cox a water bottle onstage before GWU and the eyes of God.”
Cox visited the Washington D.C. campus for its “Trans Day of Visibility,” designed to celebrate and promote awareness of the LGBTQ community. And it’s not the only university the star will visit to urge college students to accept, embrace and fight for the transgender lifestyle. She’s on something of a campus tour.
The star of “Orange is the New Black” – the first trans-woman of color to have a leading role on a mainstream television show – also swung by the University of Pittsburgh on Monday to address a standing-room only crowd of college students. The week prior, Cox visited Canada on behalf of the University of Toronto, where the star reportedly spoke in front of 2,000 students and received three standing ovations. Back in January she was at Missouri State.
And the message the trans star is sharing with students all over North America does not mince words, at least if the comments at George Washington University on Tuesday are any indication.
“I’ve come to understand after all these years of experience that calling a transgender woman a man is an act of violence,” Cox said, and the audience went wild.