Laverne Cox Shares Details Of Transphobic Attack: “If You’re Trans, You’re Going To Experience Stuff Like This” - Deadline

Cox felt that if the man wanted to ask her the “guy or girl” question and believed it was a way to target her as a trans woman.

Who cares if I’m trans.

As a trans woman, Cox knows what its like being harassed and bullied nearly all her life.

If you’re trans, you’re going to experience stuff like this.” Cox added, “It’s not your fault that there are people not cool with you existing in the world.

It also comes after a year when trans people — specifically trans women of color — are being attacked murdered.

People Nina Pop, Summer Taylor, Dustin Parker and Yunieski Carey Hererra are just the start of a long list of trans people that have been murdered — and the numbers continue to grow.

According to Transrespect versus Transphobia Worldwide’s Trans Murder Monitoring Project, there has been a total of 350 murders of trans and gender-diverse people between October 1, 2019 and September 30, 2020