Star of Orange Is the New Black and the upcoming Rocky Horror Picture Show TV spectacular Laverne Cox is beautiful, successful, and supremely confident. She slays. But it wasn’t always so.
As she relates in this video created in partnership between Lifetime and Variety’s Power of Women project, she was bullied throughout her youth for being different. As the trans activist tells it, she was accosted and assaulted almost every day on her way home from school. But it seems she doesn’t want you to think of it as “bullying” though. She’s got a better, more effective word for it: Violence.
Take a minute out to hear her explanation and learn all about the cause closest to her heart in the video above.