Laverne Cox: “Being yourself, the most important thing”

“I always knew my life would become a rainbow story», Word of Laverne Cox, actress, Emmy nominee and transgender activist. On the occasion of the month of Pride 2021, Laverne was chosen by Sodastream to dress play the role of a rainbow superheroine – in the countryside Rainbow Story – to throw your message in support of LGBTQI + rights.

In the Laverne countryside she grows and overcomes, since childhood, the challenges that have made her the strong woman she is today, taking part in important LGBTQI + battles, celebrating personal achievements and setting firsts for the entire transgender community, as he also tells in this exclusive video interview for Vanityfair.it. «I am very excited », she says,« Watching the video of the campaign came back to my mind when I was young, the vision I had of my life and who I wanted to become … and I became lei. Thanks to the help I have received in my life from many amazing people, I became my personal superheroine ».

Thanks to the help of others, of course, but above all thanks to herself: «I have learned that one must always be the best version of themselves, be authentic, treat others well. And then heal from trauma ». And today his battle has become that of an entire community: “The biggest obstacle that trans people face, even today, globally is the assumption that we are always and only the gender assigned to us at birth, that trans women are not women, that trans men are not men, and that non-binary people don’t exist. This is the heart of all discrimination ”. Discriminations that we must overcome, in the name of inclusion and respect: “Transsexual people are who they say they are, and this applies to everyone. “